On this day, twoo

[Henry M]

This just in:

In 1437, James I, king of Scotland, was assassinated by a group of
conspirators led by Walter of Atholl after his efforts to break the
influence of the Scottish nobility.  

In 1613, Michael Romanov was elected Tsar of Russia, beginning the
Romanov rule in Russia.  

In 1728, Peter III, tsar of Russia, was born as Karl Peter Ulrich,
Duke of Holstein-Gottorp.  

In 1741, English agriculturalist (and fl(o)utist?) Jethro Tull died.  

In 1794, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican revolutionary, was born.
 (Evil Ways/Abraxas)

In 1849, in the second British-Sikh war, the British inflicted a huge
defeat on a force of 50,000 Sikhs under Shir Singh at the battle of
Gujerat.  

In 1885, the Washington Monument was dedicated.  

In 1903, U.S. writer Anais Nin was born in Paris.  

In 1907, poet W.H. Auden was born.  

In 1911, a commercial treaty between Japan and the United States was
signed, limiting the flow of workers from Japan to the United States. 

In 1916, the German army launched an attack on the fortress at Verdun
in World War One.  

In 1965, black nationalist leader, Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) was
murdered in New York as he was about to address a meeting of his
Afro-American Unity Organization.  

In 1970, a Palestine commando group claimed responsibility for 
blowing up a Swiss airliner which crashed in Baden, killing 47 
passengers.  

In 1972, President Richard Nixon became the first U.S. President to
visit China.  

In 1973, a Libyan Boeing 727 was shot down over an Israeli military
airfield, killing 104 passengers.  

In 1975, former U.S. President Nixon's aides, Attorney General John
Mitchell and Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and domestic adviser John
Ehrlichman were given prison sentences for obstructing the course of
justice in the Watergate affair.  

In 1989, Czech dissident playwright Vaclav Havel was jailed for 
incitement and obstruction in Prague.  

In 1994, British members of parliament voted overwhelmingly to reduce
the age of consent for homosexual men from 21 to 18.  

In 1996, Jeanne Calment, believed to be the world's oldest person,
celebrated her 121st birthday with memories ranging from meeting Dutch
painter Vincent van Gogh to her new career as a pop star.      

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