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1621 - Galileo perfects the telescope.
1694 - Triennial Bill becomes law in England, providing for new
Parliament to be elected every third year.
1808 - Madrid surrenders to Napoleon Bonaparte's French forces. 1810 - British capture Mauritius from French. 1828 - Andrew Jackson is elected the seventh president of the
United States.
1854 - Government troops attack miners at Eureka stockade at
Ballarat, Victoria. About 30 miners and six soldiers killed.
1894 - Death in Samoa of Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish
novelist, poet and essayist.
1910 - A neon lamp, developed by French physicist Georges
Claude, is displayed for the first time at the Paris Motor Show.
1912 - Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro sign an
armistice.
1944 - US forces cross Saar River in Germany in World War II. 1952 - UN General Assembly adopts India's proposal for Korean
armistice.
1958 - Dutch businesses are nationalised in Indonesia. 1961 - United States deploys platoon of troops along border
between East and West Berlin as East Germany begins strengthening Berlin Wall.
1962 - London is blanketed by one of worst fogs in years, and
scores of people die of sulphur dioxide poisoning before the fog lifts four days later.
1964 - Police arrest some 800 students at the University of
California at Berkeley, one day after the students stormed the administration building and staged a massive sit-in.
1967 - Surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr Christian
Barnard, performs the first human heart transplant. Louis Washkansky lives 18 days with the new heart.
1970 - British envoy James R. Cross is rescued after being held
by Quebec terrorists in Canada for almost two months.
1971 - India declares state of emergency as Pakistani planes
attack its north-west in a dispute over Kashmir.
1975 - Communists take control of Laos and declare an end to its
600-year-old monarchy.
1979- Christie's auction house in New York sets a record,
selling a thimble for $18,400.
1984 - More than 4,000 people die after a cloud of gas escapes
from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India.
1988 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, in her first
official act, calls for release of about 1,000 political prisoners and commutes all death sentences.
1989 - Presidents George Bush and Mikhael Gorbachev hail their
first summit as the start of a new era in US-Soviet relations; East German Politburo and Central Committee resign.
1991 - Alann Steen, an American held hostage for nearly five
years, is released by Shi'ite Muslim kidnappers in Beirut.
1992 - A spill of millions of gallons of crude oil off the coast
of La Coruna, Spain, threatens ecological disaster.
1993 - Angola's government and its rebel foes agree to a
ceasefire in their 18-year war; Princess Diana says she is bowing out of the public spotlight because she wants privacy and time to herself.
1994 - Taiwan's long-ruling Nationalists lose control of the
capital but keep its governorship in historic elections that highlights the island's march to democracy.
1995 - In Madrid, US President Bill Clinton authorises a
vanguard of American troops to open a risky mission in Bosnia.
1996 - A bomb explodes on a commuter train in Paris, killing
four people and injuring 86.