| 392 | | Theodosius of Rome passes legislation prohibiting all pagan worship in the empire. |
| 1226 | | Louis IX succeeds Louis VIII as king of France. |
| 1576 | | The 17 provinces of the Netherlands form a federation to maintain peace. |
| 1620 | | The King of Bohemia is defeated at the Battle of Prague. |
| 1685 | | Fredrick William of Brandenburg issues the Edict of Potsdam, offering Huguenots refuge. |
| 1793 | | The Louvre opens in Paris. But wasn't it already a Palace and it merely opens to the people? |
| 1861 | |
Charles Wilkes seizes Confederate commissioners
John Slidell and James M. Mason from the British ship Trent. |
| 1864 | |
President Abraham Lincoln is re-elected in the first
wartime election in the United States. |
| 1887 | |
Doc Holliday, who fought on the side of the Earp
brothers during the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 6 years earlier, dies of tuberculosis
in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. |
| 1889 | | Montana becomes the 41st state of the Union. |
| 1900 | | Theodore Dresier's first novel Sister Carrie is published by Doubleday, but is recalled from stores shortly due to public sentiment. |
| 1904 | |
President Theodore Roosevelt is elected president
of the United States. He had been vice president until the shooting death of President
William McKinley. |
| 1910 | | The Democrats prevail in congressional elections for the first time since 1894. |
| 1923 | |
Adolf Hitler attempts a coup in Munich, the "Beer
Hall Putsch," and proclaims himself chancellor and Ludendorff dictator. .
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| 1932 | | Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected 32nd president of the United States. |
| 1938 | | Crystla Bird Fauset of Pennsylvania, becomes the first African-American woman to be elected to a state legislature. |
| 1942 | |
The United States and Great Britain invade Axis-occupied
North Africa. |
| 1960 | | John F. Kennedy is elected 35th president, defeating Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the closest election, by popular vote, since 1880. |
| 1966 | | Republican Edward Brooke of Massachusetts becomes the first African American elected to the Senate in 85 years. |
| 1983 | | Wilson B. Goode is elected as the first black mayor of the city of Philadelphia. |
| 1988 | | George H. Bush is elected the 41st president of the United States. |
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