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Year 366

Pope Damasus I is elected.

Year 959

Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England.

Year 965

Pope John XIII is elected.

Year 1553

Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.

Year 1588

Coronation of Shah Abbas I of Persia.

Year 1730

Ahmed III is forced to give up the throne.

Year 1787

Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.

Year 1791

First session of the French Legislative Assembly.

Year 1795

The Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgium) are annexed by Revolutionary France.

Year 1800

Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso.

Year 1814

Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon the previous spring.

Year 1827

Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination of Armenia.

Year 1829

South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; it will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.

Year 1832

Texian political delegates convene at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas.

Year 1843

The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.

Year 1854

The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.

Year 1861

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day

Year 1880

First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.

Year 1887

Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.

Year 1890

Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.

Year 1891

Stanford University opens its doors in California.

Year 1898

The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.

Year 1903

Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.

Year 1908

Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.

Year 1910

Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, killing 21.

Year 1918

World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia", capture Damascus.

Year 1918

Sayid Abdullah becomes last Khan of Khiva.

Year 1920

Sir Percy Cox lands in Basra to assume his responsibilities as High Commissioner in Iraq.

Year 1928

The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.

Year 1931

The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.

Year 1931

Spain adopts women's suffrage.

Year 1936

Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.

Year 1937

The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.

Year 1938

Germany annexes the Sudetenland.

Year 1939

After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile Nazi forces enter the city.

Year 1940

The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.

Year 1942

World War II: USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong

Year 1943

World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.

Year 1946

Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg trials.

Year 1946

Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied occupied Korea.

Year 1947

The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.

Year 1949

The People's Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.

Year 1955

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is established.

Year 1957

First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.

Year 1958

NASA is created to replace NACA.

Year 1960

Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.

Year 1961

The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization.

Year 1961

East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.

Year 1962

First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

Year 1964

The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.

Year 1964

Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.

Year 1965

General Suharto puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia.

Year 1966

West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.

Year 1968

The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).

Year 1969

Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.

Year 1971

Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.

Year 1971

The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.

Year 1975

The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.

Year 1975

Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.

Year 1975

Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T. & the M.G.'s), is fatally shot five times in the back in his own home.

Year 1978

Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.

Year 1978

The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.

Year 1979

Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.

Year 1979

The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.

Year 1979

The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama.

Year 1982

Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a constructive vote of no confidence.

Year 1982

Epcot opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.

Year 1982

Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).

Year 1985

The Israeli Air Force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) headquarters in Tunis.

Year 1987

The 5.9 Mw Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley with a Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 200.

Year 1989

Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership".

Year 1991

The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.

Year 1992

Cartoon Network is launched.

Year 1994

Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).

Year 2001

Militants attack the state legislature building in Srinagar, Kashmir, killing 38.

Year 2009

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.

Year 2012

A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.

Year 2014

A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in the village of Gorni Lom in Northwestern Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.

Year 2015

Umpqua Community College shooting: A gunman kills nine people at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon.

Year 2015

Heavy rains trigger a major landslide in the village of El Cambray Dos within Santa Catarina Pinula, killing 280 people.

Year 2017

An independence referendum, declared illegal by the Constitutional Court of Spain, takes place in Catalonia, Spain.

Year 2017

Fifty-eight people are killed and 546 others injured in a mass shooting on a country music festival at the Las Vegas Strip; the gunman, Stephen Paddock, later commits suicide.

Year ?

Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.

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