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5/1 (880): The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
4/1 (1922): In newly formed Northern Ireland, six Catholics are murdered in the Arnon Street killings, one week after six others were killed in the McMahon killings.
7/20 (2019): Soyuz MS-13 is launched to the International Space Station on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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.
1/20 (1877): The last day of the Constantinople Conference results in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
2/14 (1990): The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot.
4/22 (1944): World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
11/1 (1896): A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
7/20 (2013): Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.
1/20 (1953): Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America, becoming the first president to begin his presidency on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.
1/15 (1936): The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
9/11 (1852): Outbreak of Revolution of September 11 resulting in the State of Buenos Aires declaring independence as a Republic.
10/31 (2014): During a test flight, the VSS Enterprise, a Virgin Galactic experimental spaceflight test vehicle, suffers a catastrophic in-flight breakup and crashes in the Mojave Desert, California.
1/1 (1776): American Revolutionary War: Burning of Norfolk - Norfolk, Virginia, is burned to the ground by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.
2/12 (2016): Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches since their split in 1054.
Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
12/7 (1982): In Texas, Charles Brooks Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
3/15 (1922): After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
12/25 (1724): J. Bach leads the first performance of Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91, in Leipzig, based on Luther's 1524 Christmas hymn.
1/1 (1788): The first edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.
9/2 (1192): The Treaty of Jaffa is signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, leading to the end of the Third Crusade.
1/1 (1834): Most of Germany forms the Zollverein customs union, the first such union between sovereign states.
1/1 (1863): American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
3/15 (493): Odoacer, the first barbarian King of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, is slain by Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, while the two kings were feasting together.