Happy Valentines Day! If you are
looking to impress you might want to go over to Brainy History
to see what has happened in history on this day. It is a day of celebration of
love, but there have been some other notable events through history on this day
as well. Here is a partial list to start you off on your journey of exploration of this day of love.
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2015 GM
issues a recall of over 81,000 vehicles due to potential power steering
problems; 2006 and 2007 models of the Pontiac G6, Chevrolet Malibu, and Malibu
Maxx are affected
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2014 The
Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, now the world's largest solar energy
plant, opens in the Mojave Desert; the $2.2 billion plant, owned by Google, NRG
Energy, and BrightSource energy, spans five square miles and can provide power
to 140,000 homes
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2014 Italy's
Prime Minister, Enrico Letta resigns following friction within his own
Democratic party
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2013 Bankrupt
carrier, American Airlines and U.S. Airways merge, forming the world's largest
air carrier, to trade under the name, American Airlines
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2013 U.S.
Senate Republicans filibuster the nomination of Chuck Hagel as U.S. Secretary
of Defense, demanding answers to questions about President Obama and Benghazi
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2012 A
new statue of Kim Jong-il, North Korea's late leader is unveiled in the capital
of Pyongyang
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2012 Love
letters written between poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning are
published online by Wellesley College and Baylor University
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2011 Palestinian
Authority cabinet members resign and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will select
new ministers at the request of President Mahmoud Abbas
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2011 China
reports its trade surplus for January is $6.5 billion; the figure is less than
expected
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2010 Viktor
Yanukovych is declared the official winner of Ukraine's presidential election
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2001 Near
Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft becomes first vehicle to land on an
asteroid (433 Eros)
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1995 Roseanne
weds bodyguard Ben Thomas
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1995 Wellington
2-498d and 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 and 2-476d
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1994 Alexander
Golubev skates Olympic record 500m (36.33)
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1994 Grateful
Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons
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1993 Fire
in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
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1992 Andre
Cason runs world record 6 m indoor (6.41 sec)
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1992 Cease
fire in Somalia begins
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1992 Kieren
John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60)
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1992 Merlene
Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec)
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1991 "Mule
Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater New York City for 67 performances
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1991 NL
Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration
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1990 Alan
Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment," premieres in London
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1990 Perrier
recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a
carcinogen, are found in some
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1990 Space
probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
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1989 African
National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
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1989 Boxer
Mike Tyson divorces actress Robin Givens
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1989 Khomeini
orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie
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1989 Robin
Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dom Rep
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1989 Union
Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster
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1989 World's
1st satellite Skyphone opens
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1988 49th
PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player
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1988 Alfredo
Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay
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1988 Bobby
Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500
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1988 General
hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden
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1988 Patty
Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
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1987 53,745
largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit
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1985 Hostage
CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
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1984 Singer
Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney, Australia
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1982 "Night
of 100 Stars" takes place at New York's Radio City Music Hall
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1982 Hollis
Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
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1980 "West
Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 341 performances
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1980 13th
Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, New York
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1980 U.S.
launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
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1979 "Whoopee!"
opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 204 performances
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1978 1st
"micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments
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1978 In
girls' High School basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St. George
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1976 U.S.
performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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1975 Bomb
explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
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1972 John
and Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week
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1972 Luna
20 (Russia) launched to orbit and soft landing on Moon
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1971 Movie
"Ben Hur" 1st shown on television
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1971 Richard
Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
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1970 "Gantry"
closes at George Abbott Theater New York City after 1 performance
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1968 Pennsylvania
Railroad/New York City Central merge into Penn Central
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1968 WHKY
TV channel 14 in Hickory, North Carolina (IND) begins broadcasting
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1967 Aretha
Franklin records "Respect"
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1967 Latin
American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up
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1966 Australia
introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps
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1966 Wilt
Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points
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1966 Writers
Andrei Sinjavski and Joeij Daniel found guilty
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1963 U.S.
