Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs, a porphyrysculpture
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Historic Publication
1516 Printing is completed of humanist & theologan Erasmus‘ “Novum Instrumentum omne”, first published New Testament in Greek
- 1562 Blood bath at Vassy: Francois de Guise’s troops open fire on Huguenot congregation, first event in Wars of Religion
- 1642 Georgeana (York) Maine became the 1st incorporated American city
Salem Witch Trials
1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, & Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachussets
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- 1781 Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland
Event of Interest ![10th US President John Tyler](https://www.onthisday.com/images/people/john-tyler.jpg)
1845 US President John Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas
- 1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)
- 1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor with apprpx 480 passengers and crew; she was never seen again
- 1864 Rebecca Lee in the US becomes 1st African American woman to receive a medical degree
- 1872 Yellowstone becomes the world’s first national park
Scientific Discovery ![Physicist and Nobel Laureate Henri Becquerel](https://www.onthisday.com/images/people/antoine-henri-becquerel.jpg)
1896 Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity
- 1910 118 die when three passenger trains buried at Steven’s Pass, Wa, in Cascade Range by the worst snow slide in US history
- 1912 U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry performs first (attached-type) parachute jump from an airplane
Event of Interest ![Aviator and Author Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://www.onthisday.com/images/people/anne-morrow-lindbergh.jpg)
1932 The “Lindbergh kidnapping”, 20 month old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh kidnapped from home in East Amwell, New Jersey, found dead 12 May
- 1936 Boulder (Hoover) Dam fully completed
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Historic Publication
1941 Captain America created by cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby first appears in comic book form, published by Timely Comics
- 1941 German troops invade Bulgaria
Event of Interest
1941 Heinrich Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1954 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in US House of Representatives injuring 5 members
Event of Interest ![35th US President John F. Kennedy](https://www.onthisday.com/images/people/john-f-kennedy.jpg)
1961 US President JFK establishes the Peace Corps.
1974 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides
- 2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan as US special operations forces infiltrate the Shahi-Kot Valley in Eastern Afghanistan
- 2011 Tomb of a 700 year old female mummy, discovered by road workers, opened in Taizhou, Jiangsu, China. (More)
Election of Interest
2016 US primary elections: Super Tuesday – both Republican Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clintonwin seven state races each
- 2018 Earliest evidence for figural tattoos (bull and sheep) on two naturally mummified bodies from Egypt’s predynastic period (3351-3017BC) published in “Journal of Archaeological Science” (MORE)
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