📜 Events

• 1 627 – Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh.
• 2 1388 – Maria of Enghien sells the lordship of Argos and Nauplia to the Republic of Venice.
• 3 1787 – Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the US Constitution.
• 4 1862 – American Civil War: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River.
• 5 1866 – Oaks explosion: The worst mining disaster in England kills 361 miners and rescuers.
• 6 1870 – Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman.
• 7 1787 – Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the US Constitution.
• 8 1862 – American Civil War: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River.
• 9 1866 – Oaks explosion: The worst mining disaster in England kills 361 miners and rescuers.
• 10 1870 – Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman.
• 11 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [•••] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
• 12 1915 – Yuan Shikai declares the establishment of the Empire of China and proclaims himself Emperor.
• 13 1917 – Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
• 14 1935 – The Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
• 15 1936 – The beginning of Xi'an incident. As a result, Chiang Kai Shek is captured.

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