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Because It had a bluetooth

1804 Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of France in Notre Dame Cathedral.

1805 Napoleon Bonaparte celebrates the first anniversary of his coronation with a victory at Austerlitz over a Russian and Austrian army.

1823 President James Monroe proclaims the principles known as the Monroe Doctrine, "that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by European powers."

1863 General Braxton Bragg turns over command of the Army of Tennessee to General William Hardee at Dalton, Ga.

1864 Major General Grenville M. Dodge is named to replace General William Rosecrans as Commander of the Department of Missouri.

1867 People wait in mile-long lines to hear Charles Dickens give his first reading in New York City.

1907 Spain and France agree to enforce Moroccan measures adopted in 1906.

1909 J.P. Morgan acquires majority holdings in Equitable Life Co. This is the largest concentration of bank power to date.

1914 Austrian troops occupy Belgrade, Serbia.

1918 Armenia proclaims independence from Turkey.