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1314 Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake by King Philip IV of France. |
1325 According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date on an island in what was then Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico |
1890 German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck resigns after 19 years after a disagreement with German Emperor Wilhelm II. |
1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to six years imprisonment for disobedience. |
1940 Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler meet at Brenner Pass where the Italian dictator agrees he will, in due course, join Germany's impending war effort in the west. |
 | Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov conducts the first spacewalk during the Voshkod 2 mission |
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1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov leaves his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes and becomes the first person to conduct a spacewalk |
1990 In the largest art heist in US history, 13 works of art worth over $500 million are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. |
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It was an idea probably two centuries years ahead of its time, but public buses first took to the streets of Paris on this day in history. |
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