962 - Pope John XII[?] crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
1032 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy
1119 - Callixtus II becomes Pope
1536 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza[?] founds Buenos Aires , Argentina .
1653 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City ) is incorporated
1709 - Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
1812 - Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California[?]
1848 - Mexican-American War : The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is singed ending the war.
1848 - California Gold Rush : The first ship with Chinese emigrants seeking fortune in California 's gold country arrive in San Francisco .
1870 - It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant[?] was just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human .
1876 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed
1878 - Greece declares war on Turkey .
1880 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana
1882 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut
1887 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
1897 - The Pennsylvania state capitol is destroyed by fire.
1899 - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne agrees Australia's capital (Canberra ) should be located between Sydney and Melbourne.
1900 - The American League of Major League Baseball is formed
1920 - Estonia declares its independence from Russia
1920 - France occupies Memel
1925 - Dog sleds[?] reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditirod[?] race
1933 - Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament
1935 - The polygraph machine[?] is tested for the first time. Leonard Keeler[?] conducted the experiment in Portage, Wisconsin .
1940 - Frank Sinatra debuts with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra
1943 - World War II : The last Nazi forces surrender to the Soviets following the Battle of Stalingrad .
1945 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave to meet with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference .
1962 - For the first time in 400 years Neptune and Pluto align.
1967 - The American Basketball Association is formed.
1971 - In Uganda after a coup, Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader.
1980 - Abscam : Reports surface that FBI personnel were targeting members of the United States Congress in a sting operation.
1989 - Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan : The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul ending nine years of military occupation.
1990 - Apartheid : In South Africa President[?] F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to legally function again and promises to set Nelson Mandela free.
1650 - Nell Gwynne[?] , actress, royal mistress (+ 1687 )
1711 - Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz , diplomat (+ 1794 )
1754 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand , politician (+ 1838 )
1803 - Albert Sidney Johnston , Confederate general (+ 1862 )
1829 - Alfred Brehm , zoologist (+ 1884 )
1882 - James Joyce , author (+ 1941 )
1895 - George Halas[?] , American football player, coach, co-founder of the [[National Football League (+ 1983 )
1901 - Jascha Heifetz[?] , musician (+ 1987 )
1905 - Ayn Rand , author (+ 1982 )
1906 - Gale Gordon[?] , actor (+ 1995 )
1915 - Abba Eban , diplomat (+ 2002 )
1923 - James Dickey , poet, author (+ 1997 )
1923 - Liz Smith[?] , gossip columnist
1925 - Elaine Stritch[?] , actress
1926 - Valery Giscard d'Estaing , politican
1927 - Stan Getz[?] , musician (+ 1991 )
1931 - Dries van Agt , Dutch politician
1937 - Tom Smothers , musician, comedian, half of the Smothers Brothers
1942 - Graham Nash , musician
1947 - Farrah Fawcet[?] , actress
1947 - Melanie[?] , singer
1950 - Barbara Sukowa[?] , actress
1954 - Christie Brinkley[?] , model
1977 - Shakira , singer
1922 - William Desmond Taylor[?] , film director
1959 - rock and roll performers Buddy Holly , Richie Valens and The Big Bopper , in a plane crash outside Mason City, Iowa
1969 - Boris Karloff , actor
1970 - Bertrand Russell , mathematician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1950 (+ 1970 )
1979 - Sid Vicious of Sex Pistols
1992 - Bert Parks[?] , game show host, Miss America host
1995 - Donald Pleasence , actor
1996 - Gene Kelly , dancer, actor, director
2003 - Lou Harrison , composer
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naucraries, who then administered affairs at Athens , on the condition
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demanding the expulsion of Cleisthenes and of those under the curse,
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families , of which Isagoras had suggested to him the names . Having
offices of the State into the hands of three hundred, who were the
being willing to submit, Cleomenes with Isagoras and his partisans
by common consent and besieged them for two days; and on the third day
under a truce. Thus was accomplished for Cleomenes the ominous saying
the design of taking possession of it, he was going to the sanctuary
up from her seat before he had passed through the door , and said,
is not lawful for Dorians to pass in hither." He said: "Woman , I am
ominous speech , he made his attempt and then was expelled again.
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