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• 3761 BC - The first day of the Hebrew Calendar.
• 394 - Battle of Frigidus : The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish general Arbogast .
• 1522 - The Vittoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to San Lucar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
• 1620 - The Pilgrims sail from PlymouthThis article is about Plymouth, England. For articles about other uses of Plymouth, see Plymouth (disambiguation). Plymouth (Latitude: 50°25N, Longitude: 4°5W) is a city and unitary authority in South West England, situated in the traditional county of De, EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England, on the MayflowerThe Mayflower was the ship which transported the Pilgrim Fathers from Plymouth, England to " North Virginia" (in what was later to become the United States of America) in 1620, leaving Plymouth on September 6 and dropping anchor near Cape Cod on November to settle in North AmericaNorth America is the third largest continent in area and the fourth ranked in population. It is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific Ocea.
• 1628Events March 1 writs were issued in February 1628 by Charles I of England that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date August 10 The Swedish 64 gun sailing ship HMS Wasa sinks on her maiden voyage September 6 Puritans se - PuritanThe Puritans were members of a group of radical Protestants which developed in England after the Reformation. Terminology The word puritan is now applied unevenly to a number of Protestant churches from the late sixteenth century to the early eighteenth cs settle SalemSalem is a city located in Essex County, Massachusetts. Many people associate the city with the Salem witch trials of 1692, which the city utilizes as a tourist attraction. The city is also commonly confused with the Salem on the soap opera Days of Our Li which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay ColonyThe Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called by the name Massachusetts Bay Company for the institution that founded it) was the direct predecessor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and then the state of Massachusetts. The colony was established under.
• 1781 - The Battle of Groton Heights takes place with the result of a British minor victory
• 1847 - Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control the mouth of the Tennessee River.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
• 1870 - Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming, votes in the morning, becoming the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
• 1885 - Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria.
• 1901 - American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
• 1915 - The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.
• 1937 - Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco .
• 1939 - World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
• 1941 - Holocaust: The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word " Jew" inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.
• 1948 - Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
• 1949 - Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
• 1965 - War of 1965: India attacks Pakistan and announces that its forces will capture Lahore (city of Pakistan) in an hour.
• 1966 - In Cape Town, the South African architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
• 1968 - Swaziland becomes independent.
• 1970 - Four passenger jets are simultaneously hijacked. Two are taken to Dawson's Field.
• 1972 - Munich Massacre: Israeli athletes and coaches are killed when police assault Black September members in a failed hostage rescue in West Germany.
• 1976 - Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido in Japan and requests political asylum from the United States.
• 1983 - The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
• 1985 - Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 , a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
• 1986 - In Istanbul, two Arab terrorists from Abu Nidal's terror organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
• 1991 - The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• 1991 - The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed "Leningrad" in 1924.
• 1995 - With the jury absent, Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman invokes his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson.
• 1995 - Cal Ripken Jr. breaks Lou Gehrig's record of playing 2131 consecutive baseball games.
• 1997 - The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales at Westminster Abbey draws large crowds
• 2000 - In New York City, the United Nations Millennium Summit begins with more than 180 world leaders present.
• 2001 - Microsoft antitrust case: The United States Justice Department announces that it was no longer seeking to break-up software maker Microsoft and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty.