Today in History
28th February
Henry James
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| 1066 Westminster Abbey opens | ||
| 1570 Anti-Portugese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas | ||
| 1610 Thomas West, Baron de La Mar, is appointed governor of Virginia |
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| 1638 Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convent, Greyfriars, Edinburgh | ||
| 1646 Roger Scott was tried in Mass for sleeping in church | ||
| 1667 English colony Suriname in Dutch hands | ||
| 1690 Aleksei P Romanov, Russia, son of Peter the Great was born | ||
| 1704 Indians attack Deerfield, Mass, kill 40, kidnap 100 | ||
| 1708 Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die | ||
| 1730 Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy | ||
| 1759 Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages | ||
| 1764 Robert Haldane, Scottish theologist/philanthropist was born | ||
| 1778 Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves | ||
| 1784 John Wesley signed the "deed of declaration" formalizing the establishment of the Wesleyan faith, or Methodists. | ||
| 1817 James Craig, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1888 was born | ||
| 1820 John Tenniel, England, cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland) was born | ||
| 1825 A treaty was signed between Britain and Russia settling the border between Canada and Alaska, then a Russia possession. | ||
| 1827 1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered | ||
| 1844 On the Potomac River the U.S. navy was demonstrating its new frigate Princeton when one of its guns exploded, killing the Secretary of State, Navy Secretary and other government officials. | ||
| 1847 US defeats Mexico in battle of Sacramento | ||
| 1854 Opponents of slavery in the United States met at Ripon, Wisconsin, and agreed to form a new political party; the Republican Party was born later in the year. | ||
| 1859 Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery | ||
| 1861 Territories of Nevada & Colorado created | ||
| 1865 Wilfred Grenfell, England, medical missionary was born | ||
| 1866 Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet | ||
| 1896 France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar |
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| 1900 In the Boer War, Ladysmith was relieved by Gen. Redvers Buller. | ||
| 1901 Linus Pauling, chemist/peace worker (Nobel 1954, 1962) was born | ||
| 1908 Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran | ||
| 1916 Henry James, American novelist, died in England. | ||
| 1917 AP reports Mexico & Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I | ||
| 1917 Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets | ||
| 1921 Russia and Afghanistan signed a treaty of friendship providing political and financial aid for the Afghans. | ||
| 1921 The Kronstadt Rebellion began in Russia when sailors of the Baltic Fleet and workers at Kronstadt naval base rose up against the Communist government. | ||
| 1922 Britain formally declared Egypt's independence, although it still retained control of the Suez Canal and the country's defense. | ||
| 1924 US begins intervention in Honduras | ||
| 1925 Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms | ||
| 1931 In Britain Sir Oswald Mosley formed the "New Party" which he said was dedicated to turning parliament "from a talk-shop into a workshop"; the party later evolved into the British Union of Fascists. | ||
| 1933 A day after the Reichstag burned down, Adolf Hitler persuaded President Hindenburg to sign a decree suspending guarantees of personal liberty, freedom of speech and the press and the right of assembly. | ||
| 1941 Alfonso XIII, ex-king of Spain, died in exile. After elections in 1931 which voted in the Republicans, Alfonso refused to abdicate and was forced to leave Spain. |
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| 1941 British-Italian dogfight above Albania | ||
| 1942 Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies | ||
| 1947 Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan | ||
| 1948 The last British troops left India. | ||
| 1952 Vincent Massey took office as governor-general of Canada, the first Canadian to hold the office. | ||
| 1956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory | ||
| 1967 Henry Luce, American publisher, died. He was a co-founder of Time magazine and also founded Life and Fortune. | Henry James |
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| 1971 The male voters of Liechtenstein defeated a referendum on giving women the vote. | ||
| 1974 A general election in Britain produced a minority Labour government under Harold Wilson. | ||
| 1974 US & Egypt re-form diplomatic relations after 7 years | ||
| 1975 In the worst underground train crash in Britain, 42 people died when a train crashed into the buffers at Moorgate station, London. | ||
| 1976 Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand signed a treaty of Friendship and co-operation. | ||
| 1976 Spain withdraws from Western Sahara | ||
| 1981 China PR throws out Neth ambassador due to submarine sale to Taiwan | ||
| 1983 The final episode of "M*A*S*H" was aired on CBS. | ||
| 1986 Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated by a gunman in central Stockholm. | ||
| 1988 Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed | ||
| 1991 After 42 days of the Gulf War, U.S.-led forces ceased fire at 8 a.m. Kuwait time and Iraq told its army to stop fighting. | ||
| 1993 The seige at Waco, Texas, began after federal aqents tried to serve an arrest warrant for weapons charges on Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh. | ||
| 1994 NATO jets shot down four warplanes violating Bosnia's no-fly zone. | ||
| 1994 Moldova's main independence party claimed a clear victory in the country's first post-Soviet parliamentary elections. | ||
| 1995 Denver International Airport opens | ||
| 1996 Calling it the saddest day of her life, Britain's Princess Diana agreed to divorce her estranged husband, Prince Charles. | ||
| 1996 Russia was admitted as the 39th member of the Council of Europe. | ||
| 1997 Earthquake in Pakistan, kills 45 | ||
| 1997 FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia | ||