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• 1545 - Council of Trent begins
• 1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, on his round-the-world voyage
• 1642 - Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand
• 1643 - The Battle of Alton during the English Civil War
• 1862 - The Confederates win the Battle of Fredericksburg in the American Civil WarThe American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the northern states, popularly referred to as "the U. the Union," " the North," or "the Yankees"; and the seceding southern states, commonly referred to as "the Confederat
• 1937Events January January 1 Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua January 11 The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States. January 19 Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, - Battle of NanjingThe Battle of Nanjing ended with the fall of the capital city of Nanjing in 1937 to Japanese troops two months after the Republic of China Government had evacuated the city and relocated to Chongqing. On December 9, after unsuccessfully demanding the defe concludes with the Japanese victory and the fall of the cityNanjing (, Pinyin: Nanjing, Wade-Giles: Nan-ching Postal System Pinyin: Nanking is the capital city of Jiangsu Province in the People's Republic of China. It is situated in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River at 32°03'N, 118°47'E. Nanjing is the second which became the site of the Nanjing MassacreThe Nanjing Massacre ( Chinese: , pinyin: Nanjing Da Tush; Japanese: , Hepburn: Nankin Dai Gyaku-satsu), also known as the Rape of Nanking and sometimes in Japan as the Nanjing Incident (, Nankin Jiken), refers to the widespread atrocities conducted again
• 1938Events January -June January 3 The March of Dimes is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. January 11 Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a US national bank. January 20 Wedding of king Farouk I of Egypt and Farida Zulficar in Cai - 100 deportees from SachsenhausenSachsenhausen may refer to a quarter of Oranienburg in Germany, see Sachsenhausen (Oranienburg), and a detention facility here a quarter of Frankfurt am Main in Germany, see Sachsenhausen (Frankfurt am Main) a municipality of Weimarer Land, see Sachsenhau built the NeuengammeDuring World War 2 Neuengamme was a concentration camp near Hamburg, Germany. The site is one of the few concentration camps in Germany where most of the buildings have been conserved and serves as a memorial today. It is situated 15km southeast of the ce concentration camp near Hamburg
• 1949 - The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem
• 1959 - Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus
• 1972 - A chartered Spanish airliner crashes on takeoff from the Canary Islands, killing 155
• 1974 - Malta becomes a republic
• 1977 - A United States government DC-3 crashes after takeoff at Evansville, Indiana, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team
• 1978 - First Susan B. Anthony dollar enters circulation
• 1981 - General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland
• 1996 - Kofi Annan elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations
• 2000 - The so-called " Texas 7" escape from a Texas prison and go on a crime spree.
• 2001 - Parliament of India attacked by armed militants. Attempt foiled.
• 2002 - The European Union announces the addition of ten new members in Copenhagen: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. The countries' membership will be effective May 1, 2004
• 2003 Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit.