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  1. 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

    724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.

    1284 – The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.

    1575 – Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.

    1585 – The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.

    1776 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.

    1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.

    1799 – The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French garrison.

    1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.

    1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.

    1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.

    1859 – The two-day Great Slave Auction, the largest such auction in United States history, concludes.

    1861 – Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.

    1865 – Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.

    1873 – Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.

    1875 – Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

    1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.

    1878 – The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; a few months afterwards the Congress of Berlin stripped its status to a vassal principality of the Ottoman Empire.

    1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.

    1904 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder.

    1910 – Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.

    1913 – Thousands of women march in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.

    1918 – Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

    1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time.

    1924 – The fourteenth-century Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.

    1924 – The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.

    1931 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.

    1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.

    1939 – In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.

    1940 – Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Flamman in Luleå, Sweden.

    1942 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.

    1943 – World War II: In London, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.

    1944 – The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.

    1945 – World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila.

    1945 – World War II: The RAF accidentally bombs the Bezuidenhout area of The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.

    1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips's recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

    1953 – A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.

    1958 – Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.

    1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.

    1972 – Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.

    1973 – Washington Convention of International Union for Conservation of Nature is adopted.

    1974 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.

    1980 – The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.

    1985 – Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers' national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.

    1985 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.

    1986 – The Australia Act 1986 commences, causing Australia to become fully independent from the United Kingdom.

    1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.

    1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.

    2005 – James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. This is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.

    2005 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.

    2005 – Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006 where all the highest political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur.

    2013 – A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 others in a predominately Shia Muslim area.

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  2. Doi pureci fumeaza pe marginea drumului. La un moment dat se apropie de ei un caine.
    - Hei, arunca tigara, zice unul din pureci. Nu vezi ca vine autobuzul?

  3. Un motan se apropie de un acvariu şi priveşte cu lăcomie la peştişorul dinăuntru. Întinde laba să prindă peştişorul. Acesta îl vede şi, foarte speriat, strigă:
    – Ham, ham! Apoi începe să mârâie întocmai ca un câine.
    Motanul se sperie şi fuge. Peştişorul îngână fericit:
    – Ce bine că am învăţat o limbă străină!

  4. Shirley is an Asian elephant who was captured from the wild of Sumatra and sent into a life entertaining people. Before she was rescued by the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, Shirley performed as a circus elephant for 24 long years with Carson and Barnes Circus. Shirley traveled and performed with this circus until she was attacked by another elephant and broke her back right leg. No longer able to perform tricks, she was sent to Louisiana Purchase Gardens zoo where she lived alone due to safety concerns associated with her leg injury. Shirley spent 22 years living alone, this is an incredibly miserable existence for elephants who are highly social and emotional beings. It would be like keeping a person in a display case. But thankfully, Shirley was retired to the Elephant Sanctuary in 1999 where she finally got to rejoin a herd of other elephants. Shirley now spends her days chatting with her elephant friends and enjoy apples, her favorite food.

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  5. Un urs, un leu si un porc s-au intalnit si se lauda: 
    Ursul: 
     -Daca urlu eu o data in padure, toate animalele tremura de frica. 
    Leul: 
     -Daca eu racnesc o data in jungla, toate animalele se infioreaza de groaza. 
    Porcul: 
     -Asta nu-i nimic, eu stranut o singura data si ... intreaga planeta se vaccineaza !!!

  6. Nunta mare in padure. Se insura regele animalelor, leul. 
    Toata lumea chefuia, bea, dansa, fuma, cand, deodata, se stinge lumina si toate animalele incep sa faca dragoste. 
    La un moment dat, se aude tare: 
    - Aaauuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!! 
    Leul, furios, aprinde lumina si intreaba: 
    - Bai, care ma deranjeaza? 
    Dar...nimeni nu-i raspunde. Se lasa iar cu petrecere, bautura, tigari...si iar se stinge lumina si incep animalele sa faca dragoste. 
    Se aude din nou: 
    - Aaaaaaauuuuuuuu!!! 
    - Bai, daca cel care a tipat nu apare in fata mea, va mananc pe toti. 
    Deodata apare licuriciul si spune: 
    - Rege leu, te rog sa ma ierti, dar eu sunt vinovat. 
    - De ce ai tipat, mai? 
    - Marite rege, cand am vazut ca fiecare face dragoste cu partenera lui, am vrut si eu sa fac dragoste cu prietena mea, dar daca era lumina inchisa, de unde sa-mi dau seama care-i prietena mea, ca peste tot sunt chistoace de tigari aprinse.

  7. 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.

    706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople.

    1113 – Pope Paschal II issues a bill sanctioning the establishment of the Order of Hospitallers.

    1214 – During the Anglo-French War (1213–1214), an English invasion force lands at La Rochelle in France.

    1493 – While on board the Niña, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World.

    1637 – Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.

    1690 – Constantin Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia, and the Holy Roman Empire sign a secret treaty in Sibiu, stipulating that Moldavia would support the actions led by the House of Habsburg against the Ottoman Empire.

    1764 – The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).

    1798 – The Roman Republic is proclaimed after Louis-Alexandre Berthier, a general of Napoleon, had invaded the city of Rome five days earlier.

    1804 – The Serbian Revolution begins.

    1835 – The first constitutional law in modern Serbia is adopted.

    1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee.

    1870 – Stevens Institute of Technology is founded in New Jersey, USA and offers the first Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering.

    1879 – Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.

    1891 – Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.

    1898 – The battleship USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.

    1901 – The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.

    1909 – The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.

    1921 – Kingdom of Romania establishes its legation in Helsinki.

    1923 – Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.

    1925 – The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska.

    1933 – In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.

    1942 – World War II: Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.

    1944 – World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy begins.

    1944 – World War II: The Narva Offensive begins.

    1945 – World War II: Third day of bombing in Dresden.

    1946 – ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

    1949 – Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.

    1952 – King George VI of the United Kingdom is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

    1953 – Parliamentary elections held in Liechtenstein.

    1954 – Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.

    1961 – Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team along with several of their coaches and family members.

    1965 – A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.

    1971 – The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.

    1972 – Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.

    1972 – José María Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time.

    1982 – The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers.

    1989 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.

    1991 – The Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.

    1992 – Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison.

    1996 – At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.

    2001 – The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.

    2003 – Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between eight million to 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history.

    2012 – 360 people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua.

    2013 – A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.

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