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Year 461
Majorian is arrested near Tortona (northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.
Year 1274
Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later.
Year 1343
After the execution of her husband, Jeanne de Clisson sells her estates and raises a force of men with which to attack French shipping and ports.
Year 1377
Russian troops are defeated by forces of the Blue Horde Khan Arapsha in the Battle on Pyana River.
Year 1610
During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay.
Year 1798
French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
Year 1869
Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
Year 1870
Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
Year 1873
The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
Year 1897
Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
Year 1916
World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
Year 1923
Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
Year 1934
Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
Year 1937
The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
Year 1939
Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
Year 1943
Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
Year 1943
World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
Year 1944
ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
Year 1944
World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
Year 1947
A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
Year 1968
An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
Year 1973
A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
Year 1980
A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
Year 1985
Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
Year 1989
Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
Year 1989
A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
Year 2005
Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.
Year 2014
At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.
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A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
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The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.
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The armies of Titus destroy the Second Temple as the final blow of the Siege of Jerusalem.