Today in History
24th February
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Charles Cornwallis
Lady Astor
Portrait is by John Singer Sargent.
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| 1208 St Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy | ||
| 1296 Pope Boniface VIII degree Clericis Iaicos | ||
| 1389 King Albert of Sweden was defeated and captured by the Danes at the battle of Falkoeping; the outcome left Margaret of Denmark effective ruler of both Sweden and Denmark. |
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| 1463 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italy, scholar/platonist was born | ||
| 1496 England's Henry VII ends commercial dispute with Flanders | ||
| 1500 Carlos V, King of Spain (1516-56)/Holy Roman Emperor was born | ||
| 1510 Pope Julius II excommunicates the republic of Venice | ||
| 1525 In the French wars in Italy, Francis I was defeated by a Spanish force under Marquis de Pescara at the battle of Pavia. The battle marked one of the earliest uses of the arquebus, or musket. | ||
| 1525 Imperial forces defeat French in battle of Pavia | ||
| 1527 Ferdinand of Austria crowned as king of Bohemia | ||
| 1528 Hungarian anti-king J nos Z polyai & Sultan Suleiman signs treaty | ||
| 1530 1st imperial coronation by a Pope, Charles V crowned by Clement V | Giovanni Pico della Mirandola |
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| 1536 Clement VIII, [Ippolito Aldofireini], Fano Italy, Pope (1592-1605) was born | ||
| 1538 King Ferdinand of Austria & King J nos Z polyai of Hungary sign Peace of Grosswardein | ||
| 1541 Santiago, Chile founded by Pedro de Valvidia (or 2/12) | ||
| 1552 Privileges of Hanseatic League in England are abrogated | ||
| 1563 In France's Wars of Religion, Francis, Duc de Guise, was assassinated by a Huguenot while besieging Orleans. | ||
| 1582 Pope Gregory XIII issued a Papal Bull introducing the Gregorian calendar, replacing the Julian version. | ||
| 1597 Flemish painter Frederick of Valckenborch becomes porter of Frankfurt-on-Main | ||
| 1613 English princess Elizabeth marries earl Frederik of Palts |
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| 1684 Catherine I, Empress of Russia 1725-27, Dorpat, Estonia was born | ||
| 1704 Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer, died. | ||
| 1708 Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Groningen | ||
| 1711 Handel's opera "Rinaldo" premieres, London | ||
| 1779 George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (Ind) from British | ||
| 1786 Charles Cornwallis appointed governor-general of India | ||
| 1786 Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Hanau Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales) was born | ||
| 1793 French troops conquer Breda | ||
| 1825 Thomas Bowdler, British editor, died. He edited a censored version of the works of Shakespeare, giving the word "bowdlerise" to the English language. | ||
| 1831 George Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor/premier of Prussia | ||
| 1836 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at Alamo, lasts 13 days | Charles Cornwallis |
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| 1839 Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia | ||
| 1842 Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer was born | ||
| 1848 After a revolution in Paris, Louis Philippe of France abdicated in favor of his grandson, the Comte de Paris. The move failed and the Second Republic was proclaimed two days later. | ||
| 1863 Arizona Territory created | ||
| 1868 Andrew Johnson, 17th president of the United States, became the first president to have impeachment proceedings brought against him by the House of Representatives. | ||
| 1881 De Lesseps' Co begins work on Panama Canal | ||
| 1887 Paris and Brussels became the first two capital cities to be linked by telephone. | ||
| 1891 French troops under capt Archinard occupy Diena West Sudan | ||
| 1894 Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of) |
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| 1895 Cuban war for independence begins | ||
| 1902 Battle at Yzer Spruit: Boer general De la Rey beats British | ||
| 1903 US signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba | ||
| 1905 Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed | ||
| 1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram) | ||
| 1918 Estonia declares independence from Russia | ||
| 1920 Lady Astor, first woman member of the British Parliament, made her maiden speech. | ||
| 1920 Peace treaty gives Estonia independence | ||
| 1920 An extremist political group in Germany outlined its program to create a Third German Reich. Its spokesman, Adolf Hitler, said it would change its name to the National Socialist German Workers' Party. | ||
| 1924 Greek parliament proclaims republic | ||
| 1924 Mahatma Gandhi released from jail | Lady Astor |
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| 1933 League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria | ||
| 1938 Nylon was produced for the first time in Arlington, New Jersey; it was used for toothbrush bristles. | ||
| 1942 The Voice of America radio station broadcast for the first time with the words "The Voice of America speaks. ... we shall speak to you about America and the war. The news may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth." | ||
| 1944 Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war | ||
| 1945 Egypt & Syria declares war on nazi-Germany | ||
| 1945 Manila freed from Japanese | ||
| 1945 Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Maher Pasha was shot dead in Parliament just after reading a declaration of war on Germany and Japan. | ||
| 1946 Juan Peron was elected president of Argentina. | ||
| 1948 Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia | ||
| 1949 Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement | ||
| 1950 Labour wins British parliamentary election | ||
| 1955 Pact of Baghdad between Iraq & Turkey signed | ||
| 1960 Italian govt of Segni falls | ||
| 1962 General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea | ||
| 1965 East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt | ||
| 1966 In Ghana, President Kwame Nkrumah, president since independence, was overthrown in an army coup. | ||
| 1968 US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam | ||
| 1971 Algeria nationalizes French oil companies | ||
| 1972 Romania and Hungary signed a new 20-year friendship treaty. | ||
| 1974 At the end of an Islamic conference, Pakistan said it officially recognized Bangladesh as an independent nation. | ||
| 1979 War between North & South Yemen begins | ||
| 1981 Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer | ||
| 1984 Iraq resumes air attack on Iran | ||
| 1986 Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million | ||
| 1986 Voyager 2, 1st Uranus flyby | ||
| 1988 South African apartheid regime bans the UDF | ||
| 1989 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found | ||
| 1989 US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die | ||
| 1991 In the Gulf War, the ground campaign began with an allied night attack. More than 14,000 Iraqis were captured in the first 24 hours of fighting. | ||
| 1993 Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announced his resignation as Conservative Party leader. | ||
| 1994 Syria granted exit visas to all 1,000 Syrian Jews still living in the country, allowing them to travel abroad if they wished. | ||
| 1994 Dinah Shore, legendary U.S. singer and entertainer, died. | ||
| 1997 Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb 19th) | ||
| 1998 Elton John knighted |
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