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25 — Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by ...
176 — Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of ...
395 — Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic ...
511 — King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St ...
602 — Byzantine Emperor Maurice is forced to watch as the usurper ...
1095 — Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of ...
1382 — Al-Salih Hajji, the last Qalawunid sultan, is deposed by ...
1542 — Palace plot of Renyin year: A group of Ming dynasty palace ...
1727 — The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin is laid.
1755 — An earthquake in northern Morocco devastates the cities of Fes ...
1809 — The Berners Street hoax is perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the ...
1815 — Adoption of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
1830 — Saint Catherine Labouré experiences a Marian apparition.
1835 — James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the ...
1839 — In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association ...
1856 — The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral ...
1863 — American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under ...
1863 — American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt ...
1868 — American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River: United States ...
1879 — War of the Pacific: Battle of Tarapacá: The confrontation ...
1895 — At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his ...
1896 — Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
1901 — The U.S. Army War College is established.
1912 — Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
1917 — P. E. Svinhufvud becomes the chairman of his first senate, ...
1918 — The Makhnovshchina is established.
1924 — In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day ...
1940 — World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal ...
1940 — In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinates ...
1942 — World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships ...
1944 — World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air ...
1945 — CARE (then the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) ...
1954 — Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for ...
1965 — Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. ...
1968 — Penny Ann Early becomes the first woman to play in a major ...
1971 — The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a ...
1973 — Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92–3 to ...
1975 — The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press ...
1978 — The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the ...
1978 — In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay ...
1983 — Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's ...
1984 — Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of ...
1985 — Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches on STS-61-B, with ...
1989 — Avianca Flight 203: A Boeing 727 explodes in mid-air over ...
1992 — For the second time in a year, military forces try to ...
1997 — Twenty-five people are killed in the second Souhane massacre ...
1999 — The centre-left Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand ...
2001 — A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet ...
2004 — Blackwater 61 crash: A CASA C-212 Aviocar crashes into the ...
2004 — Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom ...
2006 — The House of Commons of Canada approves a motion introduced by ...
2008 — XL Airways Germany Flight 888T: An Airbus A320 performing a ...
2009 — Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express ...
2015 — An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in ...
2020 — Days after the announcement of its discovery, the Utah ...
2020 — Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is ...
2024 — Syrian rebel groups led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham launch a ...