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Events - 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
- 1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
- 1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
- 1749 - Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
- 1777 - American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
- 1815 - Austria, Britain, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
- 1823 - Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
- 1825 - Rensselaer School, the first engineering college in the U.S. is opened in Troy, New York. It is now known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
- 1833 - Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
- 1834 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City.
- 1848 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia.
- 1861 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
- 1868 - Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
- 1870 - The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
- 1871 - Henry W. Bradley patents oleomargarine.
- 1888 - The 91 cm refracting telescope at Lick Observatory is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
- 1888 - Marvin C. Stone patents the drinking straw.
- 1899 - The first known use of the word automobile, in an editorial in The New York Times.
- 1921 - Turkey makes peace with Armenia.
- 1924 - English explorer Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.
- 1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
- 1932 - Martial law declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit.
- 1933 - Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of a legislative body in the USA.
- 1938 - The March of Dimes is established by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1938 - Woman in White is first broadcast on the NBC Red network. The program remains on the radio for the next ten years.
- 1944 - World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.
- 1945 - Admiral Chester W Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan itself.
- 1947 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
- 1951 - Dragnet is first broadcast on NBC-TV.
- 1953 - Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
- 1957 - Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
- 1958 - The West Indies Federation is formed.
- 1959 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
- 1961 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
- 1961 - The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, leaks radiation, killing three workers.
- 1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
- 1973 - George Steinbrenner buys the New York Yankees from CBS for 3.2 million dollars
- 1977 - Apple Computer was incorporated.
- 1983 - CiTV launches on ITV in the UK.
- 1987 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- 1988 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th Century.
- 1990 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
- 1991 - Gulf War: The British government announces the expulsion of 75 Iraqis from the country.
- 1993 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
- 1994 - An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkutsk, Russia, killing 125 people including one on the ground.
- 1997 - The People's Republic of China announces it will spend $27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys.
- 1999 - The Mars Polar Lander launches.
- 1999 - Israel detains, later to expel, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
- 2004 - Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people aboard.
- 2007 - National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport when it was travelling to Glasgow
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