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No wonder I like politics so much ...
49 BC - Julius Caesar's general Gaius Curio is defeated in the Battle of the Bagradas River by the Pompeians under Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio is slain in battle.
AD 79 - Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash.
410 - The Visigoths under Alaric sack Rome for three days
1215 - Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid.
1349 - 6,000 Jews are killed in Mainz because they are blamed for the bubonic plague.
1391 - Jews massacred in Palma de Mallorca.
1456 - The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
1511 - Alfonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers the Sultanate of Malacca.
1572 - Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: On the orders of king Charles IX of France, a massacre of Huguenots (French Protestants) begins.
1608 - The first official British representative to India lands in Surat.
1662 - Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer
1682 - William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
1690 - Calcutta, India is founded.
1814 - British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.
1857 - Beginning of the Panic of 1857, one of the most severe economic crises in US history.
1858 - In Richmond, Virginia, 90 blacks are arrested for learning.
1909 - Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
1912 - Alaska becomes a United States territory.
1914 - German troops capture Namur.
1929 - Turkey and Persia sign a friendship treaty.
1931 - France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
1931 - Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
1936 - The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
1942 - World War II: The Battle of the East Solomon Islands. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryuho is sunk.
1944 - World War II: French and Allied troops start the attack on Paris.
1949 - The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
1950 - Edith Sampson is the first black U.S. delegate to the UN.
1954 - The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed.
1960 - A temperature of −88°C (−127°F) is measured in Vostok, Antarctica — a world-record low.
1963 - The 200 metre freestyle is swum in less than 2 minutes for the first time (Don Schollander in 1:58).
1968 - France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.
1989 - Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991 - Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1992 - Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea.
Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
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