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2018
2018 – Syrian civil war: Following the completion of the Afrin offensive, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) initiate an insurgency against the Turkish occupation of the Afrin District.
2006
2006 – Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged 2006 Belarusian presidential election, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.
2006
2006 – Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
1996
1996 – The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
1995
1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
1988
1988 – The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
1979
1979 – The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1975
1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by his nephew.
1971
1971 – The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
1965
1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile (80 km) march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
1959
1959 – Chain Island is sold by the State of California to Russell Gallaway III, a Sacramento businessman who plans to use it as a "hunting and fishing retreat", for $5,258.20 ($56,716 in 2024).
1957
1957 – The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
1957
1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
1949
1949 – More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.
1948
1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
1947
1947 – An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
1941
1941 – The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
1932
1932 – The famous Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is unveiled in Athens.
1931
1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
1924
1924 – On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
1919
1919 – The Tetiev pogrom occurs in Ukraine, becoming the prototype of mass murder during the Holocaust.
1918
1918 – The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
1917
1917 – The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
1914
1914 – The Greek multi-sport club Aris Thessaloniki is founded in Thessaloniki.
1911
1911 – Andrey Yushchinsky is murdered in Kiev, leading to the Beilis affair.
1911
1911 – In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
1905
1905 – The Greek football club P.A.E. G.S. Diagoras is founded in the city of Rhodes.
1894
1894 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
1865
1865 – American Civil War: In Virginia during the Siege of Petersburg, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union before being repulsed.
1845
1845 – New Zealand Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army.
1821
1821 – Greek War of Independence: Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 February 1821 (Julian calendar).
1811
1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
1807
1807 – The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
1802
1802 – The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
1770
1770 – Daskalogiannis leads the people of Sfakia in the first Greek uprising against the Ottoman rule
1725
1725 – Bach's chorale cantata "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1", is first performed on the Feast of the Annunciation, coinciding with Palm Sunday.
1708
1708 – A French fleet anchors nears Fife Ness as part of the planned French invasion of Britain.
1655
1655 – Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1584
1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
1576
1576 – Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London.
1519
1519 – Hernán Cortés, entering province of Tabasco, defeats Tabascan Indians.
1410
1410 – The Yongle Emperor of Ming China launches the first of his military campaigns against the Mongols, resulting in the fall of the Mongol khan Bunyashiri.
1409
1409 – The Council of Pisa convenes, in an attempt to heal the Western Schism.
1306
1306 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland).
1065
1065 – The Great German Pilgrimage is attacked on Good Friday by Beduin bandits, suffering heavy losses.
1000
1000 – Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah assassinates the eunuch chief minister Barjawan and assumes control of the government.
919
919 – Romanos Lekapenos seizes the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople and becomes regent of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII.
717
717 – Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter the clergy allowing Leo III to take the throne and begin the Isaurian dynasty.
708
708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to visit Constantinople until 1967.
421
421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.
410
410 – The Southern Yan capital of Guanggu falls to the Jin dynasty general Liu Yu, ending the Southern Yan dynasty.