CoM Moderators Posted February 17, 2024 Posted February 17, 2024 1776 - 1st volume of Edward Gibbon's seminal work "The Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" published 1933 - First issue of American news magazine "Newsweek" is published 1940 - Altmark Incident: Crew of the British destroyer "Cossack" board German "Altmark" in Jøssingfjord, Norway, releasing 299 British prisoners after hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets and the last recorded Royal Naval action with cutlass 1956 - Ice Pairs Championship at Garmisch won by Schwarz and Oppelt of AUT 1969 - Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash record an album; it is never released 1976 - Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau) 1986 - 1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles 1996 - Garry Kasparov defeats chess-playing computer Deep Blue 4-2 2012 - The President of Germany, Christian Wulff, resigns over a corruption scandal 2013 - 5 people are killed and 11 are injured after a gas explosion destroyed an apartment complex in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic More Historical Events »
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