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1325 – The Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan (Mexico City), is founded on an island in Lake Texcoco.
1701 – Khoisan people loot more than 40 cattle from settlers at the Cape.
1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1881 – Tsar Alexander II of Russia is assassinated when his killer throws a bomb at him.
1888 – De Beers Consolidated is founded to control diamond production in South Africa.
1900 – British forces capture Bloemfontein.
1900 – In France, the working day for women and children is reduced to 11 hours.
1938 – In a process known as Anschluss, Austria is annexed by Nazi Germany.
1954 – The Viet Minh shell French troops, beginning the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, the climactic battle of the First Indochina War.
1967 – The SAA Rietbok airliner crashes off Kayser’s Beach near East London; 25 people die.
1988 – Japan’s 53km Seikan Tunnel, the world’s longest railroad tunnel, is opened.
1996 – Sixteen primary school children and a teacher are shot dead in Dunblane, Scotland.
2012 – Encyclopaedia Britannica announces it will no longer publish printed editions.
2013 – Argentinian cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio becomes Pope Francis, the 266th pontiff, the first Jesuit pope, and the first from outside Europe since the 8th century.
2020 – Elite football in Britain is suspended because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
2023 – Vinyl records outsell CDs in the US for the first time since 1987 (41 million vinyl records versus 33 million CDs), a report says.
2025 – News site RTL.com reports on a public fallout between Elon Musk and Donald Trump following a week of personal and political tensions.
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