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10/12 (1945): The Lao Issara took control of Laos' government and reaffirmed the country's independence.
10/12 (1799): Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.
Soviet troops begin to re-enter Hungary, contrary to assurances by the Soviet government. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich secretly defect to the Soviets.
1/1 (1847): The world's first "Mercy" Hospital is founded in Pittsburgh, United States, by a group of Sisters of Mercy from Ireland; the name will go on to grace over 30 major hospitals throughout the world.
7/4 (2015): Chile claims its first title in international football by defeating Argentina in the 2015 Copa América Final.
4/1 (1572): In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
8/6 (1824): Peruvian War of Independence: Patriot forces led by Simón Bolívar defeat the Spanish Royalist army in the Battle of Junín.
1/1 (1739): Bouvet Island, the world's remotest island, is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
9/2 (1957): President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
7/4 (1778): American Revolutionary War: US forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
11/22 (1718): Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") off the coast of North Carolina. The casualties on both sides include Maynard's first officer Mister Hyde and Teach himself.
6/19 (1978): Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.
2/14 (1954): First Indochina War - small French garrison at Đắk Đoa is overrun by the Viet Minh after a week's siege.
11/1 (1976): Burundian president Michel Micombero is deposed in a bloodless military coup d'état by deputy Jean-Baptiste Bagaza.
11/22 (1943): World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
7/20 (1917): World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
1/1 (1772): The first traveler's cheques, which could be used in 90 European cities, are issued by the London Credit Exchange Company.
7/4 (1832): Durham University established by Act of Parliament; the first recognized university to be founded in England since Cambridge over 600 years earlier.
1/1 (1801): Ceres, the largest and first known object in the Asteroid belt, is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
7/4 (1837): Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
9/2 (1561): Entry of Mary, Queen of Scots into Edinburgh, a spectacular civic celebration for the Queen of Scotland, marred by religious controversy.
3/15 (1875): Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
11/11 (1965): Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.
7/14 (1902): Peruvian explorer and farmer Agustín Lizárraga discovers Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas".