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| 1941 | Armistice Hitler, Adolf |  |
| Compiegene Orders siezure of the French fleet at Toulon in violation of the Compiegene Armistice
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| Compiegne Orders siezure of the French fleet at Toulon in violation of the Compiegene Armistice
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| 1905 | Arrest Fullon, Ivor | |
| St Petersburg Sends out orders to arrest Gapon but Gapon goes into hiding
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| 1941 | Attila Hitler, Adolf | |
| Orders the occupation of the rest of France
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| Toulon Orders the siezure of the French fleet at Toulon
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| 1915 | Battle of Dardanelles Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| Dardanelles Suggests an attack on the Dardanelles at a War Council meeting
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| 1815 | Battle of New Orleans Pakenham, Edward | |
| New Orleans Attacks Jackson's base but 2,000 British troops & Pakenham are killed
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| New Orleans Fought 2 weeks after the treaty of Ghent had ended the war
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| 1815 | Battle of New Orleans Jackson, Andrew | |
| New Orleans Defeats the British forces led by Pakenham, the Duke of Wellington's brother-in-law
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| New Orleans Inflicts 2,000 British casualties & kills their commander during a British attack
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| 1943 | Battle of Stalingrad Paulus, Friedrich von | |
| Stalingrad Rokossovsky sends in a request for the German 6th Army to surrender, this is refused
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| 1943 | Battle of Stalingrad Rokossovsky, Konstantin Konstantinovich | |
| Stalingrad Rokossovsky sends in a request for the German 6th Army to surrender, this is refused
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| 1676 | Battle of Stromboli Ruyter, Michael Adriaanszoon de | |
| Stromboli Fights an inconclusive battle against Duquesne
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| 1885 | Birth Curtin, John Joseph Ambrose | |
| Birth of John Joseph Ambrose Curtin
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| 1942 | Birth Hawking, Stephen William | |
| Birth of Stephen William Hawking
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| 1947 | Birth Bowie, David | |
| London Birth of David Robert Jones, David Bowie
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| 1902 | Birth Malenkov, Georgi Maksimilanovich | |
| Orenburg Birth of Georgi Maksimilanovich Malenkov
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| 1935 | Birth Presley, Elvis Aaron | |
| Birth of Elvis Aaron Presley
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| 2007 | Bombing of Sudan Bush, George Walker | |
| Mogadishu The USAlaunches an air strike in Somalia, targets suspected al-Qaeda operatives who were forced to flee Mogadishu following Ethiopian air strikes that routed Islamist militias
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| 1976 | Burial En-Lai, Chou | |
| Tiananmen Sqr Forbidden to lay wreaths on the Martyr's Memorial in honour of Chou, causes disorder
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| 1941 | Burial Baden-Powell, Robert | |
| Westminster Abbey A Memorial service is held at Westminster Abby for Baden-Powell
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| 1958 | Championship Fischer Fischer, Bobby | |
| Wins the USA Chess Championship, age 14
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| 1957 | Chancellor Thorneycroft, George Edward Peter | |
| London Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer
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| 1989 | Chemical Weapons Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Russia promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
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| 1985 | Chief of Staff Regan, Donald | |
| Appointed Chief-of-Staff
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| 1918 | Congress of Soviets, 3rd Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| Passes the "declaration of the rights of the toiling & exploited masses"
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| Proclaims the Soviet Russian Republic
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| 1976 | Constitution Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| Basic rights guaranteed by the Constitution are removed
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| Parliamentary elections are postponed for the 1st time since Indian independence
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| 1107 | Coronation Alexander I the Fierce | |
| Crowned King of Scotland
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| 1959 | Coup d'Etat Castro Ruz, Fidel Alejandro | |
| Havana Castro arrives in Havana to cheering mobs & assumes the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
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| 1966 | Crimp Johnson, Lyndon Baines | |
| The goal of the campaign is to capture the Vietcong's headquarters near Saigon
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| 1976 | Death En-Lai, Chou | |
| Death of En-Lai, age 78
