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1542 - Princess Mary Stuart succeeds her father, James V and becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland at 6 days old 1656 - Artificial pearls...

1800 - Washington, DC, was established as the capital of the United States. 1911 - Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India. 1955 -...

1.    Sanjeev and Hema- Sholay 2.    Gracy vs Rani and Nandita : Lagaan 3.    Madhubala in Anarkali 4.    Kaho naa.. Pyar Hai a Guinness Book of World...

359 - Honoratus, first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office. 384 - St Damasus I dies and ends his reign as Catholic...

1520 - Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict. The papacy demanded that he recant or face excommunication. Luther refused 1582 - France begins...

1783 - The first executions at Newgate Prison took place. 1854 - Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade," was published...

1813 - Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres https://youtu.be/Z8IrkMU5qe8 1896 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter 1941 - The United States...

63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations. 1492 - Christopher Columbus discovered  Haiti 1717 - Blackbeard ransacks the merchant sloop "Margaret" and...

1736 - Astronomer Anders Celsius takes measurements that confirm Newton's theory that the earth was an ellipsoid rather than the previously accepted sphere 1775 -...

1804 - Napoleon was crowned emperor of France at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris 1867 - In a New York City theater, British...