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• 1328 - Philip VI is crowned King of France.
• 1703 - Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
• 1813 - War of 1812: In Canada, United States forces capture Fort George.
• 1849 - Great Hall of Euston stationEuston station (also known as London Euston , is a large railway station in Central London. The station is the southern terminus of the West Coast Main Line with trains to and from Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow, as well as many local services. It is, LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri opened.
• 1883Events January January 16 The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil service, is passed January 19 The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service ( Roselle, New Jersey) It was built by Thomas E - Alexander IIIAlexander Alexandrovich Romanov or Alexander III ( III ) ( March 10, 1845 November 1, 1894) was the Emperor ( Tsar) of Russia from March 14, 1881 until his death on November 1, 1894. Principles Alexander was the second son of Alexander II and in natural d crowned Tsar of RussiaThe Russian Federation ( Russian: , transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija , or Russia (Russian: , transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija , is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. With.
• 1895Events January events January 5 Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. February events February 14 First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnes - Oscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde ( October 16, 1854— November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. One of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day, h is sent to prison for " sodomy".
• 1896 - An F5 tornado hits in East Saint Louis, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri killing 255. (see East St. Louis Tornado.
• 1901 - In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
• 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Tsushima; decisive defeat of Russian fleet.
• 1907 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
• 1919 - NC-4 arrives in Lisbon, completing first transatlantic airplane flight.
• 1923 - The first 24 hours of Le Mans race ends.
• 1924 - The Music Corporation of America (MCA) is founded.
• 1927 - Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.
• 1933 - New Deal: The Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
• 1933 - Disney releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
• 1933 - The Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago, Illinois.
• 1935 - New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
• 1936 - The RMS Queen Mary begins her maiden voyage.
• 1937 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.
• 1940 - World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk. The German commander, Captain Fritz Knochlein , is eventually hanged for war crimes.
• 1941 - World War II: President Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
• 1941 - World War II: German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing 2,300.
• 1960 - In Turkey, General Cemal Gürsel leads a military coup d'état removing President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government.
• 1963 - folk singer Bob Dylan releases The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best-known songs
• 1964 - Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: United States warships begin bombardments of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam for the first time.
• 1968 - George W. Bush enlists in the Texas Air National Guard.
• 1972 - President of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev and President of the United States Richard Nixon sign the SALT I agreements.
• 1973 - According to the non-retroactive copyright laws of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics , all works published before this date are public domain. This applies worldwide.
• 1974 - Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1995 - In Charlottesville, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
• 1996 - First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the war.
• 1997 - A F5 tornado slams into the small town of Jarrell, Texas killing 27. (See Jarrell Tornado.)
• 1998 - Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
• 1999 - The International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Miloševic and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

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