588 BC: Nebuchadnezzar II begins siege of Jerusalem, which ends in 586 BC with the Babylonian exile.
9 BC: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon River with his army, defying Roman law and triggering civil war that transforms Rome from Republic to Dictatorship. His words: “The die is cast.”
630: Mohammad leads 10,000 soldiers from Medina to conquer Mecca in a nearly bloodless assault.
888: Death of Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor known for his lassitude during a period of fractured alliances.
1412: The Medici family becomes banker to the Papacy, accelerating their rise as Italy’s most powerful family.
1493: Columbus departs Hispanola for Spain, completing the exploratory phase of his first New World voyage.
1559: Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England.
1707: Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union with England, creating the United Kingdom.
1729: Birth of Edmund Burke, considered the father of modern Conservatism.
1741: Birth of Benedict Arnold.
1755: Birth of Alexander Hamilton on Nevis Island in the Caribbean.
1759: British Museum opens in London.
1761: Britain captures Pondicherry, India from France.
1776: Thomas Paine publishes “Common Sense,” a 48-page pamphlet advocating American independence that becomes the highest per-capita bestseller in American history.
1784: US government ratifies the Treaty of Paris; Britain recognizes American independence.
1786: Virginia General Assembly accepts the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, written by Thomas Jefferson.
1794: Death of Edward Gibbon, author of “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”
1808: Birth of Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln’s Treasury Secretary who established national banking and later became Chief Justice.
1831: Birth of Horatio Alger Jr., writer of inspirational stories about boys rising from poverty.
1833: President Andrew Jackson writes to VP Martin Van Buren outlining his objections to South Carolina’s secession threats during the Nullification Crisis.
1863: CSS Alabama sinks USS Hatteras off Galveston, Texas.
1866: Royal Aeronautical Society established in London, 37 years before the Wright Brothers’ first flight.
1870: John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil Company of Ohio in Cleveland.
1875: Birth of Albert Schweitzer, musician, theologian, and medical missionary who won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.
1879: Anglo-Zulu War begins with British crossing the Buffalo River into Zululand.
1893: Birth of WWI fighter ace Herman Goering.
1898: Émile Zola publishes “J’Accuse,” exposing the Dreyfus Affair and dividing French society for eight years.
1901: First oil gusher erupts at Spindletop Field near Beaumont, Texas.
1902: Birth of Scottish runner and missionary Eric Liddell, subject of “Chariots of Fire.”
1920: Treaty of Versailles formally signed. French Marshal Foch: “This is not a peace. It is a twenty year armistice.”
1921: First publication of “The Adventures of Tintin” in Belgium.
1923: Birth of automotive designer Carroll Shelby.
1932: Birth of drag racer Don “Big Daddy” Garlits.
1938: Birth of Willie McCovey; Norway annexes Queen Maude Land in Antarctica.
1943: British-Chinese Agreement ends British extraterritorial rights in China; Japanese complete evacuation of Guadalcanal (Operation KE); Casablanca Conference establishes unconditional surrender policy (Roosevelt becomes first sitting president to fly).
1950: First flight of MiG-17 fighter.
1951: Birth of Rush Limbaugh.
1953: Birth of Pat Benatar.
1961: Birth of Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
1964: Karol Wojtyla elevated to Archbishop of Krakow.
1968: NASA’s Surveyor 7 lands near Tycho crater, completing 42 days of lunar surveys—the last unmanned US moon mission.
1976: Death of Agatha Christie, best-selling novelist of all time with 66 books.
1982: Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into DC’s 14th Street Bridge during snowstorm, killing 71.
1991: Congress authorizes military force against Iraq; Operation Desert Storm begins at midnight.
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