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{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[1184 BC]] &ndash; Traditional date of the Fall of [[Troy]]. * [[1558]] &ndash; [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] marries future King [[Francis II of France]]. * [[1585]] &ndash; Felice Peretti is elected [[Pope]], becoming [[Pope Sixtus V]]. * [[1704]] &ndash; The first regular [[newspaper]]in Colonial America, the News–Letter, is published in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. * [[1715]] &ndash; Following defeat in the [[Navy|naval]] [[Battle of Fehmarn (1715)|Battle of Fehmarn]], [[Sweden]] sinks its own flagship, ''Hedvig Sophia'', to prevent [[Denmark]] from taking it. * [[1800]] &ndash; The [[Library]] of [[Congress]] in [[Washington, DC]] opens. * [[1877]] &ndash; [[Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)|Russo-Turkish War]]: [[Russia]] declares war on the [[Ottoman Empire]]. * [[1885]] &ndash; American sharpshooter [[Annie Oakley]] is hired to be part of [[Buffalo Bill]]'s Wild West. * [[1895]] &ndash; [[Joshua Slocum]] sets sail from [[Boston, Massachusetts]] on his [[boat]] ''Spray'', on his way to becoming the first person to sail single–handedly around the world. * [[1898]] &ndash; The [[Spanish-American War]] begins. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1904]] &ndash; The [[Lithuania]]n [[Mass media|press]] ban ends after over 40 years. * [[1907]] &ndash; [[Hersheypark]], founded by [[Milton S. Hershey]] exclusively for his employees, opens. * [[1913]] &ndash; [[New York City]]'s Woolworth building is opened. * [[1914]] &ndash; The Franck–Hertz Experiment, a pillar of [[quantum mechanics]], is presented to the German [[Physics|Physical]] Society. * [[1915]] &ndash; The arrest of [[Armenian Genocide|250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders]] in [[Istanbul]] marks the beginning of the [[Armenian Genocide]]. * [[1916]] &ndash; The Irish [[Easter Rising]] begins in [[Dublin]]. * [[1916]] &ndash; [[Ernest Shackleton]] and five men of the Imperial Trans–[[Antarctica|Antarctic]] [[Expedition]] launch a lifeboat from the uninhabited [[Elephant Island]] in the [[Southern Ocean]