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{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[764]] &ndash; [[Tibet]]an troops occupy [[Chang'an]], the capital of the Chinese [[Tang Dynasty]], for fifteen days. * [[1028]] &ndash; Future [[Byzantine emperor|Byzantine empress]] [[Zoe (empress)|Zoe]] marries [[Romanus III|Romanus Argyrus]] according to the wishes of dying [[Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire|Constantine VIII]] * [[1439]] &ndash; [[Plymouth, Devon|Plymouth]], England, becomes the first town incorporated by the [[List of Parliaments of England|English Parliament]]. * [[1555]] &ndash; The [[England|English]] [[Parliament]] decides that [[Roman Catholicism]] will be the state [[religion]] of England. * [[1602]] &ndash; [[Sebastian Viscaino]] lands at, and names, [[San Diego, California]]. * [[1793]] &ndash; [[Jean Sylvain Bailly]], the first [[Mayor]] of [[Paris]], is executed on the [[guillotine]]. * [[1892]] &ndash; [[William Heffelfinger]] becomes the first professional [[American football]] player on record, taking part in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association. * [[1893]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of the Durand]] is signed between present–day [[Pakistan]] and [[Afghanistan]]; the Durand Line has become the international [[border]] between the two countries. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1905]] &ndash; Newly independent [[Norway]] holds a [[referendum]] on its system of [[government]]. Most voters decide to have a [[monarch]] as their Head of State, over having a [[president]]. * [[1908]] &ndash; An [[explosion]] at a [[Mining|mine]] shaft in [[Hamm]], present–day [[North Rhine-Westphalia]], [[Germany]], kills 348 people. * [[1912]] &ndash; The bodies of [[Robert Falcon Scott]] and his men are found on the [[Ross Ice Shelf]]. * [[1918]] &ndash; [[Austria]] becomes a republic. * [[1920]] &ndash; [[Italy]] and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the [[Treaty of Rapallo]]. * [[1927]] &ndash; [[Leon Trotsky]] is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving [[Joseph Stalin]] with complete control of th