On this day in 1991, U.S. President George Bush ordered a cease-fire effective at midnight and declared victory in the First Persian Gulf War, a conflict triggered by Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait in August 1990.
| 1973: | | Two hundred members of the American Indian Movement forcefully took the reservation hamlet of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. |
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| 1967: | | | Saint Kitts and Nevis (with Anguilla) became an independent state associated with the United Kingdom. |
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| 1933: | | In Berlin the Reichstag (parliament) building caught fire, a key event in the establishment of Nazi dictatorship. |
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| 1884: | | Paul Kruger, president of the South African Republic, signed a treaty in London that disavowed British authority over the Transvaal. |
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| 1807: | | | American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Massachusetts (now in Maine). |
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| 1776: | | At the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolinian revolutionaries defeated loyalists during the American Revolution. |
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