Today in History
8 April
The Meeting on the Turret Stairs
Frederick William Burton
Christaan IX
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| 217 Caracalla (Marcus Aurelius Antonius), Roman emperor noted for his brutality, was assassinated as he launched a second campaign against the Parthians. | ||
| 1195 Alexius III Angelus drives out brother Isa„k II as Byzantine emperor | ||
| 1341 Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome |
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| 1378 Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI | ||
| 1455 Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III | ||
| 1460 Ponce de Le¢n, Spain, searched for fountain of youth, found Florida was born | ||
| 1500 Battle at Novara: King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza | ||
| 1513 Florida was discovered and claimed for Spain by Juan Ponce de Leon. | ||
| 1605 Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter was born | ||
| 1605 Philip IV, King of Spain & Portugal (1621-65) was born | ||
| 1716 Duke Karel Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin signs covenant with Russia & marries Czar Peter the Great's niece | ||
| 1726 Lewis Morris, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence) was born | ||
| 1730 1st Jewish congregation in US forms synagogue, "Shearith Israel, NYC" | ||
| 1759 British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India | ||
| 1766 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain | ||
| 1781 Premiere of Mozart's violin sonata K379 | ||
| 1783 Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim | The Meeting on the Turret Stairs |
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| 1783 John Claudius, London England, horticulturist was born | Frederick William Burton |
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| 1801 Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews | ||
| 1816 Frederick William Burton, painter was born | ||
| 1818 Christaan IX, king of Denmark (1863-1906) was born | ||
| 1818 August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist noted for his work on formaldehyde and coal-tar products, was born. | ||
| 1832 Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro | ||
| 1832 Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian fieldmarshal was born | ||
| 1838 Isambard Kingdom Brunel's 236-foot steamship Great Western sailed from Bristol, England, on her maiden voyage. It was the first to cross the Atlantic regularly. | ||
| 1848 1st battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians | ||
| 1848 Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru: Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro | ||
| 1861 US mint at Dahlonega, Georgia seized by confederacy | ||
| 1862 John D Lynde patents aerosol dispenser | ||
| 1869 American Museum of Natural History opens (NYC) |
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| 1876 Amiliare Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda," premieres in Milan | ||
| 1879 Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers | ||
| 1879 Milk was sold in glass bottles for 1st time | ||
| 1889 Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor, was born. In 1918 Gustav Holst asked him to conduct the first performance of "The Planets." | ||
| 1893 Actress Mary Pickford was born in Canada as Gladys Smith. An astute businesswoman, she formed the United Artists company in 1919 with Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith and Douglas Fairbanks. | ||
| 1898 Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese | ||
| 1904 John R Hicks, British economist (Nobel 1972) was born | ||
| 1904 The Anglo-French agreement known as the "Entente Cordiale" was signed. It settled all global differences between Britain and France, including disputes over Newfoundland, West Africa, Egypt and Morocco. | ||
| 1908 Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British premier | Christaan IX |
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| 1912 Steamers collide in Nile, drowning 200 | ||
| 1913 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified | ||
| 1913 Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing) | ||
| 1914 US & Colombia sign a treaty concerning Panama Canal Zone | ||
| 1916 Norway approves active & passive female suffrage | ||
| 1939 One day after invading Albania, Italian troops took the capital, Tirana, and King Zog fled to Greece. | ||
| 1940 Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious | ||
| 1943 Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma | ||
| 1943 Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya convicted of involvement with Mau Mau | ||
| 1945 Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands | ||
| 1946 League of Nations assembles for last time | ||
| 1952 Pres Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike | ||
| 1953 In Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta was convicted of involvement with the Mau Mau insurrection and was sentenced with five others to seven years' hard labor. | ||
| 1960 Netherland & Germany sign accord concerning war casualties | ||
| 1961 British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236 | ||
| 1962 Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France |
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| 1968 Czechoslovakia Cernik governament forms | ||
| 1968 New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect | ||
| 1973 Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor and pioneer of Cubism, died. Refusing to return to Spain during the Franco regime, he spent most of his life in France. His most noted works were "Demoiselles d'Avignon" and "Guernica." | ||
| 1974 Henry "Hank" Aaron hit the 715th home run of his career, breaking Babe Ruth's record. The home run was hit in Atlanta against the Los Angeles Dodgers. | ||
| 1977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin admitted he had violated the country's currency laws; he later resigned. | ||
| 1979 People's Republic of China joins IOC | ||
| 1986 Film actor Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, California. | ||
| 1986 Jennifer Guinness of the well-known brewing family was kidnapped in Ireland for a 2 million pound ransom. | ||
| 1990 King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties | ||
| 1990 Norwegian Scandinavian Star catches fire; about 170 die | ||
| 1991 Jockey, Bill Shoemaker, paralyzed in a car accident | ||
| 1991 Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of pancreas | ||
| 1992 PLO leader Yasser Arafat survived a plane crash in the Sahara desert; the plane's three crew members were killed. | ||
| 1994 Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa resigned over a loan scandal. | ||
| 1994 Smoking banned in Pentagon & all US military bases | ||
| 1994 South Africa's four key political leaders met at a bush camp in lion country for a peace summit aimed at stopping violence threatening free and fair elections. | ||
| 1996 Yugoslavia and its former republic of Macedonia signed a treaty to normalize relations. | ||
| 1997 Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0 | ||
| 1997 STS 83 (Columbia 22), lands | ||
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