1620 - Building of oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges , begins at Quebec City, QuebecCanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe.
1621Events February 9 Gregory XV is elected pope. February 17 Miles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth Colony March 22 The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags. March 16 Samoset, a Mohegan, visits - The Dutch West India CompanyThe Dutch West India Company ( Dutch: West-Indische Compagnie or WIC was a company of Dutch merchants. On June 3, 1621, it was granted a charter for a trade monopoly in the West by the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. The area where the company c receives a charter for New Netherlands.
1658Events January 13 Edward Sexby, who has plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in Tower of London February 6 Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross from Sweden to Denmark over frozen sea May 1 Publication of Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Gar - The PopeThis article is about the Catholic pope. See Pope (disambiguation) for other meanings of the word pope. The Pope is the Catholic bishop and patriarch of Rome, and ex officio supreme spiritual leader of what might be called the Catholic Communion (that is, appoints François de LavalFrancois-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval ( April 30, 1623 in Montigny-sur-Avre, France 1708) was the first bishop of New France. He was appointed when he was 36 years old by Pope Alexander VII. He came from an illustrious part of the French nobility. As earlyvicar apostolic in New France.
1665 - English naval forces defeat the Dutch fleet.
1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German tactical victory and with Allied forces in full evacuation.
1943 - A mob of 60 members of the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beats up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting a week-long race riot.
1950 - First ascent of Annapurna I, 10th highest mountain in the world.
1953 - Billy Joe McAllister jumps off the Tallahatchee Bridge, according to the 1967 hit song Ode to Billy Joe by Bobbie Gentry, and the movie which followed.
1979 - A blowout at the Ixtoc oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons.
1989 - The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.