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-* [[456]] - [[Magister militum]] [[Ricimer]] defeats the Emperor [[Avitus]] at [[Piacenza]] and becomes master of the western [[Roman Empire]].+
-*[[1775]] - [[Portland, Maine]] burned by the [[United Kingdom|British]].+
-*[[1780]] - [[Royalton, Vermont]] and [[Tunbridge, Vermont]] last major raid of the [[Revolutionary War|American Revolutionary War]].+
-*[[1781]] - [[George Washington]] captures [[Yorktown, Virginia]].+
*[[1793]] - [[Marie Antoinette]], wife of [[Louis XVI of France|Louis XVI]] is [[guillotine]]d at the height of the [[French Revolution]]. *[[1793]] - [[Marie Antoinette]], wife of [[Louis XVI of France|Louis XVI]] is [[guillotine]]d at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
-* 1793 - [[Battle of Wattignies (1793)|Battle of Wattignies]]. 
-*[[1813]] - The [[Sixth Coalition]] attacks [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon Bonaparte]] in the [[Battle of Leipzig]]. 
-*[[1834]] - Much of the ancient structures of the [[Palace of Westminster]] in [[London]] is burnt down.  
-*[[1841]] - [[Queen's University, Canada|Queen's University]] is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. 
-*[[1843]] - [[William Rowan Hamilton|Sir William Rowan Hamilton]] comes up with the idea of [[quaternion]]s, a [[commutative|non-commutative]] extension of [[complex number]]s. 
-*[[1859]] - [[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]] leads raid on [[Harper's Ferry, West Virginia]] 
-*[[1869]] - [[Cardiff Giant]], one of the most famous American hoaxes, is discovered. 
-* 1869 - [[England]]'s first residential college for women, [[Girton College, Cambridge]], is founded. 
-*[[1875]] - [[Brigham Young University]] is founded in [[Provo]], [[Utah]]. 
-*[[1882]] - The [[New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad|Nickel Plate Railroad]] opens for business. 
-*[[1905]] - The [[Partition of Bengal (1905)|Partition of Bengal]] (India) occurred. 
-*[[1906]] - The [[Wilhelm Voigt|Captain of Köpenick]] fools the [[City hall (administration)|city hall]] of [[Köpenick]] and several soldiers by impersonating a [[Prussia]]n officer. 
-*[[1916]] - [[Margaret Sanger]] founds [[Planned Parenthood]] by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic. 
-*[[1923]] - [[The Walt Disney Company]] is founded by [[Walt Disney]] and his brother, [[Roy Disney]]. 
-*[[1934]] - [[China|Chinese]] [[Communism|Communists]] begin the [[Long March]]; it ended a year and four days later, by which time [[Mao Zedong]] had regained his title as party chairman. 
-*[[1939]] - [[World War II]]: First attack on British territory by German [[Luftwaffe]]. 
-*[[1940]] - [[Benjamin O. Davis Sr.]] named first [[African American]] general in the [[United States Army]]. 
-* 1940 - [[Warsaw Ghetto]] established.  
-*[[1944]] - First flight of the [[Junkers (Aircraft)|Junkers]] [[Junkers Ju 287|Ju 287]]. 
-*[[1945]] - The [[Food and Agriculture Organization]] was founded in [[Quebec City]], [[Canada]]. 
-*[[1946]] - Ten war criminals of the [[World War II|Second World War]], condemned in the [[Nuremberg trials]] are hanged. 
-*[[1949]] - [[Nikolaos Zachariadis]], leader of the [[Communist Party of Greece]], announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the [[Greek Civil War]]. 
-*[[1951]] - The first [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]], [[Liaquat Ali Khan]], is [[assassin]]ated in [[Rawalpindi]]. 
-*[[1961]] - [[Cork Airport]] opened in Ireland. 
-*[[1962]] - [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] between the [[United States]] and [[Cuba]] began. 
-*[[1964]] - [[People's Republic of China]] detonates its first [[nuclear weapon]]. 
-*[[1968]] - [[United States]] athletes [[Tommie Smith]] and [[John Carlos]] are kicked out of the USA's team for performing a [[Black Power]] salute during a medal ceremony. 
-* 1968 - [[Kingston, Jamaica]] is rocked by the [[Rodney Riots]], inspired by the barring of [[Walter Rodney]] from the country. 
-*[[1969]] - [[United States]] - The "miracle" [[New York Mets]] win the [[World Series]], defeating the [[Baltimore Orioles]] 4 games to 1. 
-*[[1970]] - [[Canada]] - In response to the [[October Crisis]] terrorist kidnapping, [[Prime Minister]] [[Pierre Trudeau]] invokes the [[War Measures Act]]. 
-*[[1972]] - ''[[Rainbow (television)|Rainbow]]'', a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[television]] programme for children, debuts. ''[[Emmerdale]]'', the UK soap opera debuts. 
-*[[1973]] - [[Henry Kissinger]] and [[Le Duc Tho]] are awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]. 
-*[[1975]] - The [[Balibo Five]], a group of [[Australia]]n [[television]] [[journalist]]s based in the town of [[Balibo]] in the then [[Portuguese Timor]] (now [[East Timor]]), are killed by [[Indonesia]]n troops. 
-*[[1978]] - Karol Józef Wojtyła becomes [[Pope John Paul II]]. 
-*[[1984]] - [[Desmond Tutu]] is awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]. Professional Wrestler [[Shawn Michaels]] made his debut. 
-*[[1987]] - [[Great Storm of 1987]]: [[hurricane]] force winds to hit much of the [[South England|South of England]] killing 23 people. 
-*[[1991]] - [[Luby's massacre]]: [[George Hennard]] runs amok in [[Killeen, Texas|Killeen]], [[Texas]], killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria. 
-* 1991 - [[Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha]] is founded at a conference in [[Ranchi]], [[India]]. 
-*[[1995]] - The [[Million Man March]] occurs in [[Washington, DC]]. 
-*[[1996]] - Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 [[football]] fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat ''[[Estadio Mateo Flores]]'' in [[Guatemala City]]. 
-*[[2002]] - [[Bibliotheca Alexandrina]] in the [[Egypt]]ian city of [[Alexandria]], a commemoration of the [[Library of Alexandria]] that was lost in [[Classical antiquity|antiquity]], is officially inaugurated. 
-*[[2002]] - [[Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002]], was signed into law by President [[George W. Bush]]. 
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