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• 1463 - Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.
• 1477 - Battle of Nancy , Charles the Bold killed, Burgundy becomes part of France.
• 1500 - Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
• 1527 - Martyrdom of Felix Manz, a Swiss Anabaptist.
• 1554 - Great fire in Eindhoven, NetherlandsDutch redirects here. For other uses, see Dutch (disambiguation). The Netherlands ( Dutch: Nederland is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a constitutional monarchy. It is located in northwestern Europe and borders the North Sea, Belgium.
• 1675Events January 5 The Battle of Turckeim August 10 Building of the Royal Greenwich Observatory began November 11 Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. Cassini discovers Saturn's Cassini Division Battle of Fehrbellin Births March 31 Pope Be - Battle of Colmar , French army beats Brandenburg.
• 1759Events January 11 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated. January 13 The Tavora family is executed following the accusation of attempted regicide on Joseph I of Portugal January 15 The British Museum opens - George WashingtonGeorge Washington ( February 22, 1732— December 14, 1799), also called Father of his Country 1 was an American general and Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 1783) and later the first President of the Unite marries Martha Dandridge Curtis.
• 1781Events January 5 American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold. January 30 Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland. January William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister, enters - American Revolutionary WarThe American Revolutionary War ( 1775 1783), also known as the American War of Independence was a war fought between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen of her North American colonies. The war, which eventually widened far beyond British Nor: Richmond, VirginiaRichmond is the capital of Virginia, a state (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia of the United States of America. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 197,790. Like all Virginia municipalities incorporated as cities it is an inde is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
• 1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
• 1854 - The San Francisco steamer sinks, 300 dead.
• 1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
• 1896 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
• 1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
• 1909 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
• 1914 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
• 1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.
• 1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
• 1940 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
• 1944 - The London Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
• 1945 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
• 1948 - Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel ( Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
• 1956 - Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel.
• 1957 - Major league baseballer Jackie Robinson retires.
• 1961 - Television: Mr. Ed debuts.
• 1964 - Pope Paul VI meets the Greek patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem, the first meeting of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity leaders since 1439.
• 1968 - Alexander Dubcek comes to power, " Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
• 1970 - Soap opera: All My Children premieres.
• 1972 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
• 1973 - Netherlands recognizes East Germany.
• 1975 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
• 1976 - Cambodia is renamed Democratic Campuchea.
• 1980 - Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer.
• 1984 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
• 1987 - President of the United States Ronald Reagan undergoes prostate surgery causing worries about his health.
• 1993 - The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands spilling 84,700 tonnes of oil.
• 1993 - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
• 1996 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
• 1997 - Withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya.
• 2000 - The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit.
• 2002 - Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.