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• 1328 - Battle of Kassel : French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers
• 1566 - Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands
• 1614 - The University of Groningen is established
• 1617 - In London, the first one-way street is established
• 1784 - Eastern Tennessee declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; the step is rejected by Congress one year later
• 1798 - Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power
• 1821Events February 23 The Philadelphia College of Apothecaries founds the first pharmacy college. March 25 Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence. July 10 The United States takes possession of its ne - MexicoThis article is about the country Mexico. For other meanings, see Mexico (disambiguation The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or Mexico regarding the use of the variant spelling Mejico see section The name below) is a co gains its independence from 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
• 1833Events January 3 Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. June 6 U. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train. September 29 The infant Isabella II becomes Queen of Spain, under the regency of her mot - SlaverySlavery is involuntary servitude, enforced by violence or other, clear forms of coercion. It is sometimes regarded as an expectation associated with other relationships, such as marriage and/or other family relations, military service, or debt relationshi abolished in the British colonies
• 1839Events January 9 The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. January 19 British East India Company captures Aden January 20 In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance. February 24 William Ot - The UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly captures Hong KongThe Hong Kong Special Administrative Region or Hong Kong (, pinyin: Xinggng, WG: Hsiang-kang, Cantonese IPA, Jyutping or Penkyamp: hoeng1 gong2, meaning Fragrant Harbour , is one of two Special Administrative Regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of Chi
• 1864 - The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico
• 1866 - Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague
• 1889 - First wireless message from a ship to the shore received
• 1904 - The automobile tire chain is patented
• 1914 - Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China
• 1924 - The distance between Earth and Mars is the smallest since the 10th century
• 1927 - Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1939 - Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, Baltic states, Finland and Poland are divided between the two nations
• 1940 - The Germans start bombing London
• 1942 - Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad
• 1943 - Kharkov liberated
• 1944 - Marseilles liberated
• 1944 - King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro- Nazi government of General Antonescu. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies
• 1944 - United States Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashed into a school in Freckleton , England killing 61 people
• 1947 - The Maynard Midgets beat Lock Haven 16-7 to win the first-ever Little League World Series championship.
• 1948 - World Council of Churches is formed
• 1952 - The Arab League goes into effect
• 1958 - Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
• 1960 - In Equatorial Guinea, the world's largest frog (3.3 kg) is caught
• 1962 - First live television connection between the United States and Europe, via the Telstar satellite
• 1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon
• 1973 - The Intelsat communication satellite is launched
• 1975 - Successful Communist coup in Laos
• 1976 - A major earthquake in China kills thousands of people
• 1979 - Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States
• 1985 - Hans Tiedge , top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany
• 1987 - Heavy rains and floods in Bangladesh kill hundreds of victims
• 1989 - Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stood on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands ( Baltic Way )
• 1990 - Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages to try to prevent the Gulf War)
• 1990 - Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union
• 1990 - West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3
• 2000 - A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain killing 143
• 2000 - Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.