1438 – The
Council of Basel suspends
Pope Eugene IV.
1458 –
Matthias I Corvinus becomes king of
Hungary.
1624 –
Afonso Mendes, appointed by
Pope Gregory XV as
Prelate of
Ethiopia, arrives at
Massawafrom
Goa.
1679 – King
Charles II of England dissolves the
Cavalier Parliament.
1742 –
Charles VII Albert becomes
Holy Roman Emperor.
1758 – During the
Seven Years' War the leading burghers of
Königsberg submit to
Elizabeth I of Russia, thus forming
Russian Prussia (until 1763)
1817 –
Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of
Juan Gregorio de las Heras are captured during the
Action of Picheuta.
1835 – Slaves in
Salvador da Bahia, Brazil,
stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.
1848 –
California Gold Rush:
James W. Marshall finds
gold at
Sutter's Mill near
Sacramento.
1857 – The
University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first fully-fledged university in
South Asia.
1859 – Political and state union of
Moldavia and
Wallachia;
Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as
Domnitor in both
Principalities.
1862 –
Bucharest is proclaimed the capital of
Romania.
1878 – The revolutionary
Vera Zasulich shoots at
Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of
Saint Petersburg.
1900 –
Second Boer War:
Boers stop a British attempt to break the
Siege of Ladysmith in the
Battle of Spion Kop.
1908 – The first
Boy Scout troop is organized in
England by
Robert Baden-Powell.
1911 – Japanese anarchist
Shūsui Kōtoku is hanged for treason in a case now considered a
miscarriage of justice.
1916 – In
Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the
Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal
income taxconstitutional.
1918 – The
Gregorian calendar is introduced in
Russia by decree of the
Council of People's Commissars effective
February 14(NS)
1933 – The
20th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing the beginning and end of terms for all elected federal offices.
1939 – The
deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes
Chillán, killing approximately 28,000 people.
1942 –
World War II: The
Allies bombard
Bangkok, leading
Thailand, then under Japanese control, to declare war against the
United States and
United Kingdom.
1943 –
World War II:
Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Winston Churchill conclude a
conference in Casablanca.
1946 – The
United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.
1947 – Greek banker
Dimitrios Maximos becomes
Prime Minister of Greece.
1960 –
Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in
Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
1961 –
1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
1968 –
Vietnam War: The
1st Australian Task Force launches
Operation Coburg against the
North Vietnamese Army and
Viet Congduring wider fighting around
Long Bình and
Biên Hòa
1972 –
Japanese Sgt.
Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a
Guam jungle, where he had been
since the end of World War II.
1977 –
Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the
Spanish transition to democracy.
1978 –
Soviet satellite
Cosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over
Canada's
Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
1984 – The first
Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
1986 –
Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 kilometres (50,600 mi) of
Uranus.
1990 –
Japan launches
Hiten, the country's first
lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the
Soviet Union's
Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the
United States.
1993 –
Turkish journalist and writer
Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a
car bomb in
Ankara.
1996 –
Polish Prime Minister Józef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for
Moscow.
2003 – The
United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
2009 – The storm
Klaus makes landfall near
Bordeaux,
France. It subsequently would cause 26 deaths as well as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies.
2011 – At least 35 die and 180 are injured in a
bombing at Moscow's
Domodedovo airport.
2014 – Three bombs
explode in the
Egyptian capital,
Cairo, killing about 7 people and injuring over 100 others.
2014 – The
Philippines and the
Bangsamoro agree to a
peace deal that would help end the 45-year conflict.
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