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• 202 BC - Battle of Zama, resulting in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal.
• 439 - The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
• 1453 - The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
• 1781 - Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered to 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 and Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, VirginiaYorktown is a census-designated place located in York County, Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 203. It is the county seat of York County 6. Geography Yorktown is located at 37°14'4" North, 76°30'35" West (37. 234352, -76., ending the 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.
• 1812Events January 1 the Allgemeines Burgerliches Gesetzbuch, the Austrian civil code enters into force in the Austrian Empire February 2 Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California February 7 The strongest in a series of massive earthqua - Napoleon I of FranceFor other meanings, see Napoleon (disambiguation . Napoleon Bonaparte ( 15 August 1769 5 May 1821) was a general and ruler of France. General of the French Revolution, he was the effective ruler of France starting in 1799: First Consul Premier Consul of t retreats from MoscowMoscow ( Russian: Moskva capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 878. The city's population is rapidly increasing, with 11. 2 million inhabitants counted in 2004. The city is in the federal district called Central Russia (which is.
• 1813 - Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of the worst defeats.
• 1864 - Battle of Cedar Creek - Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys Confederate Army under Jubal Early.
• 1864 - Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
• 1873 - Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
• 1912 - Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
• 1914 - First Battle of Ypres began.
• 1917 - Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
• 1933 - Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
• 1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was first isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
• 1944 - United States forces land in the Philippines.
• 1954 - First ascent of Cho Oyu.
• 1960 - Mauretania gains independence from France.
• 1973 - President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.
• 1982 - John De Lorean arrested for trafficking in cocaine.
• 1983 - Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard.
• 1985 - The first Blockbuster Video store opened in Dallas, Texas.
• 1986 - Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others died when their Tupolev 134 plane crashed into the Lebombo Mountains.
• 1987 - In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of Iran's offshore oil platforms.
• 1987 - ( Black Monday) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%.
• 1989 - Guildford Four convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal - they had spent 15 years in prison through a miscarriage of justice.
• 1991 - Paul Glover bought a " samoza" at the Farmers' Market with Half HOUR #751 — the first use of Ithaca Hours.
• 2003 - Mother Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul II.
• 2004 - Myanmar Prime Minister Khin Nyunt was ousted and placed under house arrest by the Thai government for charges of corruption.
• 2004 - The WWE held the first ever fully interactive pay-per-view Taboo Tuesday in the Bradley Center, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.