Today in History
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| 1500 France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan | ||
| 1512 Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen | ||
| 1512 James I, king of Scotland (1513-42) was born | ||
| 1512 James V of Scotland, who allied his country with France against the English, was born. He became king at the age of 17 months. | ||
| 1516 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice | ||
| 1552 Henri II of France occupies Metz | ||
| 1583 Hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law was born | ||
| 1589 Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg | ||
| 1656 Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon | ||
| 1633 Werner Fabricius, composer was born | ||
| 1694 Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoye attacks Casale | ||
| 1695 Balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator/historian was born | ||
| 1739 Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing | ||
| 1741 Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz | ||
| 1741 Frederick II of Prussia defeated Maria Theresa's forces at Mollwitz and conquered Silesia was born | ||
| 1755 Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, German physician who pioneered homeopathic medicine, was born. | ||
| 1778 William Hazlitt, English writer, essayist, philosopher and critic, was born. | ||
| 1790 Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth | ||
| 1790 US Patent system forms | ||
| 1814 Napoleon's army was defeated by the British and Spanish at the Battle of Toulouse; the defeat led to his abdication and exile to Elba. | ||
| 1815 Austria declares war on realm of Naples | ||
| 1825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens | ||
| 1825 Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Le¢n | ||
| 1827 Lew Wallace, U.S. novelist, soldier, diplomat and lawyer, was born; he was best known for "Ben Hur." | ||
| 1829 William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, was born. In 1865 he started the Christian Mission in London's East End, which in 1878 became the Salvation Army. | ||
| 1835 Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile | ||
| 1845 More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa | ||
| 1847 Joseph Pulitzer, U.S. newspaper owner who instituted the Pulitzer Prizes, was born. | ||
| 1854 the constitution of the Orange Free State in south Africa was proclaimed. | ||
| 1864 Archduke Maximilian of Austria accepted the throne of Mexico | ||
| 1868 1st performance of John Brahms' "Ein german Requiem" | ||
| 1868 Brits defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala | ||
| 1868 George Arliss, British actor of stage and screen, was born. He was famous for his portrayals of Disraeli, Voltaire, Richelieu and Wellington. | ||
| 1871 William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted | ||
| 1877 1st human cannonball act performed in London | ||
| 1882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii) | ||
| 1884 US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo | ||
| 1887 President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield Il | ||
| 1912 RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st & last voyage | ||
| 1916 1st professional golf tournament held | ||
| 1917 Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers | ||
| 1919 Revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata was ambushed and killed by government troops in Mexico. | ||
| 1921 Sun Yat-sen was elected president of China | ||
| 1922 the Genoa Conference opened to discuss the reconstruction of Europe after World War I. | ||
| 1925 Czarina re-christened Stalingrad (now Volgograd) | ||
| 1930 George Headley scores 223 v England at Kingston | ||
| 1932 Paul von Hindenburg received 19 million votes in German presidential elections, beating Adolf Hitler's 13 million votes. | ||
| 1932 actor Omar Sharif was born in Egypt as Michael Shalhoub; he played the popular romantic leads in such films as "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago." | ||
| 1938 2nd govt of Blum replaced by Daladier govt in France | ||
| 1938 In a referendum, 99.75 percent of Austrians voted for a merger with Germany. | ||
| 1939 Colijn's Dutch govt opens camp Westerbork for German Jews | ||
| 1939 Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania | ||
| 1940 Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government" | ||
| 1941 German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica | ||
| 1942 Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland | ||
| 1943 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape nazis | ||
| 1943 General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia | ||
| 1944 Russian troops recaptured Odessa from the Germans in World War II. | ||
| 1944 A British midget submarine secretly entered Bergen harbor in Norway and sank the German merchant ship Barenfels. | ||
| 1945 Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech) | ||
| 1945 Canadian troops conquer Deventer | ||
| 1945 General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland" | ||
| 1945 German troops attack Ijsselbrug | ||
| 1945 NFL's Boston Yanks & Brooklyn Tigers merge | ||
| 1945 US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa | ||
| 1945 US troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany | ||
| 1945 William Schuman & Antony Tudors ballet premieres in NYC | ||
| 1946 1st election for Japanese Diet | ||
| 1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball (Dodgers) | ||
| 1947 King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned | ||
| 1948 Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek | ||
| 1953 Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden was installed as secretary-general of the United Nations for a five-year term; he started a second term on the same date in 1958 | ||
| 1954 Pioneering French film director Auguste Lumiere died. Together with his brother Louis Jean, he was responsible for many early inventions in movie history, including making what is considered to be the first film. | ||
| 1955 Dr Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine | ||
| 1955 Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely | ||
| 1957 Jordanian govt of Naboelsi resigns | ||
| 1957 Suez canal reopens for all traffic | ||
| 1958 Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco | ||
| 1959 Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda | ||
| 1961 Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel | ||
| 1961 Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to JFK about New Guinea | ||
| 1962 Film director Michael Curtiz died; born in Hungary as Mihali Kertesz, he won an Oscar for "Casablanca." | ||
| 1963 The U.S. submarine Thresher sank off Cape Cod in the Atlantic with the loss of 129 lives. | ||
| 1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | ||
| 1964 Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project | ||
| 1964 Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf) | ||
| 1966 Evelyn Waugh, English novelist, died; his works included "Scoop," "The Loved One" and "Brideshead Revisited." | ||
| 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | ||
| 1972 An earthquake struck southern Iran, killing more than 5,000 people. | ||
| 1972 US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons | ||
| 1972 More than 50 countries signed a treaty outlawing the stockpiling of biological weapons. | ||
| 1973 In Switzerland, 108 people died when a plane crashed while attempting to land at Basel. | ||
| 1973 Pakistan suspends constitution | ||
| 1974 American Boccaccio Association forms | ||
| 1974 Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir resigned over differences within her Labor Party. | ||
| 1979 Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian | ||
| 1980 Spain and Britain agreed to reopen the border between Gibraltar and Spain, closed in 1969. | ||
| 1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to Brit Parliament | ||
| 1983 Jordan king Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO | ||
| 1983 President Reagan's Middle East peace plan collapsed when King Hussein of Jordan failed to reach agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization on the terms of the deal. | ||
| 1984 US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors | ||
| 1985 At 80 Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game | ||
| 1986 Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan | ||
| 1988 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA San Diego Inamori Golf Classic | ||
| 1990 Three European hostages kidnapped at sea in 1987 by Palestinian extremists were released in Beirut and handed to the French Embassy. | ||
| 1992 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka | ||
| 1992 A huge Irish Republican Army bomb exploded in London's financial district; three people were killed and 91 injured. | ||
| 1993 South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani was assassinated. | ||
| 1994 NATO warplanes launched air strikes for the first time on Serb forces advancing on the Bosnian Muslim town of Gorazde, a U.N.-declared safe area. | ||
| 1994 Argentines approved a reform allowing President Carlos Menem to run for a second term. | ||
| 1995 Morarji Desai, former India prime minister, died. | ||
| 1995 Veteran revolutionary Chen Yun, one of China's leading economic planners, died at 90. | ||
| 1996 Chinese Premier Li Peng's visit to France was marred by a diplomatic wrangle with his French counterpart, Alain Juppe, over human rights. | ||
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