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Year 875

Charles the Bald, King of the Franks, is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor Charles II.

Year 1170

Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church.

Year 1427

The Ming army begins its withdraw from Hanoi, ending the Chinese domination of Đại Việt.

Year 1503

The Battle of Garigliano (1503) was fought between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo

Year 1508

Portuguese forces under the command of Francisco de Almeida attack Khambhat at the Battle of Dabul.

Year 1778

American Revolutionary War: Three thousand British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.

Year 1786

French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened.

Year 1812

The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three-hour battle.

Year 1835

The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.

Year 1845

In accordance with International Boundary delimitation, the United States annexes the Republic of Texas, following the manifest destiny doctrine. The Republic of Texas, which had been independent since the Texas Revolution of 1836, is thereupon admitted as the 28th U.S. state.

Year 1851

The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.

Year 1860

The launch of HMS Warrior, with her combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour, renders all previous warships obsolete.

Year 1874

The military coup of Gen. Martinez Campos in Sagunto ends the failed First Spanish Republic and Prince Alfonso is proclaimed King of Spain.

Year 1876

The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.

Year 1890

Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.

Year 1911

Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 9th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.

Year 1911

Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.

Year 1916

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914-15).

Year 1930

Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.

Year 1934

Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

Year 1937

The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.

Year 1940

World War II: In the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, killing almost 200 civilians.

Year 1949

KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.

Year 1972

Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101.

Year 1975

A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.

Year 1989

Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.

Year 1992

Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.

Year 1996

Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.

Year 1997

Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.

Year 1998

Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million lives.

Year 2003

The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.

Year 2006

UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.

Year 2011

Samoa and Tokelau skip straight to December 31 when moving from one side of the International Date Line to another.

Year 2012

A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured.

Year 2013

A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others.

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