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Untitled Document 1997 President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery
1994 Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov and N Thagard
1994 Former West Australian premier Carmen Lawrence enters federal parliament through Fremantle by-election and records a 1.43 per...
1994 Flaming oil burns in the Bosporus Strait that divides Istanbul after a tanker and freighter collide, killing 15 crew members....
1991 World Ice Dance Championship in Munich won by Isabel and Phil Duchesnay (France)
1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment ...
1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
1990 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission
1983 OPEC cut oil prices for first time in 23 years
1978 Statistics Canada reports unemployment passed the 1,000,000 mark in February for the first time not bad for a population of ...
1978 Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)
1973 Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
1971 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV
1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France
1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA
1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal
1951 Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany
1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco
1946 Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1941 Xavier Cugat and his Orchestraestra record "Babalu"
1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen TX
1939 Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
1939 England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day
1937 Pope Pius XI publishes anti-Nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge
1936 Federal Register, first magazine of the US government, publishes first issue
1918 First concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, San Francisco
1915 In World War I, the German cruiser Dresden is sunk by the Royal Navy in the Pacific
1914 Serbia and Turkey sign peace treaty
1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt
1896 Sutro Baths (San Francisco) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952)
1891 The submarine Monarch lays telephone cable along the English Channel bed to prepare for the first telephone links across the ...
1864 Samuel Baker discovers another source of the Nile in East Africa and names it Lake Albert Nyanza.
1863 RADM Farragut's squadron of 7 ships forces way up Mississippi River to support Union troops at Vicksburg and Baton Rouge
1862 Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern
1843 James Douglas lands at Clover Point on Vancouver Island with 15 men to build new Hudson's Bay Company Fort Camosun (later Vic...
1843 Boston conducts its first town meeting (Faneuil Hall)
1840 José Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey", premieres in Madrid
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia
1800 Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII
1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
1743 First American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
1734 Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne
1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)


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