1302 Dante becomes a Florentine political exile

1538 States of Gelderland accepts Willem van Kleef as viceroy

1556 Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies

1593 Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno

1662 First American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI)

1671 Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City

1710 Czar Peter the Great sets first Russian state budget

1736 Abdication of Stanislas, last king of Poland

1778 Piccinni's opera "Roland" premieres, Paris

1785 First US state university chartered, Athens GA

1864 Battle of Fair Gardens, Tennessee

1864 Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford VA

1870 After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to Union

1870 First sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw University in Greencastle IN)

1870 Manitoba &Northwest Territories incorporated

1880 Thomas A. Edison receives a U.S. patent for the electric incandescent light bulb.

1886 First British government of Salisbury resigns

1888 The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.

1891 Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant PA

1894 First college basketball game, University of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11

1894 Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park

1896 Tasmania bowl out Victoria for 65 for their first ever innings victory

1897 British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana)

1900 Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds first convention

1902 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (New York City NY)

1905 Maurice Rouvier forms government in France

1906 Rudolf Gundersen skates world record 500m at 44.8 seconds

1908 Pasiphaë, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte

1910 Thomas Crapper, British plumber who invented the modern flush toilet, dies today.

1915 US Marines occupy Haiti

1916 Communist party "Spartacus Letters" first published in Berlin

1918 "Tarzan of the Apes," first Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater

1924 Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja premier

1924 Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square

1926 US Senate agrees to join World Court

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