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Events

1126 - Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and Leon, after the death of his mother Urraca.
1655 - John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in what will be the United States.
1702 - Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1722 - The Safavid Empire, ruling the once powerful Persian Empire, is defeated by an army from Afghanistan in The Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Persia into anarchy.
1775 - Thomas Paine's "African Slavery in America," the first article in the U.S. calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery is published.
1777 - Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
1782 - Gnadenhütten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
1817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1844 - King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1862 - American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1911 - International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
1917 - The U.S. Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
1921 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
1924 - The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
1936 - Daytona Beach Road Course holds their first oval stock car race.
1942 - World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
1957 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
1957 - The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the state of Georgia.
1963 - The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a Coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
1966 - A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
1978 - The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
1979 - Philips demonstrates Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
1980 - The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union.
1983 - President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire."
1985 - A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
1999 - The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
2004 - A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.

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18 MayFlags and Universities Day
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15 AugustAssumption of Mary
17 OctoberOctober Death of Jean-Jacques Dessalines
1 NovemberAll Saints
2 NovemberAll Souls' Day
18 NovemberArmy Day (Armed Forces Day)
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Republic of Haiti - FlagRepublic of Haiti - Coat of arms
Republic of Haiti - Location
Capital: Port-au-Prince
Official languages: French, Haitian Creole
Government: Republic
Currency: Gourde (HTG)
Population: 8 925 000
Area: 27 750 km²
Religion: Catholicism (80%)
Time Zone: UTC -5
Auto Code: HT
Internet TLD: .ht
Calling code: +509
Corporate Income Tax: 10-30%
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Value Added Tax: 10%
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