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Presidential inauguration of Manuel L. Quezon
Manuel L. Quezon
Deodoro da Fonseca
William Tecumseh Sherman
King James II
Pedro II of Brazil
Main façade of the Castellania Palace
Edoardo Agnelli
Xi Jinping
Buran
Detail from Fountain of Time sculpture
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Republic Day in
Brazil (
1889 )
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Shichi-Go-San in Japan
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1315 – A 1,500-strong
Swiss force
ambushed a group of Austrian soldiers of the
Holy Roman Empire on the shores of the
Ägerisee .
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1688 –
Prince William of Orange landed at
Brixham in
Devon , on his way
to depose his uncle and father-in-law King
James II , the last Catholic
monarch of England .
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1920 – The semi-autonomous
Free City of Danzig was created in order to give Poland access to a well-sized seaport.
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1968 –
Vietnam War : American forces launched
Operation Commando Hunt , a large-scale bombing campaign to prevent the
People's Army of Vietnam from transporting personnel and supplies along the
Ho Chi Minh trail .
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1971 –
Intel released the
4004 , the world's first commercially available
microprocessor , capable of executing approximately 60,000
instructions per second .
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1976 –
René Lévesque and the
Parti Québécois
took power to become the first
Quebec government of the 20th century that was clearly in favour of
independence from Canada .
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1983 –
Turkish Cypriots on the northeastern portion of
Cyprus declared the creation of a new state known as the
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus , which currently remains
recognised only by Turkey.
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1985 –
Northern Ireland peace process : British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher , and the
Irish Taoiseach
Garret FitzGerald signed the
Anglo-Irish Agreement , giving the
Irish Government an advisory role in Northern Ireland's government.
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565 –
Justin II became
Byzantine emperor, having allegedly been chosen by his uncle
Justinian I as his successor on his deathbed.
655 –
Penda of Mercia and
Æthelhere of East Anglia were defeated by
Oswiu of Northumbria at the
Battle of the Winwaed in
Yorkshire , England.
1760 – The chapel of the newly constructed
Castellania in
Valletta ,
Malta , was consecrated.
1864 –
American Civil War :
Union Army general
William Tecumseh Sherman began his
March to the Sea , inflicting significant damage to property and infrastructure using
scorched-earth tactics on his way from
Atlanta to
Savannah, Georgia .
1889 – Brazilian emperor
Pedro II
was overthrown in a coup led by
Deodoro da Fonseca , while the country was proclaimed
a republic .
1922 –
Fountain of Time (detail pictured) , in Chicago's
Washington Park , was dedicated as a tribute to 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the
Treaty of Ghent .
1935 – The
Commonwealth of the Philippines was officially established, with
Manuel L. Quezon inaugurated as
its president .
1959 – Two men
murdered a family in
Holcomb, Kansas ; the events became the subject of
Truman Capote 's non-fiction novel
In Cold Blood , a pioneering work of the
true crime genre.
1988 –
Palestine Liberation Organization leader
Yasser Arafat
proclaimed the creation of the
State of Palestine as "the state of
Palestinians wherever they may be".
2000 –
Edoardo Agnelli , son of the industrialist patriarch of
Fiat
Gianni Agnelli , was found dead under a bridge on the outskirts of
Turin .
2012 –
Xi Jinping replaced
Hu Jintao as
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , succeeding as the
paramount leader of China.
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Madeleine de Scudéry |b|1607|
Herman of Alaska |d|1836|
Georgia O'Keeffe |b|1887|
Claus von Stauffenberg |b|1907|
Émile Durkheim |d|1917|
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson |d|1959 |
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1859 – Sponsored by Greek businessman
Evangelos Zappas (pictured) , the
first modern revival of the
Olympic Games took place in Athens.
1908 – As a result of
numerous atrocities in the territory , the
Congo Free State was annexed to Belgium to form the
Belgian Congo .
1922 – During
a general strike in
Guayaquil , Ecuador, police and military fired into a crowd, killing at least 300 people.
1943 –
The Holocaust : In the
Romani Holocaust , Nazi official
Heinrich Himmler ordered that the
Romani were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in
concentration camps ".
1988 – The Soviet spacecraft
Buran , a reusable vehicle built in response to
NASA 's
Space Shuttle program , was launched, uncrewed, on its only flight.