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The Baltic states synchronize their electric power transmission infrastructure with the Continental Europe Synchronous Area (CESA), in objective to disconnect from the Russo-Belarussian agreement to use the IPS/UPS system.

2025

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Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins.

2021

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Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has the army soldiers enter the Legislative Assembly to assist in pushing for the approval for a better government security plan, causing a brief political crisis.

2020

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Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea.

2018

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Two passenger trains collide in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people die and 85 others are injured.

2016

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The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision takes place, killing nine of the thirty-five people on board the Japanese fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru, leaving the USS Greeneville (SSN-772) with US $2 million in repairs, at Pearl Harbor.

2001

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The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people.

1996

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Copernicium is discovered by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al.

1996

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Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union.

1991

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Civil unrest broke out across Palestine.

1987

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Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.

1986

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Japan Air Lines Flight 350 crashes near Haneda Airport in an attempted pilot mass murder-suicide, killing 24 of the 174 people on board.

1982

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The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1978

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Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24.

1976

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The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.

1975

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The 6.5–6.7 Mw  Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000.

1971

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Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.

1971

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Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third human Moon landing.

1971

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Vietnam War: The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission.

1965

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The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the United States.

1964

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The Beatles at the Cavern Club: Lunchtime – The Beatles perform under this name at The Cavern Club for the first time following their return to Liverpool from Hamburg.

1961

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The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.

1959

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Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea.

1951

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Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.

1950

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World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.

1945

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World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.

1945

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World War II: Pacific War: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.

1943

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Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.

1942

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World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.

1941

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The Balkan Entente is formed between Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey.

1934

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Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law.

1932

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Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.

1929

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Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

1922

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Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.

1920

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A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of the Americas, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.

1913

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The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).

1907

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Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.

1904

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The Davis Cup competition is established.

1900

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William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.

1895

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Verdi's last opera, Falstaff premieres at La Scala, Milan.

1893

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US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.

1889

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US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.

1870

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American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama

1861

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The new Roman Republic is declared.

1849

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After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as sixth President of the United States in a contingent election.

1825

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Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the other side of the island of Hispaniola.

1822

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Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.

1778

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American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.

1775

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The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.

1654

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Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.

1621

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Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.

1555

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The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee.

1539

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A First Crusade army led by Bohemond of Taranto wins a major battle against the Seljuq emir Ridwan of Aleppo during the siege of Antioch.

1098

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Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.

1003

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Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire

474

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