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• 238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors
• 1621 - The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
• 1622 - Jamestown massacre : Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, VirginiaJamestown was a village on an island in the James River in Virginia, about 45 miles southeast of where Richmond, Virginia, is now. Both the river and the 1607 settlement there were named for King James I of England who had recently come to the throne then (1/3 of the colony's population)
• 1638Events March 29 Swedish colonists establish first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden April 15 Shogunate forces defeat the last rebels of Shimabara Rebellion in the fortress of Hara May 11 French admiral d'Estrees runs his whole fleet aground in Cur - Anne HutchinsonAnne Hutchinson ( July 17, 1591 1643) was the unauthorized Puritan preacher of a dissident church discussion group, and pioneer in Rhode Island and the Bronx. She held to predestination, but preached that it implied good works were futile, and restricting is expelled from Massachusetts Bay ColonyThe Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called by the name Massachusetts Bay Company for the institution that founded it) was the direct predecessor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and then the state of Massachusetts. The colony was established under for religious dissent.
• 1765Events March 9 Judges in Paris find Jean Calas innocent, (after having been tortured and executed in 1762) of murdering his son, Marc-Antoine, who had committed suicide), mainly because Voltaire wrote a series of articles calling for the case to be re-ope - The British Parliament passes the Stamp ActThe Stamp Act 1765 was the fourth Stamp Act to be passed by the British Parliament and required all legal documents, permits, commercial contracts, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards in the American colonies to carry a tax stamp. The Act was enacted which is the first direct tax levied from England on the American colonies.
• 1809Events January 16 Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of Corunna. February 3 Illinois Territory was created. February 11 Robert Fulton patents the steamboat. February 20 A decision by the Supreme Court of the United States states t - Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
• 1871 - In North Carolina, William Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
• 1888 - The Football League is formed
• 1894 - The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
• 1895 - First display of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumière (private screening).
• 1939 - World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania
• 1941 - Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
• 1945 - The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
• 1954 - The London gold market reopens (it was closed in 1939).
• 1958 - Faisal becomes King of Saudi Arabia
• 1960 - A.L. Schawlow & C.H. Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
• 1965 - Bob Dylan "goes electric," releasing his first album featuring electric instruments, Bringing It All Back Home.
• 1975 - A fire at the Brown's Ferry nuclear reactor in Decatur, Alabama caused dangerous lowering of cooling water levels.
• 1978 - Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• 1984 - Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges were later dropped as completely unfounded.
• 1993 - The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS.
• 1995 - Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space.
• 1997 - 14 year, 10 month old Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest champion of the women's world figure skating competition.