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• 607 - Boniface III becomes Pope.
• 1674 - England and the Netherlands sign the Peace of Westminster . A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, which renamed it New York.
• 1807 - In Alabama, Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason.
• 1846Events January 5 The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom February 5 The Oregon Spectator becomes the first newspaper on the Pacific coast of the United States. February 10 Many Mormons - In Austin, TexasAustin is the capital of the state of Texas, within the United States of America. As of Census 2000, the population of 656,562 people (metro area population of over 1 million people) made Austin the fourth-largest city in Texas (behind Houston, Dallas, an the newly-formed Texas state government is officially installed.
• 1847Events January 4 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government. January 13 The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California. January 16 John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory. - The Donner PartyThe Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers in the 1840s who were famous for resorting to cannibalism while snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. It was made up of 87 emigrants in 23 wagons traveling along the California Trail. The nucleu is rescued. It is noted that some of the survivors seem to be remarkably well-fed considering their ordeal.
• 1852Events January 14 President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic. January 17 United Kingdom recognizes independence of the Transvaal Devil's Island penal colony opens February 11 First British public toilet - The Phi Kappa PsiPhi;ΚΨ (Phi Kappa Psi is a U. national college fraternity. History Phi Kappa Psi was founded in 1852 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, on the campus of Jefferson College by William Henry Letterman and Charles Page Thomas Moore. Through long nights of fraternity is founded at Jefferson CollegeWashington and Jefferson College is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college located in Washington, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1781 and is the oldest institution of higher learning west of the Alleghany mountains. The college has an enrollment in Canonsburg, PennsylvaniaCanonsburg is a borough located in Washington County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 8,607. Geography Canonsburg is located at 40°15'43" North, 80°11'6" West (40. 262012, -80. According to the United States Cens.
• 1861 - Serfdom is abolished in Russia.
• 1878 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison.
• 1881 - Kansas became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.
• 1913 - Prizes are included in Cracker Jack candy boxes for the first time.
• 1942 - World War II: About 150 Japanese warplanes attack Darwin, Australia.
• 1942 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps.
• 1945 - World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima - about 30,000 United States Marines landed on Iwo Jima starting the battle.
• 1949 - Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
• 1953 - Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
• 1959 - The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence.
• 1964 - Paul Simon writes "The Sounds of Silence," the song which, in a year and a half, will catapult him and Art Garfunkel to stardom as Simon & Garfunkel.
• 1985 - Artificial heart patient William Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital.
• 1985 - A Spanish Boeing 747 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
• 1985 - EastEnders first airs on televisions across the United Kingdom, on the first night of a major ident change for BBC1.
• 1986 - The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station.
• 1986 - After waiting 37 years, the United States Senate approves a treaty outlawing genocide.
• 1999 - Dennis Franz receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• 2001 - A Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial Center .
• 2002 - NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.