2053The Battle of Ticameron begins
2028St Gaius becomes Pope.
2005Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, steps down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.
2004Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
2003Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, assassinated in Belgrade.
2002In Texas, Andrea Yates is found guilty of drowning her five children on June 20, 2001. She is later sentenced to life in prison.
1999Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
1997Mikail Markhasev is arrested in Los Angeles, California and charged with shooting Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son, Ennis Cosby.
1996Leo VIII is elected pope.
1994A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof' of the Loch Ness monster, is confirmed to be a hoax.
1994The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
1993Several bombs explode in Bombay, India killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
1993North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.
1992
1987Les Misérables opens on Broadway.
1968Mauritius achieves independence.
1967Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia.
1960A fire at a chemical plant in Pusan, Korea kills 68.
1958In Hilversum, Netherlands, André Claveau wins the third Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Dors, mon amour" (Sleep, my love).
1956The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 500 for the first time (500.24)
1951The Dennis the Menace comic strip appears in newspapers across the USA for the first time.
1947The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
1940Winter War: Finland signs a harsh peace treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and remaining population are immediately evacuated.
1938Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation declared the following day.
1933Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This was also the first of his "Fireside Chats."
1930Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march known as Dandi March to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
1928In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing 400 people.
1913Canberra becomes the capital of Australia.
1912The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts in the US) are founded in the US.
1894Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time
1803Port Gibson, MS is chartered
1664New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain.

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