*In this day of 1303, The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.
*In this day of 1534, Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador.
*In this day of 1553, Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
*In this day of 1657, Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
*In this day of 1792, France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
*In this day of 1800, The Septinsular Republic is established.
*In this day of 1810, Venezuela declares independence from Spain.
*In this day of 1836, US Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
*In this day of 1862, Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment falsifying the theory of spontaneous generation.
*In this day of 1865, Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity.
*In this day of 1876, Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
*In this day of 1968, English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
*In this day of 1972, Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
*In this day of 2008, Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the 1st female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
*In this day of 2012, 127 peoples are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
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