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Events
1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon.;
1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.;
1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.;
1749 - Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.;
1777 - American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.;
1815 - Austria, Britain, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.;
1823 - Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.;
1825 - Rensselaer School, the first engineering college in the U.S. is opened in Troy, New York. It is now known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.;
1833 - Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.;
1834 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City.;
1848 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia.;
1861 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.;
1868 - Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.;
1871 - Henry W. Bradley patents oleomargarine.;
1888 - The 91 cm refracting telescope at Lick Observatory is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.;
1888 - Marvin C. Stone patents the drinking straw.;
1899 - The first known use of the word automobile, in an editorial in The New York Times.;
1920 - Curse of the Bambino: The Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for a sum of $125,000 and a loan of more than $300,000.;
1921 - Turkey makes peace with Armenia.;
1924 - English explorer Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.;
1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.;
1932 - Martial law declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit.;
1938 - The March of Dimes is established by Franklin D. Roosevelt.;
1938 - Woman in White is first broadcast on the NBC Red network. The program remains on the radio for the next ten years.;
1944 - World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.;
1945 - Admiral Chester W Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan itself.;
1947 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.;
1951 - Dragnet is first broadcast on NBC-TV.;
1953 - Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.;
1957 - Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.;
1958 - The West Indies Federation is formed.;
1959 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.;
1961 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.;
1961 - The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, leaks radiation, killing three workers.;
1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.;
1966 - The first Acid Test at the Fillmore, San Francisco, California.;
1966 - The Psychedelic Shop, the world's first Head shop, opened on Haight Street near Ashbury in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.;
1973 - Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $12 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner.;
1977 - Apple Computer was incorporated.;
1983 - Tony Dorsett of the Dallas Cowboys makes the longest run from scrimmage (99 yards) in NFL history.;
1983 - CiTV launches on ITV1 in the UK.;
1987 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.;
1988 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th Century.;
1990 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.;
1991 - Hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal.;
1991 - Gulf War: The British government announces the expulsion of 75 Iraqis from the country.;
1993 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).;
1993 - In an AFC Wild Card game, the Buffalo Bills comeback from a 35-3 deficit against the Houston Oilers and win the game in overtime 41-38, the largest comeback in NFL history.;
1994 - An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkutsk, Russia, killing 125 people including one on the ground.;
1997 - The People's Republic of China announces it will spend $27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys.;
1999 - The Mars Polar Lander launches.;
1999 - Israel detains, later to expel, 14 members of Concerned Christians.;
2000 - The last "Peanuts" comic strip is created by Charles Schulz.;
2004 - Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people aboard.;
2007 - National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport when it was travelling to Glasgow;
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