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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.