- 69 General Vespasian's troops occupy Rome after defeating the Emperor Vitellius
Russian New Year Changed
1699 Russian Tsar Peter the Great orders the Russian New Year changed from September 1 to January 1
1812 "Grimm's Fairy Tales" or "Children's and Household Tales" by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm is first published
- 1820 Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men aged 21 to 50
- 1928 1st international dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Quebec
- 1935 The crystallization of the first virus, the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), by Wendell Stanley is announced in the journal Science, for which he is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on December 10, 1946
- 1955 Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales
"Ms." Magazine
1971 First preview issue of "Ms." magazine is published in the US launched by Gloria Steinem
- 1990 The world's first website and server go live at CERN
- 2005 The first same sex civil partnerships in Scotland are celebrated
Thieves Steal a Picasso
2007 Painting "Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904)", by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, along with "O Lavrador de Café", by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari
- 2012 Intercontinental Exchange purchases the New York Stock Exchange, the largest in the world, for $8 billion
- 2017 Lady Gaga signs Las Vegas residency deal for $75m at MGM Park Theatre
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