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| 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic. |
| 1787 - New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the United States Constitution. |
| 1793 - Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by Frech royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck. |
| 1892 - The first performance of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is held at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. |
| 1900 - The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia opened for traffic. |
| 1966 - Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker. |
| 1973 - Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union. |
| 1996 - The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect. |
| 1997 - HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium. |
| 1999 - NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT. |
| 2001 - The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan, New York City, is damaged by fire. |
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