During the Mongol conquest of Eastern Persia, Ögedei and Chagatai massacred the residents of Otrar after a five-month siege in 1219 – 20 and joined Jochi who was outside the walls of Urganch.

established cities of the Silk Road including Otrar, Bukhara, and Samarkand in 1219, and successive campaigns until Genghis Khan's death in 1227 and beyond.

After Berke gave his allegiance to Kublai, Alghu declared war on Berke, seizing Otrar and Khorazm.

In 1218, Genghis Khan sent a trade mission to the state, but at the town of Otrar the governor, suspecting the Khan's ambassadors to be spies, confiscated their goods and executed them.

These events led Genghis to retaliate with a force of 100, 000 to 150, 000 men that crossed the Jaxartes in 1219 and sacked the cities of Samarkand, Bukhara, Otrar and others.

It became a commercial centre after the final demise of Otrar, the medieval city whose ruins lie near the Syr Darya to the southeast.

The most distant trade route described by Pegolotti is that from Azov via Astrakhan, Khiva, Otrar and Kulja to Beijing.

Coffee Plantation up São João do Manhuaçu City mouth – Minas Gerais State – Brazil.

* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

* 1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N. Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.

* 1967 – The Aldene Connection opened in Roselle Park, NJ, shutting down the CNJ's Jersey City waterfront terminal and transferring commuters to Newark Penn Station.

* 1966 – Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, Nebraska killing all 42 on board.

* 1988 – The Tompkins Square Park Riot in New York City spurs a reform of the NYPD, held responsible for the event.

* 1521 – Tenochtitlan ( present day Mexico City ) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés.

* 1962 – Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.

* 1789 – In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.

* 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army was liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under by General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

* 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

* 1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.

* 1947 – Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.

* 1986 – A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400, 000 books and other items.

* 1519 – Panama City, Panama, is founded.

* 1958 – Art Kane photographs 57 notable jazz musicians in the black and white group portrait " A Great Day in Harlem " in front of a Brownstone in New York City.

* 1938 – Jean-Paul L ' Allier, Canadian politician, 38th Mayor of Quebec City

* Aachen-emotion. com – photos, interviews, stories, audio files and video clips featuring Aachen – presented by Aachen City Council.

* 1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.

* City Wok – California, Colorado, Florida and North Carolina

* 1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.

* 1896 – Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin ( Quezon City ), in the province of Manila ( actual date and location is disputed ).

Casa Batlló () is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904 – 1906 ; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue ), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia ( the " Block of Discord ") in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.

In 1997, a team of researchers led by John Gustafson from Ames Laboratory ( located on the Iowa State campus ) finished building a working replica of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer at a cost of $ 350, 000.

Armanum was located on the Euphrates River between Ebla and Tell Brak, most likely at the Citadel of Bazi – Tall Banat complex.

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

* 2012 – At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province, China.

1990 ) are located at the entrance to Jerusalem, Israel, off the Jerusalem – Tel Aviv Highway.

The estate was conveniently located within easy walking distance of Bletchley railway station, where the " Varsity Line " between the cities of Oxford and Cambridge – whose universities supplied many of the code-breakers – met the ( then-LMS ) main West Coast railway line between London and Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow.

Subsequently, other listening stations – the Y-stations, ( such as the ones at Chicksands in Bedfordshire and Beaumanor Hall in Leicestershire where the headquarters of the War Office " Y " Group was located ) – gathered raw signals for processing at Bletchley.

* A bust and plaque located at his last residence, in New York City at 309 W. 57th Street, inscribed: " The Great Hungarian Composer / Béla Bartók / ( 1881 – 1945 ) / Made His Home In This House / During the Last Year of His Life ".

Existing restaurants located in the hotel have been closed following a take over of the property by Goldman Sachs with new development planned for "... a trio of restaurants run by Danny Meyer – the New York City restaurant wunderkind – as well as a new ballroom and conference centre, attached to the hotel which will be upgraded.

Because of the Nile's movement, the newer parts of the city – Garden City, Downtown Cairo, and Zamalek – are located closest to the riverbank.

Shoemaker – Levy 9, at the time captured by and orbiting Jupiter, was located on the night of March 24, 1993, in a photograph taken with the Schmidt telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California.

* Civil Defense Caves – Cold War community getaway in case of nuclear war located in Idaho

A war with Peru ( named the Cenepa War, after a river located in the area ) erupted in January – February 1995 in a small, remote region, where the boundary prescribed by the 1942 Rio Protocol was in dispute.

While most of the Centers are located around the Washington, D. C., area as part of the Headquarters divisions, two offices – the Office of Regulatory Affairs ( ORA ) and the Office of Criminal Investigations ( OCI ) – are primarily field offices with a workforce spread across the country.

In order to gain weaponry, some of the Red Guards located along the Viipuri-Tampere railway had been alerted beforehand, on 23 – 26 January, to safeguard Russian trains carrying a heavy shipment of weapons to the Finnish Reds, as agreed between Ali Aaltonen and V. I.

The Great Lakes, sometimes disambiguated as the Laurentian Great Lakes, are a collection of freshwater lakes located in northeastern North America, on the Canada – United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes Waterway.

* 1810 February – The Governor of Gibraltar removed the Spanish forts of San Felipe and Santa Barbara, located on the northern boundary of the neutral ground.

* Townhouses – Upperclassman – 35 two-bedroom townhouses located 1 / 8 of a mile north of the campus on State Route 123