pensavo di mettere gli anniversari di eventi storici giorno x giorno.
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871 - Battle of Reading - Ethelred of Wessex defeats Danish invasion army
1493 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World, ending his first journey
1642 - English Civil War: King Charles I of England attacks Parliament
1717 - The Netherlands, England and France sign the Triple Alliance
1762 - England declares war on Spain and Naples
1847 - Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government
1850 - The first American ice-skating club is formed (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
1884 - The Fabian Society is founded in London
1885 - The first successful appendectomy is performed (Dr. William Grant; patient was Mary Gartside).
1896 - Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
1936 - Billboard magazine publishes its first pop music charts
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Monte Cassino begins
1948 - Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom
1951 - Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
1957 - After 69 years the last issue of Colliers magazine is published.
1958 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4, 1957)
1962 - New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board.
1965 - United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address.
1967 - Donald Campbell dies as his jet-powered Bluebird K7 crashes during an attempt to break the water speed record.
1972 - Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge in the United Kingdom (Old Bailey, London).
1974 - United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1987 - An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, DC collides with Conrail engines killing 16.
1999 - Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque killing 16 people injuring 25.
2004 - Dr. Mikhail Saakashvili won Presidential Elections in the Republic of Georgia.
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