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Thumb — 1291: Foondin document o Swisserland

30 BC - Mark Antony commits suicide.
1291 - Offeecial foondin date o Swisserland.
1408 - Christopher Columbus visits present-day Venezuela.
1714 - George I becomes King o Great Breetain.
1747 - Kilts an tartan ar banned efter the seicont Jacobite uprisin.
1759 - Seiven Years' War: Breetish, Hanoverian an Proushie forces defeat the French in the Battle o Minden.
1800 - The Acts o Union o 1800 are signed, tae jyn Ireland wi Great Breetain tae form the Unitit Kinrick.
1834 - Slavery is abolished in the Breetish Empire.
1855 - Charles Hudson becomes the first person tae successfully climb the Dufourspitze, Swisserland's heichest moontain on the Monte Rosa massif.
1876 - Colorado becomes the 38t state o the Unitit States.
1907 - The first Scout camp is set up on Brownsea Island, Dorset, Ingland.
1914 - Warld War I: Germany declares war on Roushie.
1936 - Stairt o the 1936 Simmer Olympics in Berlin.
1944 - The Warsaw Uprisin stairts.
1944 - Anne Frank writes the last entry in her diary.
1952 - Asgeir Asgeirsson becomes the 2nt Preses o Iceland.
1960 - Dahomey, nou Benin, gains unthirldom frae Fraunce.
1960 - Islamabad is declared the federal caipital o Pakistan.
1968 - Kristján Eldjárn becomes the 3rd Preses o Iceland.
1980 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir becomes the 4t Preses o Iceland; she is the first democratically-electit female Heid o State.
1980 - A train crash in Coonty Cork, Republic o Ireland, kills 18 fowk.
1996 - Olafur Ragnar Grimsson becomes the 5t Preses o Iceland.
2000 - Moshe Katsav becomes Preses o Israel.
2004 - A fire at a supermercat in Asuncion, Paraguay, kills 396 fowk.
2005 - Abdullah o Saudi Arabie becomes King.
2007 - The I-35W Mississippi River Brig in Minneapolis collapses, killin 13 fowk.
2008 - 11 climbers die in a single day on K2.
2009 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen becomes Secretary-General o NATO.
2015 - Indie an Bangladesh swap 162 exclaves aroond thair mairch.
2017 - Jacinda Ardern becomes leader o the New Zealand Labour Pairty; she becomesPrime meenister in October.
2017 - Shahid Khaqan Abbasi becomes Prime meenister o Pakistan.
2018 - Violent clashes occur in Harare ower the delay in the declaration o Zimbabwe's Preses election result.
2019 - A Houthi atteck on a militar parade in Aden, Yemen, kills 32 fowk.
2019 - Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, Ingland, is evacuatit ower heavy rain damage tae a local dam.
2019 - Jane Dodds o the Leeberal Democrats wins the Brecon an Radnorshire bi-election in Wales, cuttin Conservative UK Prime meenister Boris Johnson's wirkin majority tae just ane.
2020 - Mair COVID-19 restreections are loosened in Scotland: Edinburgh Castle an Stirlin Castle are permittit tae re-appen, an professional fitbaw resumes.

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