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• 1537 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, was formed.
• 1580 - Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal.
• 1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers
• 1718 - New Orleans, Louisiana is founded
• 1825 - Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil
• 1830Events February 3 The previously autonomous state of Greece gains full independence from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence. Negotiations for the borders between the two states continue until 1832, under the supervisio - 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 revolts from the NetherlandsDutch redirects here. For other uses, see Dutch (disambiguation). The Netherlands ( Dutch: Nederland is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a constitutional monarchy. It is located in northwestern Europe and borders the North Sea, Belgium
• 1835Events January 1 Ole Pedersen Hoiland breaks into the Bank of Norway and steals 64. 000 dalers January 7 HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago. January 30 Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Cap - The New York SunThe New York Sun is a daily newspaper published at New York City which debuted April 16, 2002. It is "the first general interest broadsheet newspaper to be launched in New York in two generations". Its owners include Hollinger International, the company o perpetrates The Great Moon Hoax
• 1875Events January 12 Kwang-su becomes emperor of China. February 27 Newton Booth, 11th Governor of California resigns, having been elected Senator. Lieutenant Governor of California Romualdo Pacheco becomes acting Governor. He is later replaced by elected go - Matthew WebbCaptain Matthew Webb ( 19 January 1848 24 July 1883) was the first person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aids. On 25 August 1875 he swam from Dover to Calais in less than 22 hours. He was born at Dawley in Shropshire, one of 12 becomes the first person to swim the English Channel
• 1910 - Yellow Cab is founded
• 1912 - Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party is founded
• 1916 - United States National Park Service is created
• 1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, started on August 13, now ends. The Red Army is defeated.
• 1942 - Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
• 1944 - World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies
• 1946 - Ben Hogan wins PGA Championship
• 1950 - President Harry Truman ordered the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
• 1960 - Games of the XVII Olympiad open in Rome
• 1975 - Bruce Springsteen releases Born to Run, the classic album that would launch him to superstardom.
• 1980 - Microsoft announces their version of UNIX, Xenix
• 1980 - The Broadway musical " 42nd Street" opened; the show's director, Gower Champion, died earlier that day.
• 1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe
• 1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft flies by Neptune.
• 1991 - Linus Torvalds first says in a post to the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he is working on a new free computer operating system.
• 2003 - the Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo, Northwest Territories
• 2003 - 52 killed in two Islamic terrorist bomb blasts in Mumbai, India.