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1555 - Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
1621 - Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
1788 - The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
1822 - Haiti invades the newly founded Dominican Republic.
1825 - After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau is established.
1885 - The first Japanese government-approved immigrants arrive in Hawaii.
1889 - The United States Department of Agriculture is established as a Cabinet-level agency.
1895 - William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
1900 - The Davis Cup competition is established.
1904 - Russo–Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur
1920 - Under the terms of the Spitsbergen Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
1922 - Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1934 - The Balkan Entente is formed.
1942 - World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
1942 - Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
1943 - World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1945 - World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic – HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
1950 - Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
1960 - Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1962 - Jamaica becomes independent nation within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1964 - The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers.
1965 - Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
1969 - First test flight of the Boeing 747.
1971 - The 6.4 on the Richter Scale Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
1971 - Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
1973 - Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.
1975 - The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
1991 - Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
1994 - Vance-Owen peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina is announced.
1995 - Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.
1996 - The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by the explosion of a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
2001 - The American submarine USS;Greeneville;(SSN-772) accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.

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Kongeriket Norge, Kongeriket Noreg
Kingdom of Norway - FlagKingdom of Norway - Coat of arms
Kingdom of Norway - Location
Capital: Oslo
Official languages: Norwegian
Government: Constitutional monarchy
Currency: Norwegian Krone (NOK)
Population: 4 769 000
Area: 324 220 km²
Religion: Lutheranism
Time Zone:
UTC +1 winter
UTC +2 summer
Auto Code: N
Internet TLD: .no .sj .bv
Calling code: +47
Corporate Income Tax: 28,00%
Personal Income Tax: 0-47.8%
Value Added Tax: 8/14/25%
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