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• 506 – Alaric
  II, eighth king of the Visigoths
  promulgates The Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex
  Romana Visigothorum) a collection of Roman
  law.
• 962 – Translatio imperii: Pope
  John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the
  first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
• 1032 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
  becomes King of Burgundy.
• 1509 –
  The Battle of Diu takes place near Diu, India,
  between Portugal
  and Turkey.
• 1536 – Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos
  Aires, Argentina.
• 1542 – Portuguese
  under Christovão da Gama
  capture a Moslem-occupied hill fort in northern Ethiopia
  in the Battle of Baçente.
• 1653 – New
  Amsterdam (later renamed The
  City of New York) is incorporated.
• 1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a
  desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel
  Defoe.
• 1790 –
  The Supreme Court of the United
  States convenes for the first time.
• 1812 – Russia
  establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California.
• 1848 – Mexican-American War:
  The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is
  signed.
• 1848 – California Gold Rush: The first ship
  with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco, California.
• 1876 –
  The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs
  of Major League Baseball is formed.
• 1878 – Greece
  declares war on Turkey.
• 1882 –
  The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut.
• 1887 –
  In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the
  first Groundhog Day is observed.
• 1899 –
  The Australian
  Premiers’ Conference held in Melbourne
  decides to locate Australia‘s capital city, Canberra,
  between Sydney
  and Melbourne.
• 1901 –
  Funeral of Queen Victoria.
• 1913 – Grand Central Terminal is opened in New
  York City.
• 1920 –
  The Tartu Peace Treaty is
  signed between Estonia and Russia.
• 1920 – France
  occupies Memel.
• 1922 – Ulysses by James
  Joyce is published.
• 1925 – Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds
  reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria
  serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
• 1925 – The Charlevoix-Kamouraska
  earthquake strikes northeastern North
  America.
• 1934 –
  The Export-Import Bank of
  the United States is incorporated.
• 1935 – Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.
• 1940 – Frank
  Sinatra debuts with the Tommy
  Dorsey orchestra.
• 1943 – World
  War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to conclusion as Soviet
  troops accept the surrender of 91,000 remnants of the Axis
  forces.
• 1946 –
  The Hungarian Republic is
  proclaimed.
• 1957 – Iskander Mirza of Pakistan
  lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu
  Barrage.
• 1966 – Pakistan
  suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir
  after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
• 1967 –
  The American
  Basketball Association is formed.
• 1971 – Idi Amin
  replaces President Milton
  Obote as leader of Uganda.
• 1972 –
  The British embassy in Dublin is
  destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday.
• 1974 –
  The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the
  first time.
• 1976 –
  The Groundhog Day gale hits the
  north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
• 1980 –
  Reports surface that the FBI was targeting allegedly
  corrupt Congressmen
  in the Abscam
  operation.
• 1982 – Hama Massacre: Syria
  attacks the town of Hama.
• 1987 –
  After the 1986 People Power Revolution the Philippines
  enacts a new constitution.
• 1989 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: The
  last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
• 1990 – Apartheid: F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to
  function legally and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
• 1998 – A
  Cebu Pacific Flight 387 DC-9-32 crashes into a mountain near Cagayan de Oro, Philippines,
  killing 104.
• 2007 – Three
  tornadoes hit Central Florida, killing 42 people.