331BC |
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Alexander the Great decisively shatters
King Darius III's Persian army at Gaugamela (Arbela), in a tactical
masterstroke that leaves him master of the Persian Empire. |
1273 |
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Rudolf of Hapsburg is elected emperor in Germany. |
1588 |
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The feeble Sultan Mohammed Shah of Persia, hands over power to his 17-year old son Abbas. |
1791 |
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In Paris, the National Legislative Assembly holds its first meeting. |
1839 |
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The British government decides to send a punitive naval expedition to China. |
1847 |
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Maria Mitchell, American astronomer,
discovers a comet and is elected the same day to the American Academy of
Arts—the first woman to be so honored. The King of Denmark awarded her a
gold medal for her discovery. |
1856 |
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The first installment of Gustav Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary appears in the Revue de Paris after the publisher refuses to print a passage in which the character Emma has a tryst in the back seat of a carriage. |
1864 |
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The Condor, a British blockade-runner, is grounded near Fort Fisher, North Carolina. |
1878 |
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General Lew Wallace is sworn in as
governor of New Mexico Territory. He went on to deal with the Lincoln
County War, Billy the Kid and write Ben-Hur. His Civil War heroics earned him the moniker Savior of Cincinnati. |
1890 |
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Yosemite National Park is dedicated in California. |
1908 |
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The Ford Model T, the first car for
millions of Americans, hits the market. Over 15 million Model Ts are
eventually sold, all of them black. |
1942 |
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The German Army grinds to a complete halt within the city of Stalingrad. |
1943 |
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British troops in Italy enter Naples and occupy Foggia airfield. |
1944 |
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The U.S. First Army begins the siege Aachen, Germany. |
1946 |
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Eleven Nazi war criminals are sentenced to
be hanged at Nuremberg trials—Hermann Goring, Alfred Jodl, Hans Frank,
Wilhelm Frick, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachin von
Ribbentrop, Fritz Saukel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Julius Streicher, and
Alfred Rosenberg. |
1974 |
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Five Nixon aides–Kenneth Parkinson, Robert
Mardian, Nixon's Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and
U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell–go on trial for conspiring to hinder
the Watergate investigation. |
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