1618<\/strong> – Johann Kepler discovered the third Law of Planetary Motion.<\/p>\n 1702<\/strong> – England’s Queen Anne took the throne upon the death of King William III.<\/p>\n 1782<\/strong> – The Gnadenhutten massacre took place. About 90 Indians were killed by militiamen in Ohio in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.<\/p>\n 1853<\/strong> – The first bronze statue of Andrew Jackson is unveiled in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n 1855<\/strong> – A train passed over the first railway suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, NY.<\/p>\n 1862<\/strong> – The Confederate ironclad “Merrimack” was launched.<\/p>\n 1880<\/strong> – U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes declared that the United States would have jurisdiction over any canal built across the isthmus of Panama.<\/p>\n 1887<\/strong> – The telescopic fishing rod was patented by Everett Horton.<\/p>\n 1894<\/strong> – A dog license law was enacted in the state of New York. It was the first animal control law in the U.S.<\/p>\n 1904<\/strong> – The Bundestag in Germany lifted the ban on the Jesuit order of priests.<\/p>\n 1905<\/strong> – In Russia, it was reported that the peasant revolt was spreading to Georgia.<\/p>\n 1907<\/strong> – The British House of Commons turned down a women’s suffrage bill.<\/p>\n 1909<\/strong> – Pope Pius X lifted the church ban on interfaith marriages in Hungary.<\/p>\n 1910<\/strong> – In France, Baroness de Laroche became the first woman to obtain a pilot’s license.<\/p>\n 1910<\/strong> – The King of Spain authorized women to attend universities.<\/p>\n 1911<\/strong> – In Europe, International Women’s Day was celebrated for the first time.<\/p>\n 1911<\/strong> – British Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Gray declared that Britain would not support France in the event of a military conflict.<\/p>\n 1917<\/strong> – Russia’s “February Revolution” began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg. The revolution was called the “February Revolution” due to Russia’s use of the Old Style calendar.<\/p>\n 1917<\/strong> – The U.S. Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.<\/p>\n 1921<\/strong> – Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato was assassinated while leaving the Parliament in Madrid.<\/p>\n 1921<\/strong> – French troops occupied Dusseldorf.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – Self-liquidating scrip money was issued for the first time at Franklin, IN.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – Martial law was proclaimed in Holland in order to extinguish any anti-Nazi protests.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – During World War II, Japanese forces captured Rangoon, Burma.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong> – Japanese forces attacked American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville. The battle lasted five days.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – Phyllis Mae Daley received a commission in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. She later became the first African-American nurse to serve duty in World War II.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – In New York City, the “Journal American” became the first commercial business to receive a helicopter license.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – The French naval fleet arrived at Haiphong, Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1948<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – A census bureau report indicated that 239,000 farmers had quit farming over the last 2 years.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – France and Vietnam opened talks in Paris on a treaty to form the state of Indochina.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – Herb McKenley set a world record for the quarter mile when he ran the distance in 46.8 seconds.<\/p>\n 1957<\/strong> – The International Boxing Club has ruled a monopoly putting it in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – Groucho, Chico, and Harpo made their final TV appearance together.<\/p>\n 1961<\/strong> – Max Conrad circled the globe in a record time of eight days, 18 hours and 49 minutes in the Piper Aztec.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – The U.S. landed about 3,500 Marines in South Vietnam. 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All four were eventually released.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – In Fort Campbell, KY, 17 U.S. soldiers were killed when two Army helicopters collided in midair.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – In Lhasa, Tibet, martial law was declared after three days of protest against Chinese rule.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Timothy McVeigh for the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – The White House, under President Bill Clinton, directed the firing of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee from his job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. 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