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• 275 - M. Claudius Tacitus appointed Roman emperor by the senate.
• 303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona was beheaded in Amiens, France.
• 1066 - Battle of Stamford Bridge, marking the end of the Viking era.
• 1396 - Ottoman Emperor Beyazid IBeyazid I ca 1354 1403; Bayezıt, nicknamed Yıldırım the 'Thunderbolt') was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389 to 1402. He ascended to the throne following the assassination of his father Murad I and immediately had his youn defeats a Christian army at the Battle of NicopolisThe Battle of Nicopolis took place on September 25, 1396, between a French- Hungarian alliance and the Ottoman Empire. It is often referred to as the crusade of Nicopolis and was both the largest and last large-scale " crusade" of the Middle Ages. The bat
• 1513Events January 20 Christian II becomes King of Denmark and Norway. March 11 Leo X elected pope. March 27 Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time mistaking it for another island. Later, on April 2, he land - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de BalboaVasco Nunez de Balboa (ca. 1475 January 21, 1519) was a Spanish conquistador who founded the colony of Darien in Panama, the oldest still-existing European settlement in mainland America, and became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean. Balboa sail reached the Pacific OceanFor other meanings of pacific see pacific (disambiguation). The Pacific Ocean (from the Spanish Pacifico meaning peaceful is the world's largest body of water. It encompasses a third of the Earth's surface, having an area of 179. 7 million km² (69. 4 mill
• 1555Events Russia breaks 60 year old truce with Sweden by attacking Finland May 23 Paul IV becomes Pope. Births Deaths February 8 Laurence Saunders martyred. March 23 Pope Julius III May 6 Pope Marcellus II May 25 Henry II of Navarre October 16 Nicholas Ridle - The Peace of AugsburgThe Peace of Augsburg was a treaty signed between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the forces of the Schmalkaldic League on September 25, 1555 at the city of Augsburg in Germany. The effect of the treaty was to establish official toleration for Lutheran is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
• 1690 - " Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick", the first newspaper published in the Americas, published for the first and only time.
• 1789 - The Bill of Rights passes the United States Congress
• 1804 - The Teton Sioux (a subdivison of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Corps of Discovery as a toll for moving further upriver.
• 1846 - American forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of Monterrey.
• 1890 - Yosemite National Park established in California.
• 1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism founded in New York,_New York.
• 1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force was founded.
• 1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas is integrated through the use of United States Army troops
• 1962 - The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria was formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas was elected President of the provisional government.
• 1978 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
• 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was the 102nd Justice sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman to hold the office.
• 1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war (because of time-zone differences, the date was Sept. 25 in the West, and Sept. 26 in the Soviet Union)
• 1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums was closed in Ireland
• 1998 - A Pauknair BAE146 crashes into hillside in Morocco killing 38
• 2003 - Magnitude 8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaido, Japan.