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• 1625 - King Charles I is married to the French princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon
• 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
• 1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded.
• 1805 - Lewis and Clark ExpeditionThe Lewis and Clark expedition ( 1804- 1806) was the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back. The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 sparked the interest of United States in expansion to the west coast. A few weeks after the purchase, Uni: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether LewisCharles Willson Peale Meriwether Lewis ( August 18, 1774 October 11, 1809) was an American explorer, soldier, and public administrator; he is best known for his role as the leader of the Corps of Discovery. Lewis was born in Albemarle County, Virginia (ne and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River .
• 1881Events January 16- 24 ? Siege of Geok Tepe ? Russian troops under general Skobeleff defeat Turkomans January 25 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company February 5 Phoenix, Arizona is incorporated. February 13 First issu - The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic OceanThe Arctic Ocean located entirely in the north polar region, is the smallest of the world's five oceans (after the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Southern Ocean), and the shallowest. It occupies a roughly circular basin and covers an are ice pack.
• 18861886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) Events January 18 Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. January 29 Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. March - A fireFor other uses see fire (disambiguation). bonfire The word fire is used to refer to the combination of the brilliant glow and large amount of heat released during a rapid, self-sustaining exothermic oxidation process of combustible gases ejected from a fu devastates much of Vancouver, British ColumbiaBritish Columbia or simply B. French: la Colombie-Britannique is the westernmost of Canada's provinces. It was the sixth province to join the confederation of Canada (in 1871). As of 2004, the population was 4,168,123 British Columbians . Geography Its ca.
• 1898 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
• 1920 - The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post .
• 1927 - A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City. [1]
• 1934 - Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".
• 1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information , a center for production of propaganda.
• 1944 - World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets. [2]
• 1953 - Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy
• 1966 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
• 1967 - Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court. [3]
• 1970 - " The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song. [4]
• 1971 - Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers. [5]
• 1977 - Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison 3 days before.
• 1981 - At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
• 1982 - Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
• 1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system. [6]
• 1991 - A spectator was killed by lightning at the U.S. Open golf tournament. [7]
• 1993 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924)
• 1995 - French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.[8]
• 1996 - An 81-day standoff between the Freemen and FBI agents ends with their surrender in Montana.
• 1997 - A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death penalty for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. [9]
• 2004 - A 4 kg meteorite hits the house of Phil and Brenda Archer in Ellerslie , New Zealand, destroying the roof and a couch.