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Events

1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
1598 - Boris Godunov becomes Tsar of Russia.
1608 - Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
1610 - Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons.
1782 - The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1785 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1797 - The modern Italian flag is first used.
1835 - HMS;Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
1894 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
1904 - The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
1922 - Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
1927 - The first transatlantic telephone call is made – from New York City to London.
1931 - Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
1935 - Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco–Italian Agreement.
1942 - World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
1945 - World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
1950 - A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
1953 - President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
1954 - Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1959 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1968 - Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the final spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
1972 - Iberia Airlines Caravelle 6-R crashes into Mont San Jose on approach to Ibiza Airport killing all 104 on board.
1973 - Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana before being shot to death by police officers.
1979 - Third Indochina War – Cambodian-Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
1980 - President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
1984 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
1990 - The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
1993 - The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
1999 - The impeachment of President Bill Clinton begins.

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2025

1 JanuaryNew Year's Day (New Year's Day)
2 JanuaryEnd of Carnival (End of Carnival Fortnight)
18 AprilGood Friday (Good Friday)
21 AprilEaster Monday (Easter Monday)
5 MayLabour Day (Labour Day)
9 JuneWhit Monday (Whit Monday)
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29 December (Boxing Day)
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Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis - FlagFederation of Saint Kitts and Nevis - Coat of arms
Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis - Location
Capital: Basseterre
Official languages: English
Government: Constitutional monarchy
Currency: East Caribbean Dollar (XCD)
Population: 38 819
Area: 261 km²
Religion: Protestantism
Time Zone: UTC -4
Auto Code: KAN
Internet TLD: .kn
Calling code: +1869
Corporate Income Tax: 35%
Personal Income Tax: 0%
Value Added Tax: 17% (11.2010->)
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