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11/11 (1918): Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
4/9 (1959): Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
12/7 (2015): The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.
7/14 (1957): Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
2/14 (1849): In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
4/1 (2001): Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
11/9 (1970): Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6-3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
3/15 (1927): The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
5/8 (1919): Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
12/25 (597): Augustine of Canterbury and his fellow-labourers baptise in Kent more than 10,000 Anglo-Saxons.
1/15 (1975): The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.
7/14 (1865): The first ascent of the Matterhorn is completed by Edward Whymper and his party, four of whom die on the descent.
9/2 (2010): Israel-Palestinian conflict: the 2010 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are launched by the United States.
3/17 (1985): Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
1/1 (1804): French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black-majority republic and second independent country in North America after the United States.
7/20 (1960): The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
7/20 (2019): Soyuz MS-13 is launched to the International Space Station on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
5/1 (880): The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
11/1 (1897): Italian Sport-Club Juventus is founded by a group of students of Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio.
11/11 (1961): Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.
9/11 (9): The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends: The Roman Empire suffers the greatest defeat of its history and the Rhine is established as the border between the Empire and the so-called barbarians for the next four hundred years.
9/11 (1829): An expedition led by Isidro Barradas at Tampico, sent by the Spanish crown to retake Mexico, surrenders at the Battle of Tampico, marking the effective end of Spain's resistance to Mexico's campaign for independence.
2/14 (1990): The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot.
7/20 (2013): Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.