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Events

1236 - The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
1499 - Treaty of Basel; Switzerland becomes an independent state.
1586 - The Battle of Zutphen is fought.
1598 - Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.
1692 - Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.
1761 - Coronation of George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte.
1776 - Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
1784 - Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
1789 - The position of United States Postmaster General is established.
1792 - Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar.
1823 - Joseph Smith, Jr. claims that he is directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where the Golden plates are stored.
1851 - The city of Des Moines, Iowa is incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
1862 - Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
1866 - Battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.
1869 - Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
1885 - Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule e.g. "Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right".
1888 - The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published
1893 - The first American-made automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.
1896 - Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1908 - The independence of Bulgaria is proclaimed.
1910 - The Duke of York's Cinema opens in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
1919 - The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
1927 - Jack Dempsey loses the Long Count boxing match to Gene Tunney.
1934 - An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1939 - Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
1941 - World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews are executed.
1944 - World War II: the Red Army enters Tallinn.
1951 - The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
1955 - In Britain, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
1960 - The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
1965 - The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965/Second Kashmir War between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
1970 - Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia.
1975 - Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
1979 - The South Atlantic Flash or Vela Incident is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
1980 - Iraq invades Iran.
1985 - The Plaza Accord is signed in New York City.
1991 - The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
1993 - A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. 47 passengers are killed.
1993 - A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
1995 - An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf AFB, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
1995 - Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which 34 (at least) people died, most of them are ethnic Tamil school children.
1997 - Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers are killed.
2003 - David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
2004 - New Windows fitted at 5:37pm
2004 - Oceanic Flight 815 goes missing over the Pacific Ocean.
2006 - The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy.

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2025

1 JanuaryNew Year's Day (ახალი წელი, Akhali ts'eli)
7 JanuaryOrthodox Christmas
19 JanuaryBaptism Day of our Lord Jesus Christ (ნათლისღება, Nathlisgheba)
3 MarchMother's Day (დედის დღე, Dedis dghe)
8 MarchInternational Women's Day (ქალთა საერთაშორისო დღე, Kalta saertachoriso dghe)
9 AprilDay of National Unity (ეროვნული ერთიანობის დღე, Erovnouli ertianobis dghe)
21 AprilOrthodox Easter Monday (აღდგომა, Aghdgoma)
9 MayVictory Day (ფაშიზმზე გამარჯვების დღე, Phachizmze gamardjvebis dghe)
12 MaySaint Andrea the First Day (წმინდა მოციქულის ანდრია პირველწოდებულის საქართველოში შემოსვლის დღე, Ts'minda motsiqhoulis andreys pirvelts'odeboulis sakartvelochi chemosvla dghe)
26 MayIndependence Day (დამოუკიდებლობის დღე, Damouk'ideblobis dghe)
28 AugustAssumption of Mary (მარიამობა, Mariamoba)
14 OctoberDay of Svetitskhoveli Cathedral (in Mtskheta) (სვეტიცხოვლობა, Svetistskhovloba)
23 NovemberSaint George's Day (გიორგობა, Guiorgoba)
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Georgia
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Georgia - FlagGeorgia - Coat of arms
Georgia - Location
Capital: Tbilisi
Official languages: Georgian, Abkhaz (in Abkhazia), Ossetic (in South Ossetia), Russian (in Abkhazia and South Ossetia)
Government: Presidential republic
Currency: Lari (GEL)
Population: 4 630 841
Area: 69 700 km²
Religion: Orthodox Church
Time Zone: UTC +4
Auto Code: GE
Internet TLD: .ge
Calling code: +995
Corporate Income Tax: 15,00%
Personal Income Tax: 20,00%
Value Added Tax: 18,00%
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