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{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === *[[451]] &ndash; [[Attila the Hun]] sacks the town of [[Metz]] and attacks other cities in [[Gaul]]. *[[1141]] &ndash; [[Empress Matilda]] becomes the first [[female]] ruler of [[England]]. *[[1348]] &ndash; [[Charles University]] is founded in [[Prague]]. *[[1521]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Magellan]] reaches the island of [[Cebu]]. *[[1655]] &ndash; Fabio Chigi is elected to become [[Pope Alexander VII]]. *[[1767]] &ndash; End of two–year [[Burmese-Siamese War]]. *[[1782]] &ndash; [[Thailand]] became a country. *[[1788]] &ndash; American pioneers to the Northwest [[Territory]] arrive at the meeting point of the [[Ohio River]] and [[Muskingum River]], opening the westward expansion of the [[United States]]. *[[1789]] &ndash; [[Selim III]] becomes [[Sultan]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]]. *[[1798]] &ndash; The [[Mississippi]] [[Territory]] is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the [[United States]] and [[Spain]]. *[[1805]] &ndash; [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] premieres his [[Third Symphony]] in [[Vienna]]. *[[1827]] &ndash; [[John Walker]], an English [[chemist]], sells the first [[friction]] [[match]] that he had invented the previous year. *[[1829]] &ndash; [[Joseph Smith]] begins his translation of the [[Book of Mormon]], with [[Oliver Cowdery]] as his scribe. *[[1831]] &ndash; [[Pedro I of Brazil]] resigns to become [[King]] of [[Portugal]]. *[[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Shiloh]] ends in a Union victory. *[[1896]] &ndash; [[Fridtjof Nansen]] reaches the point furthest North of any human being up until that point. === 1901 &ndash; 1950 === *[[1906]] &ndash; [[Mount Vesuvius]] erupts. *[[1906]] &ndash; The Algeciras [[Conference]] gives [[France]] and [[Spain]] control over [[Morocco]]. *[[1908]] &ndash; [[H. H. Asquith]] becomes [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]. *[[1919]] &ndash; The [[France national football team|Federation Francais de Football]] is founded. *[[1927]] &ndash; The first long–distance [[television]] broa