1884 Siege of Khartoum, Sudan, begins by Mahdist forces and lasts ten months.

1905 Mata Hari first performs her dance act at the Guimet Museum, Paris.

1943 Failed assassin attempt on Adolf Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight.

1943 Nazis liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków; Oskar Schindler with advance information, saves his workers by keeping them in his factory overnight.

2019 US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by other countries following the plane type's second crash in Ethiopia.

1757 On board HMS Monarch (his own flagship), British Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for failing to come to aide of besieged British garrison.

1915 German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Más a Tierra, Chile, having been pursued by the Royal Navy after the Battle of the Falkland Islands, with her engines worn out and virtually no coal.

1918 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched in San Francisco.

1923 German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP (Nazi party)

1923 US President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes.

1964 Dallas, Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder.

1972 Two IRA members shot dead by British soldiers in the Bogside area of Derry.

1973 Future US senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.

2013 Xi Jinping is named President of the People's Republic of China.

44 BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome.

1916 Dutch merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed by German submarine & sinks in North Sea.

1923 Vladimir Lenin suffer his 3rd stroke.

1930 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched.

1939 Adolf Hitler summons Czech President Emil Hácha to a meeting in Berlin and informs him of the impending attack by Germany; Hácha suffers a heart attack and later capitulates. Germany occupies and annexes Czechoslovakia reneging on the Munich Agreement.

1940 Hermann Goering says 100-200 church bells are enough for Germany and melts down the rest.

1972 Two British soldiers killed when attempting to defuse a bomb in Belfast; an RUC officer is also killed in an IRA attack in Coalisland, County Tyrone.

2019 Climate change strikes held by schoolchildren take place around the world, inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg.

432 Saint Patrick, aged about 16, is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland.

1860 Six years after the forcible ending of Japan's isolationist policy by US Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry, the Japanese Embassy arrives in San Francisco to sign a Treaty of Friendship.

1926 Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations.

1932 German police raid Adolf Hitler's Nazi headquarters.

1942 US General Douglas MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander.

1966 US submarine locates missing hydrogen bomb on the Mediterranean sea floor.

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1834 Six farm laborers from Tolpuddle in Dorset, England, are sentenced to transportation to Australia for forming a trade union.

1890 German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck resigns after 19 years after a disagreement with German Emperor Wilhelm II

1915 French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed.

1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to six years imprisonment for disobedience.

1940 Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler meet at Brenner Pass, where the Italian dictator agrees to join Germany's impending war effort in the west.

1943 British merchant vessel "Canadian Star" is torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic by German U-boat U-221, 34 die with 54 survivors.

1948 France & Great Britain & Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels.

2003 British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.

1774 The British parliament passes first of the Intolerable Acts: the Boston Port Act, which closed Boston harbor until colonists would pay for damages following the Boston Tea Party.

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte enters Paris after his escape from Elba and begins his 100-day rule.

1917 After the sinking of 3 more American merchant ships, US President Woodrow Wilson meets with cabinet, who agree that war is inevitable.

1922 USS Langley is commissioned, US Navy's 1st aircraft carrier.

1933 Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.

1942 General Douglas MacArthur vows "I came through and I shall return" after escaping Japanese-occupied Philippines.

1943 German U-384 bombed & sinks.

1972 Donegall Street bombing: the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonate its first car bomb on Donegall Street in Belfast; four civilians, two RUC officers and a UDR soldier killed while 148 people were wounded.

1992 Manuel Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses.

1871 Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa.

1933 Day of Potsdam in Nazi Germany, a ceremony to open the new Reichstag after the fire in February; Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg shake hands in public.

1939 Nazi Germany demands the return of Danzig (Gdańsk) from Poland.

1943 Assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler fails.

1945 1st Japanese kamikaze "flying bombs" (MXY-7 Ohka) attack Okinawa.

1963 Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed.

1974 Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall.

2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation.

