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2021
2021 – Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the second anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria.
2013
2013 – A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.
2006
2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
2005
2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–05 regular season and playoffs.
2005
2005 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
2000
2000 – Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 crashes near Sacramento Mather Airport in Rancho Cordova, California, killing all three aboard.
1998
1998 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and six more on the ground.
1996
1996 – A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
1991
1991 – Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
1986
1986 – China Airlines Flight 2265 crashes into the Pacific Ocean near Penghu Airport in Taiwan, killing all 13 aboard.
1986
1986 – The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
1985
1985 – Hezbollah is founded.
1983
1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
1978
1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
1968
1968 – Civil Air Transport Flight 010 crashes near Shongshan Airport in Taiwan, killing 21 of the 63 people on board and one more on the ground.
1968
1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
1962
1962 – Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
1962
1962 – The Great Sheffield Gale impacts the United Kingdom, killing nine people; the city of Sheffield is devastated, with 150,000 homes damaged.
1961
1961 – Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
1960
1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1959
1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
1945
1945 – The Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945, the first anti-discrimination law in the United States, was signed into law.
1945
1945 – World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
1943
1943 – World War II: In the early phases of the Third Battle of Kharkov, Red Army troops re-enter the city.
1942
1942 – World War II: Attack on Aruba, first World War II German shots fired on a land based object in the Americas.
1942
1942 – World War II: In Athens, the Greek People's Liberation Army is established
1940
1940 – World War II: Altmark incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. A total of 299 British prisoners are freed.
1937
1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
1936
1936 – The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
1934
1934 – The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
1930
1930 – The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
1923
1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
1918
1918 – The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.
1900
1900 – The Southern Cross expedition led by Carsten Borchgrevink achieved a new Farthest South of 78° 50'S, making the first landing at the Great Ice Barrier.
1899
1899 – Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
1881
1881 – The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
1866
1866 – Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
1862
1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
1804
1804 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
1796
1796 – Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) falls to the British, completing their invasion of Ceylon.
1742
1742 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
1699
1699 – First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania.
1646
1646 – Battle of Torrington, Devon: The last major battle of the First English Civil War.
1630
1630 – Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil.
1270
1270 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse.
1249
1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.