This Day In History
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362- Athanasius returns to Alexandria 1173- Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury 1245- Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after having confessed to torture and forgery 1431- Joan of Arc's first day of interrogation during her trial for heresy 1440- The Prussian Confederation is formed 1564King Philip II advises Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle to retire from the Netherlands to Franche-Comté in France 1574- Spanish garrison of Middelburg, Netherlands, surrenders 1583Groningen, Netherlands, begins using Gregorian calendar 1598- Boris Godunov crowned Tsar of Russia
1613 - Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected first Russian Tsar of the house of Romanov. 1675 - Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland
1746 - Jacobite Rising 1745: British forces surrender Inverness Castle to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite forces
1777 - British ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John de Graaff for saluting US flag
1782 - US Congress resolves establishment of a US mint
1848 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto" in London
1874 - Benjamin Disraeli succeeds William Gladstone as British Prime Minister
1901 - In Cuba, the constitutional delegates adopt a constitution much like that of the USA
1915 - Russian 20th Army corps surrenders to the German 10th Army after being surrounded
1916 - World War I: Battle of Verdun begins, leads to an estimated 1 million casualties
1917 - British troopship SS Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 646 die
1922 - Britain declares Egypt a sovereign state
1932 - Andre Tardieu becomes Premier of France 1937 - The League of Nations bans foreign national “volunteers” in the Spanish Civil War.
1947 - 1st instant developing camera demonstrated by Edwin Land in NYC
1969 - 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazakhstan (explodes)
1972 - Richard Nixon becomes 1st US president to visit China
1973 - Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108
1974 - Israeli forces leave western Suez
1979 - Japan launches Hakucho X-ray satellite & Corsa-B (550/580 km).
1981 - Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k)
1981 - NASA launches Comstar D-4
1987 - Syrian army marches into Beirut
1991 - USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable 1996 - Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit
2012 -Yemeni voters go to the polls for a presidential election where the only candidate on the ballot paper is vice-president Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi 2013 - 83 people are killed and 250 are injured in a series of bombing attacks in Damascus, Syria
2013 - 21 people are killed and 54 are injured in a bombing in Hyderabad, India.
2014 - 11 people are killed after a Libyan Air Force plan crashes in Tunisia.
2014 -Police in Kiev open fire on protesters: 27 killed and around 570 injured
2016 - Bombings in the Syrian cities of Homs and Damascus kill 140 people, Islamic State claims responsibility
2017 -Bodies of 87 African migrants wash ashore at Zawiya, Libya 2017 -Plane crashes into shopping centre in Essendon, Melbourne, Australia killing the five people on board 2018- Indian film star Kamal Haasan launches a new political party - Makkal Needhi Mayyam in Tamil Nadu state 2018- Laykyun Sekkya, the world's third tallest statue at 116 meters (381 ft) depicting Gautama Buddha completed