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It is 啓蟄 (Keichitsu) in the Japanese calendar.

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• 1447 - Nicholas V becomes Pope.
• 1460 - Treaty of Alcacovas - Portugal gives Castile the Canary Islands in exchange for claims in West Africa.
• 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam.
• 1820Events January 1 Constitutionalist military insurrection at Cadiz leads to summoning of Spanish parliament ( March 7) and restoration of 1812 Constitution ( March 8) by king Ferdinand VII. January 29 George the Prince Regent becomes king George IV of the - The Missouri CompromiseThe Missouri Compromise also called the Compromise of 1820 was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro- slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. A bill to enable is signed into law by President James MonroeJames Monroe Order 5th President Term of Office March 4, 1817 March 3, 1825 Followed James Madison Succeeded by John Quincy Adams Date of Birth April 28, 1758 Place of Birth Westmoreland County, Virginia Date of Death July 4, 1831 Place of Death New York. The compromise allowed MissouriMissouri named after the Missouri Siouan Indian tribe meaning "canoe", is a Midwestern state of the United States with Jefferson City as its capital. The state's nickname is the State the U. Post Office abbreviation for Missouri is MO and the state public to enter the Union as a slave state, but made the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana PurchaseVia the Louisiana Purchase the United States acquired more than 529,911,680 acres (2,144,476 km2) of territory from France in 1803 for $15 million (which, if adjusted for inflation, would equal approximately $184 million in 2003). The French territory of territory slavery-free.
• 1834Events January 1 Abolition of customs charges at borders within Germany. January 3 The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City March 6 York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto. March 18 The Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorset farm l - York, Upper CanadaUpper Canada is an early name for the land at the upstream end of the Saint Lawrence River in early North America the territory south of Lake Nipissing and north of the St. Lawrence River and Lakes Ontario and Erie plus the eastern shoreline of Georgian B is incorporated as Toronto.
• 1836 - Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo - After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 189 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken.
• 1853 - The Giuseppe Verdi opera La Traviata premieres in Venice.
• 1857 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
• 1899 - Bayer registeres aspirin as a trademark.
• 1900 - A coal mine explosion in West Virginia traps 50 coal miners.
• 1901 - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
• 1940 - Winter War: An armistice is signed by Finland and the Soviet Union.
• 1946 - Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
• 1947 - The Newport News , the first air-conditioned naval ship, is launched from Newport News, Virginia.
• 1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
• 1953 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1957 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.
• 1957 - Israel withdraws its troops from the Sinai Peninsula
• 1964 - Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
• 1964 - Tom O'Hara sets a new world record for the indoor mile run by completing it in 3 minutes, 56.4 seconds.
• 1970 - Cult leader and suspected murderer Charles Manson releases an album titled Lies to help finance his defense.
• 1975 - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement over their border dispute.
• 1981 - After 19 years hosting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
• 1983 - The United States Football League begins its first year of competition.
• 1984 - Twelve month long strike in British coal industry begins.
• 1987 - Off the coast of Belgium in the English Channel, the British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes killing 189.
• 1992 - The 'Michelangelo' computer virus begins to affect computers.
• 1997 - Picasso's Tete de Femme is stolen from a London gallery (it was recovered a week later).