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Missionaries colonize New Zealand.
Gallus becomes Emperor of Rome, Decius dies in battle with Goths.
Chinese defeat Muslim ruler of Persia.
Suez Canal opens.
Galileo Galilee makes his first observations of stars with a telescope.
The period of “Three Kingdoms” in China begins (an last’s until 265 a.d.).
Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer.
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King (MLK) assassinated.
Great alter of Zeus and Athena built in Pergamon.
Oklahoma City Bombing leaves 168 dead.
Photophone invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
Mongols invade Persia.
