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1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
1749 - Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
1777 - American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
1815 - Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
1823 - Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
1848 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia.
1861 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
1868 - Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
1870 - The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
1888 - The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91;cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
1899 - The first known use of the word automobile, is seen in an editorial in The New York Times.
1921 - Turkey makes peace with Armenia.
1924 - British explorer Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.
1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
1932 - Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit.
1933 - Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
1938 - The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1944 - World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.
1945 - World War II: Admiral Chester W Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan.
1947 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
1953 - Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
1956 - A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
1957 - The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
1958 - The West Indies Federation is formed.
1959 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. State.
1961 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1961 - The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, leaks radiation, killing three workers.
1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
1977 - Apple Computer is incorporated.
1988 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th Century.
1990 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
1993 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
1994 - An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkutsk, Russia, killing 125 people including one on the ground.
1994 - More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receives South African citizenship.
1997 - The People's Republic of China announces it will spend $27.7 billion USD to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys.
1999 - The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
1999 - Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
2004 - Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people on board.
2007 - National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport.
2009 - Israeli ground forces invade Gaza.

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20 MarchEnd of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr)
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22 MarchEnd of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr)
23 MarchEnd of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr)
1 MayLabour Day
22 MayDay of National Unity
26 MaySacrifice Feast (Eid ul-Adha)
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10 SeptemberBirth of the Prophet (Eid-Milad Nnabi)
26 SeptemberRevolution Day
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Republic of Yemen
الجمهوريّة اليمنية
Republic of Yemen - FlagRepublic of Yemen - Coat of arms
Republic of Yemen - Location
Capital: Sanaá
Official languages: Arabic
Government: Republic
Currency: Yemeni Rial (YER)
Population: 23 013 000
Area: 527 970 km²
Religion: Islam
Time Zone: UTC +3
Auto Code: Y
Internet TLD: .ye
Calling code: +967
Corporate Income Tax: <35%
Personal Income Tax: <20%
Value Added Tax: 0,5-2%
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