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Events
275 - M. Claudius Tacitus is appointed Roman emperor by the senate.
303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era.
1396 - Ottoman Emperor Beyazid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached the Pacific Ocean.
1555 - The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
1690 - "Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick", the first newspaper published in the Americas, published for the first and only time.
1789 - The Congressional Apportionment Amendment to the United States Constitution is proposed at the U.S. Congress.
1804 - The Teton Sioux (a subdivison of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Corps of Discovery as a toll for moving further upriver.
1846 - U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of Monterrey.
1890 - Yosemite National Park established in California.
1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
1929 - Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from General Mitchell leading to the development of Instrument Flying.
1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated through the use of United States Army troops.
1959 - Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister of Sri Lanka is assassinated by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
1962 - The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
1970 - The Partridge Family debuts on ABC-TV and would run for four years.
1972 - In the Norwegian EC referendum, 1972, the people of Norway reject membership.
1978 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
1980 - The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was the 102nd Justice sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman to hold the office.
1988 - Monty Python member Michael Palin sets out from London's Reform Club to start his BBC documentary Around the World in 80 Days.
1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums was closed in Ireland.
2002 - The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
2003 - A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaido, Japan.
2005 - The Hide (Matsumoto "Hide" Hideto) museum closed due to the lack of funds. (Japan).
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