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1246: Death of St. Lutgard
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1373: Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest)
signed, London
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1456: The 25 year old judgement of heresy against Jeanne
d'Arc annulled
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1464: Death of Rogier Vander Weyden
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1483: Imprisonment of the Two Princes in the Tower
(England)
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1497: The body of Juan Borgia is recovered from the Tiber
river
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1567: Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle
prison.
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1602: Bartholomew Gosnold gives up his colonization efforts
in New England
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1641: Death of John Suckling
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1710: George Frederick Handel was hired to be
Kappellmeister at Hanover. He barely started work before he took a leave of
absence, and then another, to nurture a career in England. His employer, the
Elector of Hanover, followed him to London when he inherited the British
crown.
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1775: The Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's
Hill).
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1858: "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
" Abraham Lincoln, Senate candidate, made this statement in a speech in
Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be
resolved.
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1879: Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore"
debuts at the Bowery Theatre New York City.
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1883: First baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams vs
Cleveland Spiders).
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1897: The U. S. government signed a treaty of annexation
with Hawaii.
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1903: First Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over
the White Sox.
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1903: The Ford Motor Company is started.
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1904: James Joyce met his future wife, Nora, for the second
time and fell in love. He later chose the date as the single-day setting for
his novel, "Ulysses".
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1917: The first Congress of Soviets was convened in Russia.
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1933: The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
created (FDIC).
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1933: National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later
struck down).
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1937: Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens
in LA.
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1941: First US federally owned airport opened Washington,
D.C.
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1947: First network news - Dumont's "News from
Washington".
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1947: Pravda denounces the Marshall Plan.
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1949: Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie,
PA.
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1953: Despite Johnny Mize 2000th hit Yanks lose ending 18
game win streak.
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1955: Pope Pius the 12th excommunicated Argentine President
Juan Domingo Peron -- a ban that was lifted eight years later
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1961: Rudolf Nureyev, Soviet ballet dancer, defects to the
West.
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1963: Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli
prime minister.
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1963: Valentina V. Tereshkova becomes the first woman in
space aboard Vostok 6.
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1970: Kenneth A. Gibson of Newark, New Jersey, became the
first black to win a mayoral election in a major Northeast city.
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1976: US ambassador to Lebanon kidnapped and killed.
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1977: Werner von Braun dies at 65 from smoking.
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1977: Ron Guidry's first complete game 7-0 over the Royals.
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1977: Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid
Brezhnev was named president, becoming the first person to hold both posts
simultaneously.
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1978: Tom Seaver no hits St Louis Cards.
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1978: President Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos
exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties.
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1982: Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of
prisoners.
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1986: South African blacks marked the 10th anniversary of
the Soweto uprising with a one-day strike. 11 blacks were killed in the
resulting violence.
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1987: Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun
possession
charges after shooting four youths who tried to rob him.
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1989: Hungarians paid homage to former premier Imre Nagy
and four associates who were executed for leading the anti-Soviet revolt of
1956.
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1990: A crowd in the Netherlands welcomed African National
Congress leader Nelson Mandela, who thanked them for staunch Dutch support
for the anti-apartheid movement.
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1991: The 7th International Conference on "AIDS"
opened in Florence, Italy, with pleas from African and Asian countries for
more help and criticism directed at the United States for its refusal to
allow visits by foreigners infected with AIDS.
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1992: President Bush and Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin
capped the first day of their Washington summit by announcing their
countries had agreed to slash their long-range nuclear arsenals by
two-thirds.
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1992: Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was
indicted on felony charges in the Iran-Contra affair (he was later pardoned
by President Bush).
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1993: An all Leonard Bernstein program began by the New
York Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Slatkin. The program
included "Fanfare for Bima," "Simple Song" from
"Mass," "Opening Prayer" from "Jubilee Games,"
and the dance music "Fancy Free,".
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1993: The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to give
Haiti's military rulers one week to restore exiled President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide to power, or face an embargo on oil and weapons.
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1994: Former President Jimmy Carter, on a private visit to
North Korea, reported the Communist nation's leaders were eager to resume
talks with the United States on resolving disputes about Pyongyang's nuclear
program and improving relations.
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1995: Bosnian government forces aided by Bosnian Croats
unleashed a major offensive in hopes of breaking the Serb stranglehold on
Sarajevo.
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1995: Salt Lake City, Utah, was awarded the 2002 Winter
Olympic Games.
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1995: On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
closed above 4,500 for the first time, ending the day at 4,510.79.
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1996: Russian voters went to the polls in their first
independent presidential election; the result was a runoff between President
Boris Yeltsin (the eventual winner) and Communist challenger Gennady
Zyuganov.
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1996: The Chicago Bulls won the NBA championship, beating
the Seattle SuperSonics in game six, 87-to-75.
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1996: Sportscaster Mel Allen died in Greenwich,
Connecticut, at age 83.
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1998: Massachusetts' highest court cleared the way for
Louise Woodward to return home to England, upholding a judge's ruling that
freed the au pair convicted of killing a baby.
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1998: The Detroit Red Wings took home the Stanley Cup for
the second consecutive year after completing a sweep of the Washington
Capitals with a 4-to-1 victory in game four.
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1999: Vice President Al Gore announced his candidacy for
the Democratic presidential nomination.
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1999: Kathleen Ann Soliah, a fugitive member of the
Symbionese Liberation Army, was captured in St. Paul, Minn., where she was
living as Sara Jane Olson.
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1999: Thabo Mbeki took the oath as president of South
Africa, succeeding Nelson Mandela.
2000: Federal regulators approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corporation, creating the nation's largest local phone company.
2000: Raynard Johnson, 17, was found hanging from a tree in Marion County, Mississippi; investigators later ruled it a suicide, not a lynching.
2000: Empress dowager Nagako, widow of Japan's Emperor Hirohito, died in Tokyo at age 97.