launches communications satellite Syncom 1
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1962 1st
lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV
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1961 Element
103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley California
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1961 Louise
Suggs wins LPGA Royal Poinciana Golf Invitational
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1960 Beverly
Hanson wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open
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1960 Marshal
Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan
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1959 $3.6
million heroin seizure in New York City
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1958 Arab
Federation of Iraq and Jordan forms
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1957 Georgia
Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from
playing baseball with whites
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1956 20th
Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
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1956 Indonesia
withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union
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1956 Verhoeven/Nauta/De
King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
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1955 WFLA
(now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (NBC) begins
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1954 Beverly
Hanson wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open
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1954 Senator
John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
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1954 WTOC
TV channel 11 in Savannah, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting
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1952 6th
Olympic winter games open at Oslo, Norway
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1952 Comedian
Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller
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1951 Sugar
Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta and takes middleweight title
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1950 Moroney
scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg
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1950 U.S.S.R.
and China sign peace treaty
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1949 1st
session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel)
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1949 Dutch
Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses
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1946 Bank
of England nationalized
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1945 8th
Air Force bombs Dresden
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1945 Peru,
Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador joins UN
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1944 Anti-Japanese
revolt on Java
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1944 Carl
Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial and Sport Fishing
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1943 German
offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia
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1943 Soviets
recapture Rostov
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1942 Japanese
parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
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1942 Rotterdam's
Maas tunnel opens
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1941 1,000,000th
vehicle traverses the New York Midtown Tunnel
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1941 Carson
McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published
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1941 Cebrie
Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
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1941 German
Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
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1940 British
merchant vessel fleet is armed
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1939 Victor
Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of 'Gone With the Wind'
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1936 U.S.
Female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
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1936 U.S.
Male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
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1934 NHL
Ace Bailey Benefit Game: Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto
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1932 South
Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings vs. Australia (Ironmonger 5-6)
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1931 Bradman
scores 152 Australia vs. WI, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives
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1931 Spanish
Government of General Damasco Berenguer falls
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1929 St.
Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed
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1925 State
of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed
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1924 IBM
Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
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1921 Canadian
5 cent nickel coin is authorized
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1921 Little
Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," NY
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1920 League
of Women Voters forms in Chicago
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1919 United
Parcel Service forms
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1918 H
Atteridge and S Rombergs musical "Sinbad," premieres in New York City
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1918 U.S.S.R.
adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally Feb 1)
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1914 High
Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
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1912 1st
U.S. submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Connecticut
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1912 Arizona
was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
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1907 1st
U.S. fox hound association forms in New York City
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1903 U.S.
Department of Commerce and Labor forms
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1900 Date
of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
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1899 U.S.
Congress begins using voting machines
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1896 George
Lohmann takes a hat-trick vs. South Africa, 8-7 for inning
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1896 South
Africa all out for 30 vs. England - their lowest ever
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1896 Stanley
Cup: Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias, 2-0
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1896 Theodor
Herzl publishes "Der Judenstaat"
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1895 Oscar
Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," opens in London
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1894 Venus
is both a morning star and evening star
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1890 1st
NSW vs. South Australia 1st-class cricket game
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1889 1st
train load of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for east
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1887 Cubs
sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000
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1883 1st
state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions
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1879 Chilean
troops occupy Antofagasta
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1876 A
G Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court
eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
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1872 1st
state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt, California)
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1867 Hartford
Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. issues 1st policy
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1867 Morehouse
College organizes (Augusta Georgia)
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1862 Galena,
1st U.S. iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut
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1859 Oregon
admitted as 33rd state
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1848 James
K. Polk became 1st President photographed in office by Matthew Brady
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1803 Apple
parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Pennsylvania
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1794 1st
U.S. textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia
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1778 "Stars
and Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
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1766 Dutch
governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels
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1746 Henry
Pelham appointed English premier
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1711 Handels
opera Rinaldo, premieres
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1689 English
parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne
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1670 Roman
Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
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1630 Dutch
fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil
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1613 King
James I's daughter Elizabeth marries Frederik
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1610 Polish
king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 and Romanov family sign covenant against
czar Vasili Shushki
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1556 Archbishop
Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic
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1540 Emperor
Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
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1130 Jewish
Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
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1076 Pope
Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV
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1014 Pope
Benedict VIII crowns Henry II, Roman German emperor
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842 Charles
II and Louis the German sign treaty
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