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• 307 - After divorcing his wife Minerva, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
• 1774 - American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed in the Boston Port Act.
• 1854 - Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honshese government, opening the ports of ShimodaShimoda is the name of several places or a character. In Japan Shimoda City in Shizuoka Prefecture. Shimoda Town in Aomori Prefecture. Donald Shimoda is the name of the main character in Illusions by Richard Bach. and Hakodate to AmericanThe 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 trade.
• 18661866 is a common year starting on Monday. Events January 6 Ottoman troops clash with men of a Maronite leader Karam in St. Doumit in Lebanon Turks are defeated January 12 Royal Aeronautical Society is formed ( London) January 28 800 Maronite troops clash - Spanish Navy bombs the harbour of Valparaíso, Chile
• 18851885 is a common year starting on Thursday (click on link for calendar) Events January January 4 The first successful appendectomy is performed (Dr. William Grant; patient was Mary Gartside). January 20 L. Thompson patents the roller coaster. January 26 T - The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
• 1889 - The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated.
• 1903 - Richard Pearse is reputed to have flown a heavier than air machine in powered flight near Pleasant Point , South Canterbury, New Zealand; some claim 1902
• 1906 - The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for amateur sports in the United States.
• 1909 - Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• 1917 - The United States takes possession of the U.S. Virgin Islands after paying $25 million to Denmark.
• 1918 - Daylight Savings Time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
• 1930 - The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next forty years.
• 1931 - An earthquake destroys Managua Nicaragua killing 2,000.
• 1933 - The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment.
• 1959 - The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
• 1964 - The Dictatorship in Brazil , under the aegis of general Castello Branco, begins.
• 1966 - The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first spaceprobe to enter orbit around the Moon.
• 1967 - Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar for the first time at London's Astoria Theatre. He is sent to the hospital afterwards for burns on his hands.
• 1970 - Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit).
• 1985 - The first ever WrestleMania is held in New York City's Madison Square Garden.
• 1986 - A Mexicana Boeing 727 enroute to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City killing 166
• 1990 - Thunder Meets Lightning: Julio César Chávez defeats Meldrick Taylor to unify boxing's world junior welterweight title in a very controversial fight.
• 1991 - The Warsaw Pact comes to an end.
• 1992 - The television news program Dateline NBC premieres.
• 1993 - Actor Brandon Lee is accidentally killed during the filming of The Crow.
• 1994 - The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull (see Human evolution).
• 1998 - Netscape gives the code base of its browser under an open source license agreement, thus creating Mozilla, a non-lucrative organization in order to oversee the development.
• 2004 - Google announces Gmail, the first web-based mail service to offer 1 gigabyte of storage.