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Reason
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| Republic Day
in Italy
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unreferenced stub
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| 455
? Following the death of
Western Roman Emperor
Valentinian?III
, the
Vandals
led by
King Genseric
sacked Rome
, looting treasure from the city and taking Empress
Licinia Eudoxia
and her daughters hostage.
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Vandals
has refimprove section,
Sack of Rome (455)
is stubby
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| 1098
?
First Crusade
: The first
Siege of Antioch
ended as
Crusader
forces captured the city, but the
Seljuk Turks
would later start a second siege of
Antioch
a few days later.
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unreferenced sections, refimprove section
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| 1763
?
Pontiac's War
: The local
Ojibwe
captured
Fort Michilimackinac
in present-day
Mackinaw City, Michigan
, after diverting the garrison's attention with a game of
stickball
, then chasing a ball into the fort.
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needs more footnotes
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| 1924
?
U.S. President
Calvin Coolidge
signed the
Indian Citizenship Act
into law, granting
citizenship
to all
Native Americans
born within the territorial limits of the United States.
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no footnotes
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| 1946
? Italians
voted
to abolish
the monarchy
and establish the Italian Republic, exiling King
Umberto?II
.
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refimprove
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| 1966
?
Surveyor 1
landed on the Moon.
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no footnotes
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| 1995
?
United States Air Force
Captain
Scott O'Grady
was shot down by a
Bosnian Serb Army
SA-6
surface-to-air missile
while patrolling the
NATO
no-fly zone
over Bosnia in an
F-16
, but he was able to
eject
safely and was then rescued six days later.
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inappropriate tone
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| 2003
? The
Mars Express
space probe
, the first planetary mission of the
European Space Agency
, was
launched
.
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refimprove
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- 1774
?
Intolerable Acts
: To restore imperial control over the
Thirteen Colonies
, the
Parliament of Great Britain
passed a second
Quartering Act
, reenacting a law requiring colonists to provide housing for British soldiers.
- 1866
?
Fenian raids
: The
Battle of Ridgeway
, the first to be fought only by Canadian troops and led exclusively by Canadian officers, took place in
Ontario
.
- 1886
?
Grover Cleveland
became the only
U.S. President
to marry in the
White House
when he wed
Frances Folsom
.
- 1919
?
First Red Scare
:
Anarchist
followers of
Luigi Galleani
set off eight bombs
in eight cities across the United States.
- 1967
? German university student
Benno Ohnesorg
was killed during a protest in
West Berlin
against the visit of
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
,
Shah of Iran
, sparking the formation of the militant group
Movement 2?June
.
- 1983
? After an
emergency landing
because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard
Air Canada Flight 797
were killed when a
flashover
occurred as the plane's doors opened.
- 1994
? The
Royal Air Force
suffered its worst peacetime disaster when a
Chinook helicopter
crashed
on the
Mull of Kintyre
, Scotland, killing all 29 people on board.
- 2010
? A lone gunman went on
shooting spree
on
Cumbrum
on Brettum, and ofsl?g 12 menn and derode 11 before committing suicide.
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