1554 Founding of the city of São Paulo in Brazil
1565 Battle at Talikota India: Deccan sultanate destroy Vijayanagar’s army and the last Hindu kingdom of Southern India
1720 Muslims in Constantinople behead Auxentius who has refused to convert to Islam despite being beaten with an iron bar.
1840 American naval expedition under Charles Wilkes is first to identify Antarctica as a new continent
1944 Florence Li Tim-Oi is ordained a priest in Hong Kong by Anglican bishop Ronald Hall, the first woman ordained a priest in the Anglican communion.
1949 1st Israeli election won by David Ben-Gurion’s Mapai party
1971 Military coup in Uganda under Major General Idi Amin
1980 Frederick Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, retires. He had been involved in the translation of the New English Bible and was an advocate for the ordination of women.
2011 Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins with a series of street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, labor strikes and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities
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1961 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference with JFK
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1817 Gioachino Rossini’s opera “La Cenerentola” (Cinderella) premieres in Rome
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1924 1st Winter Olympic Games open in Chamonix, France
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1858 Felix Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” first played, at wedding of Queen Victoria’s daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia
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1890 Journalist Nellie Bly beats the fictitious journey of Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg around the world by 8 days (72 days)
