Today in History
13 April
John Dryden
Thomas
Wentworth
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| 1055 Bishop Gebhard van Eichstatt named Pope Victor II | ||
| 1111 Pope Paschalis II crowns Roman catholics-German king Hendrik II | ||
| 1180 Republic day of Gelnhausen | ||
| 1204 Crusaders occupy Constantinople | ||
| 1241 Battle at Theiss: Mongols beat Hungarian King B‚la IV | ||
| 1346 Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy | ||
| 1367 Battle at N jera Spain: Castili‰ & England beat Arag˘n & France | ||
| 1519 Catherine de' Medici, Queen of Spain/daughter of Henry II was born | ||
| 1517 Osmaanse army occupies Cairo | ||
| 1556 Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope | ||
| 1593 Thomas Wentworth, London, earl of Strafford/Viceroy of Ireland was born | ||
| 1598 The Edict of Nantes granted political rights to French Huguenots. | ||
| 1640 English Short Parliament forms (- May 5) | ||
| 1668 John Dryden (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate | ||
| 1729 Thomas Percy, English literary/bishop of Dromore was born | ||
| 1741 Dutch people protest bad quality of bread | ||
| 1741 Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich | ||
| 1742 George Frederic Handel's "Messiah" performed for 1st time (Dublin) |
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| 1743 Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, (D-R) 3rd pres (1801-09) was born | ||
| 1759 French beat European Allies in Battle of Bergen | ||
| 1771 Richard Trevithick, Cornwall, inventor (steam locomotive) was born | ||
| 1796 The first elephant brought to America arrived from Bengal, India | ||
| 1796 Battle at Millesimo Italy: Napoleon beats Austrians | ||
| 1808 William Henry Lane, known as "Juda," perfected the tap dance. | ||
| 1817 Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian/archivist (Brussels) was born | ||
| 1828 Joseph B Lightfoot, English theologist/bishop of Durham was born | John Dryden |
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| 1829 The English Parliament granted freedom of religion to Catholics. | ||
| 1832 James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (electricstatic generator) was born | ||
| 1834 HMS Beagle anchors at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia | ||
| 1842 Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope | ||
| 1849 The Hungarian Republic was proclaimed. | ||
| 1861 After 34 hours of bombardment, Union forces at Ft. Sumter, off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, surrendered to the Confederates. | ||
| 1863 Hospital for Ruptured & Crippled in NY is 1st orthopedic hospital | ||
| 1865 Sherman's march through Georgia begins | ||
| 1869 Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse) | ||
| 1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in NYC | ||
| 1873 Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed) | ||
| 1882 Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia | ||
| 1902 JC Penney opened his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. | ||
| 1904 Battle at Oviumbo Africa: Herero's chase away German army | ||
| 1904 Congress authorizes Lewis & Clark Expo $1 gold coin | ||
| 1906 Mutiny on Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos & Vasco da Gama | ||
| 1908 Groundbreaking on Philadelphia's Shibe Park (home of A's & Phillies) | ||
| 1911 Polo Grounds grandstand & left field bleachers go up in flames | ||
| 1912 Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF) | ||
| 1918 Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital | ||
| 1919 Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India | ||
| 1919 British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre) | ||
| 1923 Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships |
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| 1924 Greek plebiscite for a republic | ||
| 1932 Kozakken Boys soccer team forms in Werkendam forms | ||
| 1933 1st flight over Mount Everest (Lord Clydesdale) | ||
| 1934 US Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act | ||
| 1940 2nd battle of Narvik-8 German destroyers, destroyed | ||
| 1941 Heavy German assault on Tobruk | ||
| 1941 Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect | ||
| 1943 FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial | ||
| 1943 Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn | ||
| 1943 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. | ||
| 1944 SC rejects black suffrage | Thomas |
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| 1944 Transport nr 71 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany | ||
| 1945 Canadian army liberates Teuge & Assen Neth from Nazis | ||
| 1945 Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna) | ||
| 1945 US marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa | ||
| 1946 Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage & price freeze over | ||
| 1948 75 scientists ambushed on way to Mount Scopus | ||
| 1954 Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist | ||
| 1959 USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit | ||
| 1959 A Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for Communists. | ||
| 1960 France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara | ||
| 1961 UN General Assembly condemns South-Africa's apartheid | ||
| 1964 Ian D Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia | ||
| 1964 New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day | ||
| 1975 Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war | ||
| 1979 Christian Turks occupy St Jansbasiliek | ||
| 1979 Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda | ||
| 1980 US boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow | ||
| 1983 Harold Washington elected 1st black mayor of Chicago | ||
| 1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | ||
| 1984 India beat Pak by 58 runs to win 1st Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah | ||
| 1985 Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania | ||
| 1986 Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue | ||
| 1986 Golfer Jack Nicklaus wins his sixth Masters at age 46. | ||
| 1987 Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999) | ||
| 1988 Italy govt of De Mita forms | ||
| 1994 President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death | ||
| 1994 United Arab Emirates' 1st official ODI, losing to India | ||