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• 1381 - King Richard II of England meets the leaders of Peasants Revolt.
• 1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Naseby - 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
• 1648 - Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
• 1775 - American Revolutionary WarThe American Revolutionary War ( 1775 1783), also known as the American War of Independence was a war fought between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen of her North American colonies. The war, which eventually widened far beyond British Nor: The United States ArmyThe Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. As of fiscal year 2002 (FY02), it consisted of 480,000 soldiers on active duty and 555,000 in reserve (350,000 in Army National G is established by the Continental CongressThe Continental Congress was the federal legislature of the Thirteen Colonies and later of the United States from 1774 to 1789, a period that included the American Revolutionary War and the Articles of Confederation. There were two Continental Congresses..
• 1777Events The Cornish language died out 2nd edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica published January 3 American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton. January 12 Mission Santa Clara de Asis is founded in - Stars and Stripes adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United StatesThe flag of the United States of America consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white; there is a blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner bearing 50 small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine of. [1]
• 1789Events January 7 First nationwide United States election January 21 The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth is printed in Boston, Massachusetts January 23 Georgetown College becomes the first Catholic coll - Mutiny on the Bountyfor other meaning see Mutiny on the Bounty (disambiguation) 29 April 1789 The Mutiny on the Bounty was a historical event in the late 18th century, most widely known through fiction, of an officer and part of the crew of a British Royal Navy ship rebellin: HMAV Bountyfor other meaning see Mutiny on the Bounty (disambiguation) 29 April 1789 The Mutiny on the Bounty was a historical event in the late 18th century, most widely known through fiction, of an officer and part of the crew of a British Royal Navy ship rebellin mutiny survivors including Captain William BlighWilliam Bligh ( September 9, 1754 December 7, 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy with final rank of Vice Admiral, who is best known for the famous mutiny that occurred against his command aboard HMAV Bounty. Early life Bligh was born in Plymou and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000 mile journey in an open boat.[2]
• 1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a Difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables."[3]
• 1846 - Bear Flag Revolt begins - American settlers in Sonoma, California start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic. [4]
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Second Winchester - A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
• 1872 - Trade unions legalised in Canada.[5]
• 1900 - Hawaii becomes a United States territory.[6]
• 1900 - The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
• 1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.[7]
• 1937 - Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
• 1940 - World War II: Paris falls under German occupation.
• 1940 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11 %. [8]
• 1940 - Holocaust: A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1941 - Mass deportations by Soviet Union authorities take place in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• 1942 - Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.
• 1951 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.[9]
• 1952 - The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
• 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" to the United States' Pledge of Allegiance.
• 1962 - Anna Slesersby becomes the first victim of Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler.
• 1966 - The Vatican announces the abolition of the index librorum prohibitum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.
• 1967 - Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
• 1967 - The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.[10]
• 1976 - The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther.
• 1976 - The Gong Show debuts on NBC.
• 1982 - Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Port Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
• 1985 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah.
• 1989 - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is arrested in Beverly Hills, California after slapping a motorcycle police officer. [11]; she later complains that the handling she received "was like Nazi Germany". Ultimately, Gabor is sentenced to 72 hours in jail.
• 1993 - A weeklong product tampering scare, later proven to be a hoax [12], occurs as customers throughout the USA discover syringes in unopened cans of Diet Pepsi Cola.
• 1994 - The New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup over the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 in Game 7, breaking a 54-year drought.
• 2002 - Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a car bomb explosion in front of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.