OAKLEY URBAN EXPLORER SERIES
1972 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.1966 – Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.1958 – Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.1944 – World War II: XX Bomber Command responds to the Japanese Operation Ichi-Go offensive by dropping five hundred tons of incendiary bombs on a supply base in Hankow, China.1939 – World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.1935 – The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.1932 – The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first NFL playoff game to win the NFL Championship.1917 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when the second French offensive pushes the Germans back two or three kilometres, causing them to cease their attacks.1898 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 63.159 km/h (39.245 mph) in a Jeantaud electric car.1892 – Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.1878 – The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.1867 – A magnitude 7.0 earthquakes strikes off the coast of Taiwan, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 580 people.1865 – US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA.1854 – The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada abolishes the seigneurial system.1833 – The national anthem of the Russian Empire, " God Save the Tsar!", is first performed.1793 – Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.1787 – New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S.1777 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.1655 – The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.1622 – Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.1499 – A rebellion breaks out in Alpujarras in response to the forced conversions of Muslims in Spain.1271 – Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China.
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