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== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
-*[[1724]] - ''[[Tumult of Thorn]]'' - religious unrest followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of [[Toruń|Thorn (Toruń)]] by Polish authorities. 
-*[[1732]] - The [[Royal Opera House]] opens at [[Covent Garden]], [[London]]. 
-*[[1776]] - [[Marquis de Lafayette]] attempts to enter the American military as a major general. 
-*[[1787]] - [[Delaware]] becomes the first state to ratify the [[US Constitution]]. 
-*[[1815]] - [[Michel Ney]], [[Marshal of France]], is executed by [[firing squad]] after having been convicted of [[treason]] for his support of [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon I]]. 
-*[[1826]] - [[Malacca High School]] ([[SMK Tinggi Melaka]]) is established in [[Melaka]] ([[Malacca]]), [[Malaysia]]. 
-*[[1889]] - [[The Gondoliers]] - one of the most popular of the comic operas created by [[W. S. Gilbert]] and [[Arthur Sullivan]] - opens in London 
-*[[1900]] - [[Max Planck]], in his house at [[Grunewald]], on the outskirts of [[Berlin]], discovers the law of [[black body]] emission. 
-*[[1917]] - [[World War I]]: The [[US]] declares war on [[Austria-Hungary]]. 
-*[[1930]] - [[W1XAV]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] broadcasts video from the [[CBS]] radio orchestra program, ''[[The Fox Trappers]]''. The broadcast also includes the first [[television commercial]] in the [[United States]], an advertisement for [[I.J. Fox Furriers]], who sponsored the radio show. 
-*[[1941]] - [[World War II]]: [[Canada]] declares war on [[Finland]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], and [[Japan]]. 
-* 1941 - [[World War II]]: [[Attack on Pearl Harbor]] - The [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] attacks the [[US Pacific Fleet]] and its defending [[US Army Air Forces|Army Air Forces]] and Marine air forces at [[Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]]. 
-*[[1946]] - A fire at the [[Winecoff Hotel]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]] kills 119 people. 
-*[[1949]] - [[Chinese Civil War]]: The government of [[Republic of China]] moves from [[Nanking]] to [[Taipei]]. 
-*[[1962]] - Prince [[Rainier III, Prince of Monaco|Rainier III]] of [[Monaco]] revises the [[principality]]'s [[Constitution of Monaco|constitution]], devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils. 
-*[[1965]] - [[Pope Paul VI]] and [[Patriarch Athenagoras]] simultaneously lift mutual [[excommunication]]s that had been in place since [[1054]]. 
-*[[1966]] - A fire at an army barracks in [[Erzurum]], [[Turkey]] kills 68 people. 
-*[[1970]] - The first ever general election on the basis of direct adult franchise is held in [[Pakistan]] for 313 National Assembly seats. 
-*[[1971]] - [[Pakistan]] President [[Yahya Khan]] announces formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and [[Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto]] as Vice-Prime Minister. 
-*[[1972]] - [[Apollo 17]], the last [[Apollo program|Apollo moon mission]], is launched. The crew take the photograph known as "[[The Blue Marble]]" as they leave the Earth. 
-*[[1975]] - [[Indonesia]] invades [[East Timor]]. 
-*[[1982]] - In [[Texas]], [[Charles Brooks, Jr.]] becomes the first person to be [[capital punishment|executed]] by [[lethal injection]] in the [[US]]. 
-*[[1983]] - An [[Iberia Airlines]] [[Boeing 727]] collides with an [[Aviaco]] [[McDonnell Douglas DC-9|DC-9]] in intense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at [[Madrid Barajas International Airport]], killing 93 people. 
-*[[1987]] - [[PSA Flight 1771|Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771]] crashes near [[Paso Robles, California]], killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself. 
-*[[1988]] - [[Spitak Earthquake]]: In [[Armenia]] an [[earthquake]] measuring 6.9 on the [[Richter scale]] kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.  
-* 1988 - [[Yasser Arafat]] recognizes the right of [[Israel]] to exist. 
-* 1993 - The [[Long Island Rail Road massacre]]: Passenger [[Colin Ferguson]] murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in [[Nassau County, New York]]. 
-*[[1995]] - The [[Galileo spacecraft]] arrives at [[Jupiter]], a little more than six years after it was launched by [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] during [[STS-34|Mission STS-34]]. 
-*[[1998]] - [[Yachtsman]] [[Jesse Martin]] departs from Melbourne on his [[circumnavigation]] journey around the world. 
-*[[2001]] - [[John P. Walters]] is sworn in as the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). 
-*[[2003]] - The [[Conservative Party of Canada]] is officially recognized after the merger of the [[Canadian Alliance]] and [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada]]. 
-*[[2005]] - [[Rigoberto Alpizar]], a passenger on [[American Airlines Flight 924]] who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of US federal [[Federal Air Marshal Service|air marshals]] at [[Miami International Airport]]. 
-*[[2006]] - A [[London Tornado of 2006|tornado]] struck [[Kensal Green]], North West [[London]], seriously damaging around 150 properties. 
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