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| 1996 | Death Mitterand, Francois | |
| Paris Death of Francois Mitterand
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| 1990 | Death Thomas, Terry | |
| Death of Terry Thomas
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| 1642 | Death Galileo, Galilei | |
| Death of Galilei Galileo
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| 1999 | Deputy Prime Minister Badawi, Abdullah Ahmad | |
| Appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
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| 1745 | Diplomacy Catherine II the Great | |
| England, Austria, Saxony and the Netherlands form an Alliance against Russia
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| 1989 | Diplomacy Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Russia promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
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| 1945 | Election Pasha, Ahmed | |
| Wins the elections which are boycotted by the WAFD Nationalists
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| 1905 | Election Balfour, Arthur James | |
| Manchester Balfour loses his seat in Manchester East
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| 2008 | Election Kibaki, Mwai | |
| Kiambaa Odinga refuses Kibaki's invitation to discuss the political crisis after Kibaki appoints his cabinet, which does not include any members of Odinga's Orange Democratic Party
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| 2008 | Election Clinton, Hillary Diane Rodham | |
| Democrat Hillary Clinton finishes first in the New Hampshire primary, ahead of Barack Obama and John Edwards.
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| 2008 | Election Obama, Barack Hussein | |
| Democrat Hillary Clinton finishes first in the New Hampshire primary, ahead of Barack Obama and John Edwards.
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| 1915 | Flanders French, John Denton Pikstone | |
| Flanders The War Council meeting agrees French's plan for an offensive in Flanders
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| 1957 | Government Heath, Edward Richard George | |
| Informs Butler that MacMillan has been selected to succeed Eden
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| 1964 | Government Johnson, Lyndon Baines | |
| Johnson declares war on poverty
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| 1985 | Government Reagan, Ronald Wilson | |
| Agrees to negotiate for Nuclear disarmament with Moscow
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| 1996 | Governor Ralph, Richard | |
| Falklands, The Appointed Governor of the Falkland Islands
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| 1996 | Governor Foster, Mike | |
| Louisiana Appointed Governor of Louisiana
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| 1926 | Independence Abdal al-Aziz | |
| Renames Hejaz, SaudiArabia
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| 1914 | Inspector General Sanders, Otto Liman von | |
| German General appointed as Inspector General of the Turkish Army
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| 1889 | Invention Tabulator Hollerith, Herman | |
| New York Patents an electrical computer for processing data
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| 1729 | Investiture Frederick Louis | |
| London Investited as Prince of Wales
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| 1918 | League of Nations Wilson, Thomas Woodrow | |
| "a general association of nations..under specific covenants", 14 Points
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| Founded to preserve national independence, 14 points
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| Founded to preserve national independence, 14 points
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| 1618 | Lord Chancellor Bacon, Francis | |
| Appointed Lord Chancellor
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| 1941 | Marita Hitler, Adolf | |
| River Danube Orders Operation Marita to commence on 26th March
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| 2007 | Minister KazakhstanTazhin, Marat | |
| Appointed Foreign Minister
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| 1999 | Minister Albar, Hamid | |
| Appointed Foreign Minister
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| 1999 | Minister Badawi, Abdullah Ahmad | |
| Appointed Home Minister
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| 1999 | Minister Zainuddin, Daim | |
| Appointed Minister of Finance
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| 1918 | Mobilization Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| Sets up battalions for civil defense duties for digging trenches & surveillance
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| 1985 | Nuclear Warfare Chernenko, Konstantin Ustinovich | |
| Agrees with the USA to resume negotiations to reduce Nuclear weapons
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| Moscow Agrees with the USA to resume negotiations to reduce Nuclear weapons
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| 1985 | Nuclear Warfare Reagan, Ronald Wilson | |
| Agrees to negotiate for Nuclear disarmament with Moscow
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| 1921 | Occupation Lloyd George, David | |
| Chequers Becomes the 1st Prime Minister to reside in Chequers
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| 1918 | Peace Trotsky, Leon | |
