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*[[1795]] - [[Belgium]] is conquered by [[France]]. *[[1795]] - [[Belgium]] is conquered by [[France]].
-*[[1800]] - [[Spain]] cedes [[Louisiana]] to [[France]] via the [[Third Treaty of San Ildefonso|Treaty of San Ildefonso]]. 
-*[[1811]] - The first [[steamboat]] to sail the [[Mississippi River]] arrives in [[New Orléans, Louisiana]]. 
-*[[1814]] - Opening of the [[Congress of Vienna]], intended to redraw the [[Europe]]'s political map after the defeat of [[Napoléon]] the previous spring. 
-*[[1827]] - The Russian army under [[Ivan Paskevich]] storms [[Yerevan]], ending a millennium of Muslim domination in [[Armenia]]. 
-*[[1829]] - [[South African College]] is founded in [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]]; later to separate into the [[University of Cape Town]] and the [[South African College Schools]]. 
-*[[1843]] - [[News of the World]] began publication in [[London]]. 
-*[[1847]] - [[Germany|German]] inventor and industrialist [[Ernst Werner von Siemens|Werner von Siemens]] founds [[Siemens AG]] & Halske. 
-*[[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]]. 
-*[[1869]] - [[Austria]] issues the world's first [[postcard]]s. 
-*[[1880]] - [[John Philip Sousa]] becomes leader of the [[United States Marine Corps]] Band. 
-* 1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by [[Thomas Edison]]. 
-*[[1885]] - United States begins special-delivery mail service. 
-*[[1886]] - The U.S. mint in [[Carson City, Nevada]], closes. 
-*[[1887]] - [[Balochistan (region)|Balochistan]] conquered by the [[British Empire]].  
-*[[1890]] - The [[Yosemite National Park]] is established by the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]]. 
-*[[1891]] - In the [[U.S. state]] of [[California]], [[Stanford University]] opens its doors. 
-*[[1894]] - First meeting of [[The Owl Club]] of [[Cape Town]]. 
-*[[1898]] - [[Czar]] [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nikolay II]] expels [[Jew]]s from major [[Russia]]n cities. 
-* 1898 - The [[Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration]] is founded under the name ''k.u.k. Exportakademie''. 
-*[[1903]] - [[Baseball]]: The [[Boston Americans]] play the [[Pittsburgh Pirates]] in the first game of the modern [[World Series]]. 
-*[[1905]] - František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in [[Prague]], inspiring [[Leoš Janáček]] to the piano composition [[1. X. 1905]]. <!-- this date might be ''Julian calendar'', to be checked--> 
-*[[1908]] - [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] introduces the [[Ford Model T|Model T]] car. 
-*[[1910]] - A large bomb destroys the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' building in downtown [[Los Angeles, California]], killing 21.  
-*[[1918]] - [[World War I]]: [[Arab]] forces under [[T. E. Lawrence]] (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture [[Damascus]]. 
-*[[1920]] - [[Percy Zachariah Cox|Sir Percy Cox]] landed in [[Basra]] to assume his responsibilities as [[high commissioner]] in [[Iraq]]. 
-*[[1926]] - An oil field accident cost aviator [[Wiley Post]] his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft. 
-* 1926 - [[Arirang]] premiers in [[Seoul]]. 
-*[[1928]] - The [[Soviet Union]] introduces its [[First Five-Year Plan]]. 
-*[[1931]] - The [[George Washington Bridge]] linking [[New Jersey]] and [[New York]] opens. 
-* 1931 - The second (and current) [[Waldorf-Astoria Hotel]] is opened in [[New York]]. 
-*[[1936]] - [[Francisco Franco]] is named head of the Nationalist government of [[Spain]]. 
-*[[1938]] - [[Germany]] annexes the [[Sudetenland]]. 
-*[[1939]] - After a one-month [[Siege of Warsaw]], hostile forces entered the city. 
-*[[1940]] - The [[Pennsylvania Turnpike]], often considered the first [[superhighway]] in the United States, opens to traffic. 
-*[[1942]] - [[USS Grouper (SS-214)|USS ''Grouper'']] torpedoes ''[[Lisbon Maru]]'' not knowing she was carrying British [[prisoner of war|PoWs]] from [[Hong Kong]] 
-*1942 - First flight of the [[Bell Aircraft|Bell]] [[XP-59]] "Aircomet". 
-*[[1943]] - [[World War II]]: [[Naples]] falls to [[Allies|Allied]] soldiers. 
-*[[1946]] - [[Nazism|Nazi]] leaders sentenced at [[Nuremberg Trials]]. 
-*[[1949]] - The [[People's Republic of China]] is declared by [[Mao Zedong]].  
-*[[1957]] - First appearance of "[[In God We Trust]]" on U.S. paper currency. 
-*[[1958]] - [[NASA]] created to replace [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics|NACA]]. 
-*[[1960]] - [[Nigeria]] gains independence from the [[United Kingdom]]. 
-*[[1961]] - East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of [[Cameroon]]. 
*[[1964]] - The [[Free Speech Movement]] is launched on the campus of [[University of California, Berkeley]]. *[[1964]] - The [[Free Speech Movement]] is launched on the campus of [[University of California, Berkeley]].
* 1964 - [[Japan]]ese ''[[Shinkansen]]'' ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from [[Tokyo]] to [[Osaka]]. * 1964 - [[Japan]]ese ''[[Shinkansen]]'' ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from [[Tokyo]] to [[Osaka]].

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