366: The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire
1492: Muhammad XII, the last Emir of Granada, surrenders his city to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castile, ending both the Reconquista and centuries of Muslim rule in the Iberian peninsula
1570: Tsar Ivan the Terrible’s march to Novgorod begins
1905: American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms
1942: World War II: the 28 nations at war with Axis powers pledge to make no separate peace deals
1947: Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East Bengal
Source: Οnthisday.com
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