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7/4 (1837): Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
7/20 (1938): The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
1/1 (1801): Ceres, the largest and first known object in the Asteroid belt, is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
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.
3/15 (1875): Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
9/2 (1561): Entry of Mary, Queen of Scots into Edinburgh, a spectacular civic celebration for the Queen of Scotland, marred by religious controversy.
11/11 (1965): Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.
3/17 (2000): Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere...
7/14 (1902): Peruvian explorer and farmer Agustín Lizárraga discovers Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas".
2/14 (1556): Having been declared a heretic and laicized by Pope Paul IV on 4 December 1555, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is publicly defrocked at Christ Church Cathedral.
4/1 (1725): J. Bach's later Easter Oratorio in its first version is performed at the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig on Easter Sunday.
1/1 (1781): American Revolutionary War: One thousand five hundred soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey in the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781.
10/31 (1918): World War I: The Aster Revolution terminates the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, and Hungary achieves full sovereignty.
7/20 (1807): Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
2/12 (1404): The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sofia performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen-Geist Spital in Vienna.
11/22 (1967): UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
7/4 (836): Pactum Sicardi, a peace treaty between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, is signed.
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.
11/11 (1919): Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
3/17 (1862): The first railway line of Finland between cities of Helsinki and Hämeenlinna, called Päärata, is officially opened.
11/22 (1989): NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-33, a classified mission for the United States Department of Defense.
11/1 (1897): The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S.
7/14 (1951): Ferrari take their first Formula One grand prix victory at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
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.