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• 1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine
• 1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther.
• 1749 - Benning Wentworth issued the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
• 1777 - Battle of Princeton. American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis.
• 1815Events January 3 Austria, Britain, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia. January 8 War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans February 3 The first commercial cheese factory is founded in Switzerland February 6 New Jersey g - AustriaAustria is a landlocked country in Central Europe, a federation of nine states. Austria is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the, BritainThe 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, and FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. form a secret defensive alliance treaty against PrussiaThe word Prussia ( German: Preussen (Preussen Polish: Prusy Lithuanian: Prusai Latin: Borussia has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia and RussiaThe Russian Federation ( Russian: , transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija , or Russia (Russian: , transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija , is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. With.
• 1823Events July 15 San Paolo fuori le Mura church in Rome almost completely destroyed by fire September 10 Simon Bolivar named President of Peru December 2 US President James Monroe delivers a speech to the United States Congress, announcing a new policy of f - Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico
• 1833 - Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
• 1834 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City
• 1840 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Port Phillip Herald is founded by George Cavanaugh.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States
• 1868 - The Japanese Meiji dynasty is restored and the Shogunate is abolished.
• 1888 - The 91 cm refracting telescope at Lick Observatory is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
• 1899 - The first known use of the word " automobile", in an editorial in the New York Times
• 1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
• 1926 - General Theodorus Pángulos names himself dictator of Greece
• 1938 - The March of Dimes is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
• 1947 - Proceedings of the United States Congress are televised for the first time.
• 1951 - Dragnet airs on television for the first time ( NBC).
• 1957 - Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
• 1958 - West Indies Federation formed.
• 1959 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
• 1961 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
• 1961 - The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho leaks radiation, killing three workers at the installation. The radiation is contained.
• 1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
• 1966 - First Acid Test at the Fillmore, San Francisco, California.
• 1973 - Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner.
• 1987 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
• 1990 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
• 1993 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
• 1994 - An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkhutsk, Russia killing 125 including 1 on the ground
• 1997 - NBC's Today show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time.
• 2004 - Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 aboard.
• 2004 - Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars.