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1337 - Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy made in England.
1756 - St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
1776 - American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery overlooking the city.
1780 - American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
180 - Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus as the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.
1805 - The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
1845 - The rubber band is patented.
1861 - The Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) is proclaimed.
1901 - An exhibition of seventy-one Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
1906 - The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
1910 - Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls (now Camp Fire USA) (formally announced in 1912).
1917 - Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School.
1921 - The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
1939 - Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): The Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the Japanese breaks out.
1941 - In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1942 - Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lviv Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp (eastern Poland).
1945 - The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany collapses, ten days after its capture.
1948 - Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the NATO Agreement.
1950 - Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium".
1957 - A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
1958 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
1959 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
1960 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
1966 - Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
1969 - Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
1970 - My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
1973 - The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family.
1975 - The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad enters its third and final bankruptcy, and William M. Gibbons is selected as receiver and bankruptcy trustee for the railroad.
1979 - The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
1985 - Serial killer Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", commits his first two murders in Los Angeles, California murder spree.
1988 - A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
1988 - Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
1992 - A suicide car-bomb kills 29 and injures 242 at the Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2000 - The 800+ deaths of members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult.
2003 - British Cabinet Minister Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for the war with Iraq.
2004 - Unrest in Kosovo results in more than 22 killed, 200 wounded, and the destruction of 35 Serb Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis.
2008 - New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. David Paterson becomes New York State governor.

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1 JanuaryNew Year's Day (Neujahr, Nouvel an, Capodanno, Bumaun)
18 AprilGood Friday (Karfreitag, Vendredi Saint, Venerdì santo, Venderdi sontg)
21 AprilEaster Monday (Ostermontag Lundi de Pâques, Lunedì di Pasqua, Glindesdi da Pasca)
1 JuneAscension of Jesus (Auffahrt, Ascension, Ascensione, Anzainzas)
9 JuneWhit Monday (Pfingstmontag, Lundi de Pentecôte, Lunedì di Pentecoste, Glindesdi da Tschuncaisma)
1 AugustSwiss National Day (Schweizer Nationalfeiertag, Fête nationale Suisse, Festa nazionale della Svizzera, Festa naziunala)
25 DecemberChristmas (Weihnachtstag, Noël, Natale, Di da Nadal)
26 DecemberSt. Stephen's Day (Stephanstag, Saint Etienne, Santo Stefano, Son Steffan)
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