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110 - ▼Yamato Takeru goes to war.
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894 - ▲Sugawara no Michizane abolishes the system of the kentoshi.
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1755 - ◆(legal birth) Marie Antoinette、the last queen of France.
She is the last queen of Frnace before the French Revolution.
She is born an archduchess of Austria and is the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I.
She becomes dauphine of France in May 1770 at age 14 upon her marriage to Louis-Auguste, heir apparent to the French throne. On 10 May 1774, her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI and she becomes queen.
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1755 - ◆The Lisbon earthquake (Portugal).
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Estimates place the death toll in Lisbon alone at between 30,000 and 50,000 people, making it one of the deadliest earthquakes in history.
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1920 - ▼Meiji Shrine is established (Japan).
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1936 - ◆(birth) Shizuka Kamei, a Japanese politician, Minister of State for Financial Services.
He used to be a police bureaucrat.
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1947 - ★The Temporary National Personnel Commission is established.
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1966 - ◆"Self Defense Forces Day" is established.
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1993 - ▲The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
(French Republican Calendar) February 11, 202
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1993 - ▲New Measurement Law takes effect (Japan).
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2006 - ◆Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko takes place.
Litvinenko, a former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service, became ill after having lunch at a sushi restaurant. He died on November 23. Later significant amounts of Polonium-210 were found in his body.
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December 14, 1803 - ▲(birth)Ogimachi Naoko, mother of Emperor Komei.
The day is the 300th anniversary of the birth of Nostradamus (December 14, 1503).
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December 2, 1804 – ▲Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French.
The day was November 1, Bunka 1 (11/1/1) according to the Japanese traditional calendar. And January 1, 1804 was February 11 according to the Japanese calendar. February 11 is National Foundation Day in Japan.
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November 27, 1894 - ▲(birth) Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist.
He founds Panasonic, the largest Japanese consumer electronics company .
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December 12, 1985 - ◆North Korea ratifies the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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December 12, 1985 - ◆Arrow Air Flight 1285 Crash.
Arrow Air Flight 1285, a Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing 256, 248 of whom were U.S. servicemen returning to Fort Campbell, Kentucky from overseeing a peacekeeping force in Sinai.
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December 24, 1999 - ★(death) Joao Figueiredo, President of Brazil.
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December 15, 2001 - ★The "space shuttle Endeavour" is undocked from the ISS.
The first Space Transportation System mission since "September 11 attacks".
The US flag related to "September 11 attacks" is flown above Endeavour.
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