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705
Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty.
1316
Battle of Picotin between Ferdinand of Majorca and the forces of Matilda of Hainaut
1371
Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
1495
King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
1632
Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1651
St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast, drowning 15,000 people.
1744
War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon causes several Royal Navy captains to be court-martialed, and the Articles of War to be amended.
1797
The last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1819
By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1821
Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis crosses the Prut river at Sculeni into the Danubian Principalities.
1847
Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista: Five thousand American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans troops.
1848
The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.
1853
Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
1855
The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania).
1856
The United States Republican Party opens its first national convention in Pittsburgh.
1862
Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
1872
The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
1879
In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
1899
Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine-American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
1904
The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1907
Robert Baden-Powell made the first scouting camp in Brownsea, England.
1909
The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
1915
World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1921
After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
1924
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio address from the White House.
1942
World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
1943
World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
1944
World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
1944
World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog.
1948
Communist coup in Czechoslovakia.
1957
Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
1958
Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
1959
Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1972
The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
1973
Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
1974
The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
1980
Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.
1983
The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
1986
Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1994
Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
1995
The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1997
In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
2002
Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
2005
The 6.4 Mw Zarand earthquake shakes the Kerman Province of Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 612 people dead and 1,411 injured.
2006
At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
2011
New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people.
2011
Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
2012
A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
2014
President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328-0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.
2015
A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.

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