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1244 — Pope Innocent IV arrives at Lyon for the First Council of Lyon.
1409 — The University of Leipzig opens.
1416 — Through the Council of Constance and diplomatic treaties in ...
1697 — St Paul's Cathedral, rebuilt to the design of Sir ...
1763 — Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, ...
1766 — Swedish parliament approves the Swedish Freedom of the Press ...
1804 — At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns ...
1805 — War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Austerlitz: French ...
1823 — Monroe Doctrine: In a State of the Union message, U.S. ...
1845 — Manifest Destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. ...
1848 — Franz Joseph I becomes Emperor of Austria.
1851 — French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the ...
1852 — Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French as ...
1859 — Origins of the American Civil War: Militant abolitionist ...
1865 — Alabama ratifies the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ...
1867 — At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens ...
1899 — Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, known as ...
1908 — Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.
1917 — World War I: Russia and the Central Powers sign an armistice ...
1927 — Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor ...
1930 — Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. ...
1939 — New York City's LaGuardia Airport opens.
1942 — World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by ...
1943 — World War II: A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, ...
1947 — Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Arabs riot in Jerusalem in response ...
1949 — Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and ...
1950 — Korean War: The Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River ends ...
1954 — The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United ...
1954 — Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure ...
1956 — The Granma reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente Province. ...
1957 — United Nations Security Council Resolution 126 relating to the ...
1961 — In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro ...
1962 — Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. ...
1968 — Wien Consolidated Airlines Flight 55 crashes into Pedro Bay, ...
1970 — The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins ...
1971 — Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm al-Quwain ...
1972 — Gough Whitlam is elected the 21st Prime Minister of Australia ...
1975 — Laotian Civil War: The Pathet Lao seizes the Laotian capital ...
1976 — Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo ...
1977 — A Tupolev Tu-154 crashes near Benghazi, Libya, killing 59.
1980 — Salvadoran Civil War: Four American missionaries are raped and ...
1982 — At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first ...
1988 — Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-27, a classified ...
1988 — Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, ...
1989 — The Peace Agreement of Hat Yai is signed and ratified by the ...
1990 — Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-35, carrying the ...
1991 — Canada and Poland become the first nations to recognize the ...
1992 — Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-53 for the United ...
1993 — Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle ...
1993 — Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed by police ...
1999 — The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern ...
2001 — Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2015 — San Bernardino attack: Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik ...
2016 — Thirty-six people die in a fire at a converted Oakland, ...
2020 — Cannabis is removed from the list of most dangerous drugs of ...