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1642: Dutch discovery of Tasmania.Dutch navigator Abel Janszoon Tasman, who sailed from Batavia (Jakarta) to investigate the practicality of a sea passage eastward to Chile and to explore New Guinea, skirted the southern shores of Tasmania this day in 1642.More events on this day2001:The Grand National Assembly of Turkey ratified changes to the country's legal code that made women equal to men before the law and no longer subject to their husbands. |
1998:Queen Elizabeth II, speaking at the annual ceremonies opening the British Parliament, announced that the right of hereditary peers to vote in the House of Lords would end, though compromise legislation later allowed 92 hereditary peers to remain in the Lords. |
1963:Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. |
1947:The Hollywood Ten, a group of motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in October 1947, were found in contempt of Congress. |
1874:American inventor Joseph Farwell Glidden patented the first commercially successful barbed wire. |
1859:Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published. |
1832:A special state convention in South Carolina adopted the Ordinance of Nullification, upholding the doctrine of nullification. |
1700:Louis XIV of France proclaimed his grandson Philip to be king of Spain, beginning the War of the Spanish Succession. |
1531:The second Peace of Kappel brought an end to the Kappel Wars during the Swiss Reformation. |
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