Today in History
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| 1118 Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, at Capua. | ||
| 1348 Prague University, the first in central Europe, was founded by Charles IV, King of Bohemia. | ||
| 1456 Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik | ||
| 1498 Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy | ||
| 1506 St. Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit missionary, was born. One of the best known Roman Catholic missionaries, he brought Christianity to Japan and India. | ||
| 1509 France declares war on Venice | ||
| 1521 Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books | ||
| 1584 Ieper surrenders to duke Van Parma | ||
| 1622 Louise Hollandine, daughter of King Frederik V & Elizabeth Stuart was born | ||
| 1625 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander | ||
| 1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil | ||
| 1648 Ferdinand van Kessel, Flemish painter was born | ||
| 1652 Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, S Africa | ||
| 1652 Clement XII, [Lorenzo Corsini], Italy, Pope (1730-40) was born | ||
| 1655 Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII | ||
| 1712 Slave revolt (NYC) | ||
| 1724 Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig | ||
| 1727 Michel Adanson, French biologist (Natural History of Senegal) was born | ||
| 1739 Dick Turpin, English highwayman, was hanged for murder at York. Before turning into a highwayman, he was a butcher's apprentice. | ||
| 1756 Charles Felix, King of Sardina (1821-31) was born | ||
| 1770 William Wordsworth, English poet, was born. The English Lake District supplied the inspiration for much of his best poetry. | ||
| 1823 French forces under Louis de Bourbon invaded Spain, beginning the Franco-Spanish war. | ||
| 1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches | ||
| 1831 Pedro I of Brazil abdicated in favor of his son Pedro II in order to return to Portugal. | ||
| 1860 W K Kellogg, a real corn flake was born | ||
| 1862 In the U.S. civil war, the Federal army under Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates under Albert Johnston at the Battle of Shiloh. | ||
| 1869 David Grandison Fairchild, US, botanist/explorer, brought plants to US was born | ||
| 1870 Joseph Ryeland, Belgian composer/Baron was born | ||
| 1872 William Monroe Trotter, famous African was born | ||
| 1884 Charles Dodd, English new testament authority was born | ||
| 1891 Phineas T. Barnum, U.S. showman, died. Famed for his amusements and spectacular circuses, he also brought Swedish operatic soprano Jenny Lind to tour America in 1850. | ||
| 1891 Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day | ||
| 1901 SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber | ||
| 1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms | ||
| 1906 Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business | ||
| 1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo Calif) | ||
| 1926 Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose | ||
| 1927 The first successful long-distance demonstration of television took place in the United States. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover made a speech in Washington, which was seen and heard on a television in New York. | ||
| 1933 1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal & public service | ||
| 1933 Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment | ||
| 1934 In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience. | ||
| 1939 Italian troops began their invasion of Albania. | ||
| 1939 Francis Ford Coppola, U.S. film director and Oscar winner for "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now," was born. | ||
| 1940 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T Washington) | ||
| 1941 British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa | ||
| 1942 Heavy German assault on Malta | ||
| 1943 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg. | ||
| 1943 British/US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia | ||
| 1943 Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid | ||
| 1943 The drug LSD was first produced at Sandoz Laboratorie in Basel, Switzerland, by Albert Hofman | ||
| 1944 General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan | ||
| 1945 1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers | ||
| 1945 US B-17's bombs range at Luneburg | ||
| 1945 US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide | ||
| 1945 U.S. navy aircraft sank Japan's largest battleship, the Yamato. | ||
| 1946 Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR | ||
| 1947 Henry Ford, U.S. motor manufacturer, died. He pioneered the assembly line mass production technique. | ||
| 1948 The constitution of the World Health Organization came into force. | ||
| 1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight | ||
| 1953 Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden was elected Secretary General of the United Nations by 57 votes to one. | ||
| 1954 Pres Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China | ||
| 1955 Theda Bara (Theodosia Goodman), U.S. silent film actress, died. In films from 1915, she was best known for her exotic roles in films notably "Carmen" and "Cleopatra." | ||
| 1956 A declaration signed by Morocco and Spain recognized the independence of Morocco. | ||
| 1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years | ||
| 1962 Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail | ||
| 1963 The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was established with Marshall Tito as its president for life. | ||
| 1967 Israeli/Syrian border fights | ||
| 1970 A U.S. federal court confirmed it had closed the investigation of Sen. Edward Kennedy over the car crash in which Mary Jo Kopechne died at Chappaquiddick in 1969. | ||
| 1972 Sheikh Abeid Karume, Tanzanian vice president and ruler of Zanzibar, was assassinated. | ||
| 1973 Cleveland sets day-game & opening-game attendance records of 74,420 | ||
| 1976 After unprecedented riots in Peking, Deng Xiaoping was removed as a deputy prime minister and Hua Guofeng was promoted to full premier. | ||
| 1978 Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC | ||
| 1978 Pres Carter defers production of neutron bomb | ||
| 1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter broke off diplomatic relations with Iran and ordered out all Iranian embassy staff because of the detention of U.S. embassy hostages in Tehran. | ||
| 1981 Belgium Eyskens governament forms | ||
| 1981 Voters approved a new constitution in the Philippines, giving President Marcos sweeping powers. | ||
| 1982 Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested | ||
| 1983 Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt | ||
| 1985 1st live telecast of Easter Parade | ||
| 1987 National Museum of Female Physician opens in Wash DC | ||
| 1988 Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested | ||
| 1988 Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan | ||
| 1990 The Scandinavian Star, a Bahamas-registered ferry operated by the Da No Line, caught fire while on a journey between Norway and Denmark; 158 people were killed. | ||
| 1990 John Poindexter (Natl Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal | ||
| 1994 "Medea" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 82 performances | ||
| 1994 Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazis killing Jews) for 1st time | ||
| 1994 Rwandan Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana was killed as troops, presidential guards, police and gangs of youths rampaged through the capital Kigali in a chaotic orgy of bloodletting. | ||
| 1994 Israel sealed off the occupied West bank and Gaza Strip, banning Palestinians from entering Israel and East Jerusalem after two Arab guerrilla attacks. | ||
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