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On this day in . . .

• 211, Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta

• 960, the coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries

• 1454, in the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master

• 1783, Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its former colonies, the United States of America

• 1789, electors chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States. (However, the results of the balloting were not counted in the U.S. Senate until two months later.)

• 1825, the Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal

• 1859, Codex Sinaiticus discovered in Egypt

• 1861, at a convention in Montgomery, Ala., six states -- Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina -- elected Jefferson Davis president of the Confederacy

• 1899, the Philippine-American War begins

• 1915, Germany establishes a submarine blockade around the UK and declares any vessel in it a legitimate target

• 1936, Radium E becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically

• 1938, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, seized control of the German army and put Nazi officers in key posts as part of a plan that led to World War II

• 1943, during World War II: Battle of Stalingrad ends

• 1945, President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a wartime conference at Yalta

• 1957, USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, logs her 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"

• 1974, the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California

• 1976, in Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000

• 1991, the Baseball Hall of Fame votes to ban Pete Rose

• 1996, major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties all-time record low temperature at -26 degrees F (-32.2 degrees C)

• 1997, a jury in a civil trial in Santa Monica, Calif., found O.J. Simpson liable in the killings of his former wife and her friend, and was ordered to pay a total of $33.5 million to the families. Simpson had been acquitted in his murder trial

• 1998, while in Belgium, Bill Gates is assaulted by a Belgian man and hit in the face with a cream pie

• 1999, senators at President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial voted to permit the showing of portions of Monica Lewinsky's videotaped deposition

• 2003, Yugoslavia and replaced it with a loose union of its remaining two republics, Serbia and Montenegro

• 2004, the Senate, rattled by a ricin attack, began returning to regular business with no illnesses reported. ALSO: A Pakistani scientist considered the key figure in his country's nuclear weaponry development admitted he leaked that technology to other countries

• 2006, widespread Muslim protests of published caricatures depicting Muhammad in a negative light turned violent. Angry practitioners of that "religion of peace" smashed windows, set fires and burned flags and Syrian mobs burned Danish and Norwegian embassies

• 2009, President Barack Obama imposed a $500,000 cap on executive pay for companies receiving federal bailout money. ALSO: The U.S. unemployment rate rose to a 26-year high of 8.1 percent, auto sales sank and housing starts were at their lowest annual level in at least half a century

• 2012, Florence Green, who had served with the Women's Royal Air Force and was recognized as the last veteran of World War I, died in King's Lynn, eastern England, at age 110. ALSO: The Syrian military launched a brutal attack on the opposition stronghold city of Homs, killing a reported 260 people and wounding hundreds more in a four-hour assault. Russia and China vetoed an effort by the U.N. Security Council to end the violence in Syria with an Arab Nation peace plan

• 2014, the Congressional Budget Office said several million American workers would reduce their hours on the job or leave the workforce entirely because of incentives built into President Barack Obama's health care overhaul

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