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• 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Arbela
• 959 - Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England
• 965 - John XIII becomes Pope
• 1701 - Matthieu Garigue received by French Reformed Church of The Hague
• 1788 - Nguyen Hue declares himself emperor of Viet Nam
• 1791 - First session of the FrenchThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. Legislative AssemblyDuring the French Revolution, the Legislative Assembly was the legislature of France from 1 October 1791 to September 1792. It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and
• 1795Events January 16 French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands. January 20 French troops enter Amsterdam and later proclaim Batavian Republic. January 23 Dutch fleet freezes in Issel Meer. February 7 The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed. - BelgiumFor alternate meanings, see Belgium (disambiguation). Belgian redirects here. For the horse breed commonly used as a draft horse, see Belgian. The Kingdom of Belgium ( Dutch: Belgi French: Belgique German: Belgien is a country in Western Europe, bordered conquered by FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents.
• 1800Events March 14 Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected pope Pius VII. March 21 Pius VII becomes Pope April 24 US Library of Congress founded. May 15 Napoleon Bonaparte crosses the Alps and invades Italy. June 14 Battle of Marengo, Napoleon defeats the Au - SpainThe Kingdom of Spain is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the northeast, along the Pyrenees mountain range, it borders France and the tiny principality of Andorra. It inc cedes LouisianaLouisiana is a southern state of the United States of America. It uses the U. postal abbreviation LA . The state is bordered to the west by the state of Texas, to the north by Arkansas, to the east by the state of Mississippi, and to the south by the Gulf to FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. via Treaty of San Ildefonso
• 1811 - First steamboat to sail the Mississippi arrives in New Orleans
• 1854 - The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts to become the Waltham Watch Company pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.
• 1869 - Austria issues the world's first postcards
• 1880 - John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Corps Band
• 1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison
• 1885 - United States begins special delivery mail service.
• 1887 - Baluchistan conquered by British Empire
• 1890 - Yosemite National Park established by United States Congress
• 1891 - In California, Stanford University open its doors
• 1898 - Czar Nicholas II expels Jews from major Russian cities
• 1903 - Boston Americans played the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
• 1908 - Ford introduces Model T car
• 1910 - In downtown Los Angeles, California, a large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 20.
• 1918 - Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence capture Damascus
• 1928 - Soviet Union introduces first five-year plan.
• 1931 - George Washington Bridge links New Jersey and New York
• 1936 - Francisco Franco named head of the Nationalist government of Spain
• 1938 - Germany annexes Sudetenland
• 1943 - Naples falls to Allied soldiers
• 1946 - Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials
• 1949 - The People's Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong
• 1949 - First rectangular television tubes manufactured by Kimble Glass
• 1957 - First appearance of " In God We Trust" on paper currency
• 1958 - NASA created to replace NACA
• 1959 - Acme Refrigeration incorporated by Adrian Kaiser
• 1960 - Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom
• 1960 - Cyprus gains independence from the United Kingdom
• 1961 - East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon
• 1961 - Roger Maris sets new record for most home runs in a single season.
• 1963 - California State Board of Education created.
• 1964 - Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
• 1964 - Japanese bullet train begins service from Tokyo to Osaka
• 1965 - Suharto crushes attempted coup in Indonesia
• 1968 - BGBS taken over by Guyana Government
• 1969 - Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time
• 1971 - Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida
• 1975 - Seychelles gain internal self-government
• 1975 - Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name Tuvalu
• 1975 - Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila.
• 1977 - Brazilian soccer star Pelé retires
• 1979 - United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama
• 1982 - Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
• 1982 - Epcot Center opens at Walt Disney World
• 1985 - Bombing of the PLO Headquarters in Tunis by the Israeli air force.
• 1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev named head of the Supreme Soviet
• 1998 - ICANN assumes responsibility for selling top-level domain names.
• 2004 - Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki gets his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.