On the same day, inventor Thomas Edison dies aged 84.ДЎ942: Adolf Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed.ДЎ944: Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia.ДЎ946: Premiere of Aaron CopelandвЂ™s third Symphony.ДЎ954: Texas Instruments Inc. On the same day, the First Balkan War breaks out, with Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece against Turkey.ДЎ918: Czechoslovakia declares independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.ДЎ922: The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) is founded, later called British Broadcasting Corporation.ДЎ931: Gangster Al Capone is convicted of tax evasion. Forster is published.ДЎ912: The Treaty of Lausanne ends the Italo-Turkish War.

1009: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the churchвЂ™s foundations down to bedrock.ДЎ356: The most significant historic earthquaket north of the Alps, destroys Basel in Switzerland.ДЎ667: The English fleet plunders plantations in Suriname.ДЎ685: Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes cancelling the rights of French Protestants.ДЎ748: The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of Austrian Succession.ДЎ855: Premiere of Franz ListzвЂ™s symphonic poem вЂњPrometheusвЂќ.ДЎ859: Birth of French philosopher Henri Bergson.ДЎ860: The Second Opium War ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin.ДЎ867: The US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia after paying $7.2million.ДЎ871: Mathematician and inventor of the calculator, Charles Babbage, dies of renal failure aged 79.ДЎ878: Thomas Edison makes electricity available for household use.ДЎ892: The first commercial long-distance phone line opens between Chicago and New York.ДЎ904: Gustav MahlerвЂ™s 5 th symphony premieres in Cologne.ДЎ910: HowardвЂ™s End by E.M.

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