| 1570 |
|
Pope Pius V issues the bull Regnans in Excelsis
which excommunicates Queen Elizabeth of England. |
| 1601 |
|
Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex and
former favorite of Elizabeth I, is beheaded in the Tower of London for high
treason. |
| 1642 |
|
Dutch settlers slaughter lower Hudson Valley
Indians in New Netherland, North America, who sought refuge from Mohawk
attackers. |
| 1779 |
|
The British surrender the Illinois country to
George Rogers Clark at Vincennes. |
| 1781 |
|
American General Nathaniel Greene crosses the
Dan River on his way to attack Cornwallis. |
| 1791 |
|
President George Washington sign a bill creating
the Bank of the United States. |
| 1804 |
|
Thomas Jefferson is nominated for president
at the Democratic-Republican caucus. |
| 1815 |
|
Napoleon leaves his exile on the island of Elba,
returning to France. |
| 1831 |
|
The Polish army halts the Russian advance into
their country at the Battle of Grochow. |
| 1836 |
|
Samuel Colt patents the first revolving cylinder
multi-shot firearm. |
| 1862 |
|
Confederate troops abandon Nashville, Tennessee,
in the face of Grant's advance. The ironclad Monitor is commissioned at
the Brooklyn Navy Yard. |
| 1865 |
|
General Joseph E. Johnston replaces John Bell
Hood as Commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. |
| 1904 |
|
J.M. Synge's play Riders to the Sea opens
in Dublin. |
| 1910 |
|
The Dalai Lama flees from the Chinese and takes
refuge in India. |
| 1919 |
|
Oregon introduces the first state tax on gasoline
at one cent per gallon, to be used for road construction. |
| 1913 |
|
The 16th Amendment to the constitution is adopted,
setting the legal basis for the income tax. |
| 1926 |
|
Poland demands a permanent seat on the League
of Nations council. |
| 1928 |
|
Bell Labs introduces a new device to end the
fluttering of the television image. |
| 1943 |
|
U.S. troops retake the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia,
where they had been defeated five days before. |
| 1944 |
|
U.S. forces destroy 135 Japanese planes in Marianas
and Guam. |
| 1952 |
|
French colonial forces evacuate Hoa Binh in
Indochina. |
| 1956 |
|
Stalin is secretly disavowed by Khrushchev at
a party congress for promoting the "cult of the individual." |
| 1976 |
|
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states may
ban the hiring of illegal aliens. |
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