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1339 — The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) ...
1472 — Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu ...
1521 — Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León sets out from San ...
1547 — Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster ...
1553 — Yohannan Sulaqa professes his Catholic belief and is ordained ...
1685 — René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda ...
1792 — The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post ...
1798 — Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
1813 — Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán ...
1816 — Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the ...
1824 — William Buckland formally announces the name Megalosaurus, the ...
1835 — The 1835 Concepción earthquake destroys Concepción, Chile.
1846 — Polish insurgents lead an uprising in Kraków to incite a fight ...
1864 — American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle ...
1865 — End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between ...
1872 — The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
1877 — Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at ...
1894 — 20 February bombings by Désiré Pauwels during the Ère des ...
1901 — The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first ...
1905 — The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of ...
1909 — Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le ...
1913 — King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark ...
1920 — An earthquake kills between 114 and 130 in Georgia and heavily ...
1931 — An anarchist uprising in Encarnación, Paraguay briefly ...
1931 — The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San ...
1933 — Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to ...
1933 — The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to repeal federal ...
1935 — Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in ...
1939 — Madison Square Garden Nazi rally: The largest ever pro-Nazi ...
1942 — World War II: Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes ...
1943 — The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman ...
1943 — World War II: American movie studio executives agree to allow ...
1944 — World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Atoll.
1944 — World War II: The "Big Week" begins with American ...
1952 — Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in ...
1956 — The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent ...
1959 — The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic ...
1962 — Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes ...
1965 — Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of ...
1968 — The China Academy of Space Technology, China's main arm ...
1971 — The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally ...
1979 — An earthquake cracks open the Sinila volcanic crater on the ...
1986 — The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in ...
1988 — The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from ...
1991 — In the Albanian capital Tirana, a gigantic statue of ...
1998 — American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, ...
2002 — A cooking gas cylinder explodes on board an Egyptian National ...
2003 — During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a ...
2005 — Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ...
2009 — Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route ...
2010 — In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and ...
2014 — Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters die in ...
2015 — Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as ...
2016 — Six people are killed and two injured in multiple shooting ...