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• 48 BC - Roman Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
• 378 - Battle of Adrianople: A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey. Valens is killed along with 2/3 of his army.
• 1173 - Construction of the (Leaning) Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete.
• 1483Events April 9 Edward V becomes King of England. April King Edward V of England and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York reside in the Tower of London. Later this year rumors of their murders start circulating. By December the rumors have reached Fra - Opening of the Sistine ChapelThe Sistine Chapel is a religious chapel and one of the most famous artistic treasures of the Vatican, built between 1475 and 1483, in the time of Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere. It is known worldwide both for being the hall in which conclaves and other offi
• 1842Events February 21 John J. Greenough patents the sewing machine. March 5 Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande. This is the first such invasion since the Texas Revolution - Webster-Ashburton TreatyThe Webster-Ashburton Treaty signed August 9, 1842, settled the dispute over the location of the Maine- New Brunswick border between the United States and Canada as well as the location of the border in the westward frontier up to the Rocky Mountains. is signed, establishing the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in- CanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe border east of the Rocky MountainsThe Rocky Mountains often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3000 miles (4800 km) from Mexico, through the continental United States, into Canada and Alaska. The highest peak is M.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain - At Cedar Mountain, Virginia , Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
• 1877 - Indian Wars: Battle of Big Hole - Near Big Hole River in Montana, a small band of Nez Percé Indians who refused government orders to move to a reservation, clash with the United States Army. The army lost 29 soldiers and Indians lost 89 warriors in a US Army win.
• 1892 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
• 1902 - Edward VII is crowned king of the United Kingdom.
• 1930 - Betty Boop premiers in the animated film Dizzy Dishes .
• 1936 - 1936 Summer Olympics: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympics.
• 1942 - Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces.
• 1944 - The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey the Bear for the first time.
• 1945 - World War II: An atomic bomb nicknamed " Fat Man" is detonated over the city of Nagasaki, Japan at 11:02 AM (local time) with an equivalent force of 22,000 tons of TNT. An estimated 60,000-80,000 are killed and more 60,000 injured.
• 1965 - Singapore proclaims its independence from the Malaysian Federation.
• 1965 - Space disasters: Fire at Titan missile base near Little Rock, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
• 1967 - Vietnam War: Operation Cochise initiated - United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley .
• 1969 - Members of a cult led by Charles Manson murder five people including Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring and, Abigail Folger.
• 1974 - Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office, an action reportedly taken to prevent time from being wasted in impeachment proceedings in response to his role in the Watergate scandal. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, takes the oath of office and becomes the 38th president.
• 1988 - Wayne Gretzky is traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial transactions in hockey history.
• 1989 - Kaifu Toshiki becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
• 1993 - King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office nine days after the death of his brother, King Baudouin. The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership as Hosokawa Morihiro becomes the first non-LDP Prime Minister of Japan since 1955.
• 1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet. The Diet of Japan enacts a law establishing the Hinomaru and Kimi Ga Yo as the official national flag and national anthem.
• 2000 - A Piper Navajo and a Piper Seminole collide in mid-air over a housing development in Burlington, New Jersey killing 11
• 2001 - US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.
• 2004 - The Who play at The Hollywood Bowl.