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12/25 (508): Clovis I, king of the Franks, is baptized into the Catholic faith at Reims, by Saint Remigius.
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9/11 (1995): The first game of the PCA World Chess Championship 1995, pitting incumbent champion Garry Kasparov against challenger Viswanathan Anand, takes place on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center's South Tower in New York City.
9/2 (1963): CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.
The bomb was dropped over Semipalatinsk.
8/6 (1890): At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
9/11 (1903): The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
11/1 (1945): The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
11/1 (1954): The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
12/24 (1818): The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the Nikolauskirche in Oberndorf, Austria.
10/12 (2013): An apartment building collapse in Medellín, Colombia results in the deaths of twelve people.
6/6 (1859): Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales. The date is still celebrated as Queensland Day.
12/7 (1995): An Air Saint Martin (now Air Caraïbes) Beechcraft 1900 crashes near the Haitian commune of Belle Anse, killing 20.
4/9 (1969): The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford with Brian Trubshaw as the test pilot.
7/20 (1592): During the first Japanese invasion of Korea, Japanese forces led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi captured Pyongyang, although they were ultimately unable to hold it.
5/8 (589): Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church.
1/20 (1874): The Treaty of Pangkor is signed between the British and Sultan Abdullah of Perak, paving the way for further British colonization of Malaya.
1/1 (1998): Following a currency reform, Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
2/14 (1990): The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot.
2/12 (1689): The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
7/4 (1946): After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
11/11 (1813): War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm: British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
12/7 (1995): The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.