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2013 Event - The Falkland Islands sovereignty referendum resulted in 99.8% of voters supporting that the Islands remain an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom

2013 Event - Falkland Island residents complete the first day of a two day sovereignty referendum, determining whether the islands should remain a British overseas territory

2012 Event - Australians in the country's Northern Territory elect the Country Liberal Party

2012 Event - The first deployment of U.S. Marines arrives in Australia's city of Darwin in the Northern Territory

2010 Event - The oldest type of stone axe in the world is dated at 35,500 years old; it was found in Australia's Northern Territory in the lands of the Jawoyn people

1995 Event - Centennial of Canadian Mounties presence in Canada's Yukon Territory

1992 Death - Lloyd "Slim" Andrews, actor (Buf Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies

1982 Event - Anguilla, dependent territory of U.K., adopts constitution

1981 Event - Palau, Trust Territory of Pacific Islands, becomes self-governing

1978 Event - Northern Territory of Australia becomes self-governing

1977 Event - Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel

1972 Event - Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of U.S., U.S. Air Force

1972 Event - Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory

1971 Death - Rodd Redwing, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies at 66

1967 Death - House Peters, silent film actor (Kansas Territory), dies at 87

1965 Event - British Indian Ocean Territory formed

1962 Event - British Antarctic Territory forms

1961 Event - Wallis and Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory

1961 Event - Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minn/St. Paul territory

1956 Event - Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union

1956 Birthday - James H Newman, Trust Territory of Pacific, PhD/Astronaut, STS-51, 69

1956 Event - Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory

1950 Birthday - Gary Frank, Spokane, Washington, actor, Enemy Territory, Deadly Weapon

1949 Event - Administration of territory of Manipur taken over by Indian government

1948 Event - Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh created

1947 Event - U.S. begins administering Trust Territory of Pacific Islands

1946 Event - Togo made a trusteeship territory of UN

1944 Event - Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory

1943 Event - U.S. 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st U.S. territory recaptured)

1939 Event - Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany

1938 Event - Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany

1936 Event - Australian Antarctic Territory created

1932 Event - Fascist coup in the Memel territory

1929 Event - American Samoa organizes as territory of U.S.

1923 Event - Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory

1920 Event - France occupies (German) Memel territory

1917 Event - Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, U.S. citizenship granted

1912 Event - Territory of Alaska organizes

1911 Event - South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government

1910 Event - JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory

1904 Birthday - Rod Redwing, New York, actor, Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory

1900 Event - Hawaii became a U.S. territory

1898 Event - Guam becomes a territory of U.S.

1898 Event - Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital

1892 Birthday - Edmund Cobb, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, western actor, Comanche Territory

1890 Birthday - Klaas Schilder, Dutch theologist/vicar, Occupied Territory

1890 Event - Territory of Oklahoma created

1884 Event - Alaska becomes a U.S. territory

1880 Birthday - House Peters, England, silent film actor, Kansas Territory

1879 Birthday - Will Rogers, Oologah Indian Territory, Okla, humorist

1869 Event - Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (U.S. 1st)

1869 Event - Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada

1868 Event - U.S. Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah and Idaho)

1864 Event - Territory of Montana formed

1863 Event - Battle of Honey Springs - largest battle in Indian Territory

1863 Event - Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia

1863 Event - Territory of Idaho established

1863 Event - Idaho Territory forms

1863 Event - Arizona Territory created

1862 Event - Battle at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory

1862 Event - Battle of La Glorieta Pass, New Mexico Territory (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)

1862 Event - Confederate Territory of Arizona forms

1861 Event - CS General Sibley is given command of rebel troops in New Mexico territory

1861 Event - President Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory

1861 Event - Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union

1854 Event - 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast

1853 Event - Olympia forms as capital of Washington Territory

1853 Event - Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory

1849 Event - Minnesota Territory is organizes

1849 Event - Territory of Minnesota organizes

1848 Event - Oregon Territory created

1844 Event - Texas became a U.S. territory

1841 Event - Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain

1838 Event - Iowa Territory forms

1838 Event - Iowa Territory is organized

1836 Event - Wisconsin Territory forms

1836 Event - Territory of Wisconsin created

1836 Event - Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin

1834 Event - Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)

1822 Event - Congress combined East and West Florida into Florida Territory

1819 Event - Territory of Arkansas organized

1817 Event - Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory and Mississippi

1812 Event - General Hull surrenders Detroit and Michigan territory to England

1812 Event - Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"

1809 Event - Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)

1805 Event - Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms

1805 Event - Michigan Territory organizes

1804 Event - Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase

1803 Event - Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France

1800 Event - Indiana Territory organized

1798 Event - Mississippi Territory organized

1792 Event - Prussia army moves into French territory

1790 Event - Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress

1787 Event - Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)

1787 Event - Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop

1774 Event - Britain gives Quebec, Labrador and territory north of Ohio

1681 Event - English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania

918 Death - Boudouin II the Bare, originator of Flanders territory, dies

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