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1197 | Emperor Henry VI dies in Messina, Sicily. | |
1399 | Richard II of England is deposed. His cousin, Henry of Lancaster, declares himself king under the name Henry IV. | |
1493 | Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz, Spain, on his second voyage to the new world. | |
1513 | Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean. | |
1789 | Congress votes to create a U.S. army. | |
1833 | A civil war breaks out in Spain between Carlists, who believe Don Carlos deserves the throne, and supporters of Queen Isabella. | |
1850 | Mormon leader Brigham Young is named the first governor of the Utah Territory. | |
1864 | Union troops capture the Confederate Fort Harrison, outside Petersburg, Virginia. | |
1879 | Dissatisfied Ute Indians kill Agent Nathan Meeker and nine others in the “Meeker Massacre.” | |
1932 | A five-day work week is established for General Motors workers. | |
1939 | Germany and the Soviet Union reach an agreement on the division of Poland. | |
1941 | 30,000 Jews are gunned down in Kiev when Heinrich Himmler sends four strike squads to exterminate Soviet Jewish civilians and other “undesirables.” | |
1943 | Adolf Hitler‘s book Mein Kampf is published in the United States. | |
1950 | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev repeatedly disrupts a UN General Assembly meeting with his violent outbursts over intervention in the Belgian Congo, US U2 spy planes, and arms control. | |
1960 | General Douglas MacArthur officially returns Seoul, South Korea, to President Syngman Rhee. | |
1962 | Canada launches its first satellite, Alouette 1. | |
1962 | The popular Argentinian comic strip Mafalda beings publication, in the weekly Primera Plana; focusing on a six-year-old girl (Mafalda) and her friends, it has been called the Argentinian Peanuts. | |
1966 | Chevrolet introduces the Camaro, which will become an iconic car. | |
1971 | Oman joins the Arab League. | |
1979 | John Paul II becomes the first pope ever to visit Ireland. | |
1990 | The YF-22, later named F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time. | |
1992 | Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello impeached for corruptions; he was the youngest president in the nation’s history, taking office at age 40 in 1990. | |
2008 | Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 777.68 points in the wake of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual bankruptcies, the largest single-day point loss in Wall Street history. | |
2009 | An 8.1 earthquake causes a tidal wave that claims 189 lives in Samoa, American Samoa, and Tonga. |