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43 BC | Cicero, considered one of the greatest sons of Rome, is assassinated on the orders of Marcus Antonius. | |
983 | Otto III takes the throne after his father’s death in Italy. A power struggle between magnates ensues. | |
1787 | Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. | |
1808 | James Madison is elected president succeeding Thomas Jefferson. | |
1861 | USS Santiago de Cuba, under Commander Daniel B. Ridgely, halts the British schooner Eugenia Smith and captures J.W. Zacharie, a New Orleans merchant and Confederate purchasing agent. | |
1862 | Confederate forces surprise an equal number of Union troops at the Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. | |
1863 | Outlaw George Ives, an alleged member of an outlaw gang known as the “Innocents,” robs and then kills Nick Thiebalt in the Ruby Valley of what would become Montana. | |
1917 | The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary with only one dissenting vote in Congress. | |
1918 | Spartacists call for a German revolution. | |
1931 | A report indicates that Nazis would ensure “Nordic dominance” by sterilizing certain races. | |
1941 | Japanese planes raid Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in a surprise attack, bringing the US into WWII. | |
1942 | The U.S. Navy launches the USS New Jersey, the largest battleship ever built. | |
1946 | The president of the United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis, orders all striking miners back to work. | |
1949 | The A.F.L. and the C.I.O. organize a non-Communist international trade union. | |
1970 | Poland and West Germany sign a pact renouncing the use of force to settle disputes, recognizing the Oder-Neisse River as Poland’s western frontier, and acknowledging the transfer to Poland of 40,000 square miles of former German territory. | |
1972 | The crew of Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the moon, lifts off at Cape Canaveral, Florida. | |
1981 | The Reagan junta predicts a record deficit in 1982 of $109 billion. | |
1988 | An earthquake in Armenia kills an estimated 100,000 people. | |
1988 | Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat recognizes Israel’s right to exist. | |
1995 | The spacecraft Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter after a 6-year journey. | |
1999 | The Recording Industry Association of America files a copyright infringement suit against the file-sharing website Napster. | |
2003 | A tornado in Kensal Green, North West London, damages about 150 properties. |