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Year 418

Pope Boniface I is elected.

Year 457

Majorian is acclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire and recognized by Emperor Leo I the Thracian.

Year 484

Alaric II succeeds his father Euric and becomes king of the Visigoths. He establishes his capital at Aire-sur-l'Adour (Southern Gaul).

Year 893

An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia.

Year 1065

Westminster Abbey is consecrated.

Year 1308

The reign of Emperor Hanazono of Japan begins.

Year 1768

King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.

Year 1795

Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto).

Year 1832

John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.

Year 1835

Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.

Year 1836

South Australia and Adelaide are founded.

Year 1836

Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico with the signing of the Santa María-Calatrava Treaty.

Year 1846

Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.

Year 1867

United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.

Year 1879

Tay Bridge disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.

Year 1885

Indian National Congress, a political party of India is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.

Year 1895

The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.

Year 1895

Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.

Year 1902

The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5-0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.

Year 1908

The 7.1 Mw Messina earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 75,000 and 200,000.

Year 1912

The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

Year 1918

Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.

Year 1941

World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.

Year 1943

World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

Year 1944

Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey.

Year 1948

The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami.

Year 1956

Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.

Year 1958

"Greatest Game Ever Played": Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.

Year 1973

The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.

Year 1989

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.

Year 2006

War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.

Year 2009

Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.

Year 2014

Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.

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