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1400 – The Trần Dynasty of Vietnam was deposed after 175 years of rule by Ho Quy Ly , a court official.
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1868 – Governor of California Henry Huntly Haight signed a law establishing the University of California , todæg a public university system that is considered a model for public institutions across the United States.
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1801 – Tsar Alexander I acceded to the Russian throne after his father Paul I was murdered in his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle .
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1933 – The German Reichstag passed the Enabling Act , essentially giving German Chancellor Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers by granting him and the Cabinet the authority to enact laws without the participation of the Reichstag .
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1940 – Pakistan Movement : During its three-dæg general session, the Muslim League drafted the Lahore Resolution , calling for greater autonomy in British India .
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1965 – NASA launched Gemini 3 , the first American two-person space flight.
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1994 – Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Kemerovo Oblast , Russia , after the pilot's 15-year-old son, while seated at the controls, had unknowingly disabled the autopilot , killing all 75 people on board.
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1994 – Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio was assassinated during a meeting on his presidential campaign in Tijuana .
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1996 – Lee Teng-hui was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan.
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1862 – American Civil War : Confederate General Stonewall Jackson suffered his only defeat during the war in the First Battle of Kernstown in Frederick County, Virginia .
1905 – 1,500 Cretans , led by Eleftherios Venizelos , met at the village of Theriso to call for the island's unification with Greece, beginning the Theriso revolt .
1908 – American diplomat Durham Stevens , an employee of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs , was assassinated in San Francisco by two Korean immigrants unhappy with his recent support of the increasing Japanese presence in Korea.
1931 – Bhagat Singh , one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement , and two others were executed by British authorities .
1983 – The initial proposal to develop the Strategic Defense Initiative , a ground-based and space-based system to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles , was released.
1989 – Two researchers announced the discovery of cold fusion , a claim which was later discredited.
1991 – The Sierra Leone Civil War began when the Revolutionary United Front , with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor 's National Patriotic Front of Liberia , invaded Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh .
2001 – The Russian Federal Space Agency deorbited the 15-year-old space station Mir , causing it to reenter the Earth's atmosphere and break up over the Pacific Ocean.
2005 – A fire and explosion at the third-largest oil refinery in the United States killed 15 works and injured over 170 others.
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1775 – Americanisc Onƿendung : Patrick Henry bannede his gemaðel "Geaf me Frēodōm, oððe geaf me Dēaþ! " þǣm Burgƿarena Hūse Uirginie , þǣrin urging he herelic dǣd ƿiþ þæt Bryttisce Rīce.
1848 – Scytiscu landsetlan on John Ƿickliffe þǣm scipe, þærof ƿæs Ƿilliam Cargill sciphlāford, gelandode æt stede si is nū Chalmershȳð in Otagan þǣm lande in Nīƿe Sǣlandes sūðdǣle.
1879 – Beadu in þǣm Sericus Rīm Geƿinn betƿuh Cile and Peruƿiscan–Bolifiscan fultum opnede mid þǣm Topáter Sæcc .
2007 – Persisc herefolc ætfōn 15 Bryttiscan Cynelican Scipheres menn, claiming that they had entered Persealandes agan brim.