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• 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bennington - British forces are defeated by American troops.
• 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden - The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
• 1812 - War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
• 1819 - Peterloo Massacre at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England.
• 18411841 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). Events January 26 The United Kingdom occupies Hong Kong. Later during the year, the first census of the island recorded a population of about 7,500. February 18 The first ongoing f - U.S. President John TylerJohn Tyler Order 10th President Term of Office April 6, 1841 March 3, 1845 Followed William Henry Harrison Succeeded by James Knox Polk Date of Birth March 29, 1790 Place of Birth Greenway, Virginia Date of Death January 18, 1862 Place of Death Richmond, vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United StatesThe Second Bank of the United States was founded in 1816, five years after the expiration of the First Bank of the United States and the chaos that ensued. This second bank was patterned after the first. The legality of the Bank was upheld in the 1819 Sup. Enraged Whig PartyThe United States Whig Party was a political party of the United States. The party was created in order to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson and called itself the Whig Party by analogy with the English Whigs, who had opposed the power of the King in R members riot outside the White HouseThis page is about the official residence of the President of the USA. For other White Houses see White House (disambiguation). See also 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (musical . The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
• 1858Events January 14 Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris but their bombs kill 156 bystanders. Because of the involvement of French emigres living in Britain, there is a brief anti-British feeling in France but the empe - U.S. President James BuchananFor the economist of this name, see James M. James Buchanan ( April 23, 1791 June 1, 1868) was the 15th ( 1857- 1861) President of the United States. He was the only bachelor President, and the only citizen of Pennsylvania to hold that office. He has been inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal will force a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
• 1896 - George Carmack discovers gold in the Klondike.
• 1920 - Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit in his head and fatally wounded with a fastball from Carl Mays of the New York Yankees. Chapman will die early the next day, becoming the only person to ever die during a major league baseball game (as of 2003).
• 1928 - Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, DC after killing about 20 people.
• 1930 - First colour sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, was made by Ub Iwerks
• 1954 - Volume 1, Issue 1 of Sports Illustrated is published.
• 1960 - Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1960 - Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,330 m). He sets unbeaten (as of 2003) world records for: high-altitude jump; free-fall by falling 16 miles (25.7 km) before opening his parachute; and fastest speed by a human without an aircraft, 614 mi/h (982 km/h).
• 1962 - The Beatles fire Pete Best and replace him with Ringo Starr.
• 1964 - Vietnam War: In a coup, General Nguyen Khanh replaces Duong Van Minh as South Vietnam's chief of state and establishes a new constitution, which the U.S. Embassy helped draft.
• 1966 - Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong with the intent to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 are arrested.
• 1972 - The Royal Moroccan Air Force mistakenly fires upon, but fails to bring down, Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he was traveling back to Rabat.
• 1984 - Carmaker John De Lorean is acquitted of all eight counts of possessing and distributing cocaine.
• 1987 - A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carrying Northwest Airlines flight 255 crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport killing all but one of the 156 people on-board (sole survivor was four-year old Cecelia Cichan). The crew forgot to properly set the planes flaps.
• 1993 - The Debian GNU/Linux distribution is founded by Ian Murdock.
• 2004 – Heavy rains cause a river to flood the small coastal town of Boscastle, north-east Cornwall, England, Britain (– August 17).