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• 41 - Claudius is appointed Emperor of Rome after his nephew, Caligula, is assassinated.
• 1458 - Matthias I Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.
• 1679 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament.
• 1742 - Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman EmperorThe Holy Roman Emperor was, with some variation, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, the predecessor of modern Germany, during its existence from the 10th century until its collapse in 1806. The terminology of the title is somewhat confusing. The title of.
• 18481848 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). Events Sri Lanka The Revolution of 1848 (qv. a series of widespread but failed struggles for more liberal governments, from Brazil to Hungary. January 24 California gold rush: Jame - California gold rush: James W. MarshallJames Wilson Marshall was born in Lambertsville, New Jersey on October 8, 1810. He was the contractor and builder of Sutter's Mill. Sutter contracted with Marshall in August, 1847 to build the mill. He found the first gold in sutter's mill. He died on Aug finds goldFor alternative meanings, see gold (disambiguation Gold is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Au ( L. aurum and atomic number 79. A soft, shiny, yellow, heavy, malleable, ductile (trivalent and univalent) transition metal, gold d at Sutter's MillSutter's Mill was a sawmill owned by 19th century pioneer John Sutter. It was located in Coloma, California at the bank of the American River. Sutter's Mill is most famous for is association with the Californian Gold Rush. It was here that an employee of near SacramentoSacramento is the county seat of Sacramento County, California and the capital of the U. state of California. It was founded in December 1848 by John Sutter. Sacramento was an outgrowth of Sutter's Fort which was established by his father Captain John Sut.
• 1859Events January 2 Erastus Beadle publishes The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette''. February 14 Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U. February 16 George Washington Gale Ferris Jr born February 16, 1859 Galesburg, Knox, IL March 26 French amateur astronomer clai - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania (see December 1 1918 for the final unification, Transylvania and other regions were still missing at this time).
• 1888 - Jacob L. Wortman patents the typewriter ribbon .
• 1908 - Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement.
• 1916 - In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax void.
• 1922 - Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
• 1924 - St. Petersburg, Russia is renamed Leningrad.
• 1936 - Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
• 1952 - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada.
• 1962 - Brian Epstein signs to manage The Beatles.
• 1966 - An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117
• 1972 - Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese soldier, is discovered on Guam.
• 1982 - Super Bowl XVI: San Francisco 49ers defeat the Cincinnati Bengals, 26-21 in the first Super Bowl played north of the Mason-Dixon line
• 1984 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
• 1986 - Voyager 2 passes within 50,679 miles of Uranus.
• 1987 - In Lebanon, gunmen kidnap Alann Steen , Jesse Turner , Robert Polhill and Mitheleshwar Singh .
• 1989 - Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair.
• 1995 - The prosecution delivers its opening statement in the O. J. Simpson murder trial.
• 1996 - Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charge he spied for Moscow.
• 2001 - The last two of the " Texas 7" are taken into custody in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
• 2002 - Enron Congressional hearings begin.
• 2002 - Terrorist suspect John Walker Lindh's hearing begins.
• 2002 - The United States Department of Justice indicts Robert Nicholas Angleton for conspiring to murder his wife, Doris Angleton, along with his brother Roger.
• 2003 - The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.