2024 Elon Musk's Neuralink company posts a video of a patient playing chess online using a brain implant.

1943 Cornelia Fort, while flying in formation en route from Long Beach to Love Field in Dallas, the left wing of her BT-13 was struck by the landing
gear of flight officer Frank Stamme Jr.'s plane. Fort went into an irreversible dive and crashed. She was the first United States pilot to
encounter the Japanese air fleet during the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

1622 First American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans around Jamestown, Virginia, 347 killed.

1765 First direct British tax on American colonists, the Stamp Act, is passed by the British Parliament led by Prime Minister George Grenville.

1933 First Nazi concentration camp, Dachau, opens as a camp for political prisoners.

1941 James Stewart is inducted into the Army, becoming the first major American movie star to wear a military uniform in World War II

1944 American movie star James Stewart flies his 12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin.

1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong.

1979 Provisional Irish Republican Army assassinates Richard Sykes, the British ambassador to the Netherlands, in The Hague.

1979 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode 24 bombs in various locations across Northern Ireland.

1990 Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood not guilty of Valdez oil spill.

1994 Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton)

2004 Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas, and bodyguards killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.

1775 Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" in a speech encouraging Virginia troops to join the American Revolutionary War.

1918 Germany begins using long-range gun, the 'Kaiser Wilhelm Geschütz' ('Emperor William Gun'), aka 'Paris Gun' to shell Paris from Crépy-en-Laonnais, 75 miles away; over several days, 303 rounds kill 256 and wound over 600

1919 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party re-establishes a five-member Politburo, which becomes the center of political power in the Soviet Union. Original members are Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev, and Nikolai Krestinsky.

1933 German Reichstag hastily passes the Enabling Act and President Paul von Hindenburg signs it the same day, granting Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.

1945 Battle of Okinawa: US Navy ships bomb the Japanese island of Okinawa in preparation for the Allied invasion; the largest battle of the Pacific War in World War II

1957 US Army sells its last homing pigeons.

1603 Scottish King James VI, son of Mary, Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, uniting the English and Scottish crowns.

1916 German submarines torpedo the unarmed French cross-channel packet 'Sussex'

1942 US government begins moving native-born citizens with Japanese ancestry into detention centres under Executive Order 9066, with intention of preventing home-grown espionage.

1944 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape)

1944 Ardeatine massacre: Nazis led by SS officers Herbert Kappler, Erich Priebke and Karl Hass execute 335 civilians and political prisoners in occupied Rome in retaliation for the previous day's Via Rassela bombing that killed 33 Germans.

1944 RAF rear gunner Nicholas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber 18,000 feet over Germany without a parachute; his fall is broken by pine trees and soft snow, and he suffers only a sprained leg.

1947 John D. Rockefeller Jr. donates NYC East River site to the UN

1947 US Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency.

1949 SS police chief in the Netherlands Hanns Albin Rauter's request for a pardon denied, executed by firing squad.

1958 Elvis Presley joins the U.S. Army (serial number 53310761)

1972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.

1982 US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia.

1999 NATO commences an air bombardment against Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War, the first attack by NATO on a sovereign country.

1752 The Murder Act passes into law in Great Britain - allows corpses of executed murderers to be given to the Company of Surgeons for dissection.

1942 First "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps.

1955 "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" version recorded by Bill Hayes becomes the #1 record in US

1966 Large-scale anti-Vietnam War protests take place in the United States, including in New York, Washington, D.C. and Chicago.

1976 Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.

1942 - Rear Admiral John Walter Wilcox Jr. is washed overboard in the North
Atlantic off Sable Island.

1854 Great Britain and France declare war on Russia, expanding the Crimean War.

1910 First seaplane takes off from water under its own power, piloted by Henri Fabre from the Étang de Berre lagoon in Martigues, France.

1935 Influential Nazi Propaganda film "Triumph of the Will" released showing Nuremberg rallies, commissioned by Adolf Hitler and directed by Leni Riefenstahl.

1941 Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy.

1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire.

1942 St. Nazaire Raid (Operation Chariot): obsolete British destroyer HMS Campbeltown, rigged with explosives and flying German flags, rams gates of German occupied St Nazaire port in France, and self detonates; kills 360 Germans, and disables the dry dock for duration of the war.

1945 Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London.

1964 First true pirate radio station, England's Radio Caroline begins regular transmission at noon from the MV Caroline off the coast of Suffolk.