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Syrian civil war: Following the completion of the Afrin offensive, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) initiate an insurgency against the Turkish occupation of the Afrin District.

2018

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Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

2006

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Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged 2006 Belarusian presidential election, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.

2006

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The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).

1996

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WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.

1995

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The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.

1988

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The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

1979

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Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by his nephew.

1975

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The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.

1971

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Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile (80 km) march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

1965

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Chain Island is sold by the State of California to Russell Gallaway III, a Sacramento businessman who plans to use it as a "hunting and fishing retreat", for $5,258.20 ($58,072 in 2025).

1959

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United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.

1957

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The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.

1957

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More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.

1949

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The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

1948

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An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.

1947

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The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.

1941

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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is unveiled in Athens.

1932

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The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.

1931

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On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.

1924

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The Tetiev pogrom occurs in Ukraine, becoming the prototype of mass murder during the Holocaust.

1919

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The Belarusian People's Republic is established.

1918

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The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.

1917

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The Greek multi-sport club Aris Thessaloniki is founded in Thessaloniki.

1914

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In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.

1911

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Andrey Yushchinsky is murdered in Kiev, leading to the Beilis affair.

1911

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The Greek football club P.A.E. G.S. Diagoras is founded in the city of Rhodes.

1905

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Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.

1894

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Last issue of the Bulletin de la Fédération jurassienne, the first or one of the first anarchist newspapers.

1878

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American Civil War: In Virginia during the Siege of Petersburg, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union before being repulsed.

1865

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New Zealand Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army.

1845

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Greek War of Independence: Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 February 1821 (Julian calendar).

1821

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Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

1811

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The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.

1807

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The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.

1802

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American Revolutionary War – American Patriots conduct a Raid on Tybee Island, primarily seeking to capture runaway slaves who sought refuge with British forces stationed there.

1776

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Daskalogiannis leads the people of Sfakia in the first Greek uprising against the Ottoman rule

1770

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Bach's chorale cantata "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1", is first performed on the Feast of the Annunciation, coinciding with Palm Sunday.

1725

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A French fleet anchors nears Fife Ness as part of the planned French invasion of Britain.

1708

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Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.

1655

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Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.

1584

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Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London.

1576

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Hernán Cortés, entering province of Tabasco, defeats Tabascan Indians.

1519

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The Yongle Emperor of Ming China launches the first of his military campaigns against the Mongols, resulting in the fall of the Mongol khan Bunyashiri.

1410

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The Council of Pisa convenes, in an attempt to heal the Western Schism.

1409

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Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland).

1306

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Coronation of Robert of Courtenay as Emperor of the Latin Empire.

1221

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The Great German Pilgrimage is attacked on Good Friday by Beduin bandits, suffering heavy losses.

1065

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Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah assassinates the eunuch chief minister Barjawan and assumes control of the government.

1000

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Romanos Lekapenos seizes the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople and becomes regent of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII.

919

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Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter a monastery, allowing Leo III to take the throne and begin the Isaurian dynasty.

717

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Election of Pope Constantine following the death of Pope Sisinnius. He would be the last pope to visit Constantinople until 1967.

708

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Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.

421

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The Southern Yan capital of Guanggu falls to the Jin dynasty general Liu Yu, ending the Southern Yan dynasty.

410

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