Today in History
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| 1349 Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand | ||
| 1438 Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara | ||
| 1463 French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris | ||
| 1477 Charles the Bold was defeated and killed by the Swiss at the Battle of Nancy in the Swiss-Burgundian Wars. | ||
| 1500 Duke Ludovico Sforza's troops reconquer Milan | ||
| 1531 Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry | ||
| 1554 Great fire in Eindhoven Netherlan | ||
| 1593 William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe | ||
| 1638 Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues | ||
| 1649 Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone," premieres in Venice | ||
| 1675 Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg | ||
| 1709 Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans | ||
| 1717 Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles | ||
| 1719 Engl/Hannover/Saxony-Poland/Austria sign anti-Prussian/Russian pact | ||
| 1757 Jean-Francois Damiens attempted to assassinate Louis XV of France as he was entering his carriage at Versailles. Damiens was later executed. | ||
| 1762 Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, died and was succeeded by her nephew Peter III. | ||
| 1776 Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution | ||
| 1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va | ||
| 1809 Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire signed the Treaty of Dardanelles, also called the Treaty of Canak. Its main provision was to decree that no warship of any power should enter the Dardanelles or Bosphorus. | ||
| 1822 Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire | ||
| 1828 1st edition of Amsterdam General Trade Journal (Algemeen Handelsblad) | ||
| 1840 Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date | ||
| 1858 Joseph Radetzky, Austrian military reformer whose victorious campaigns made him a national hero, died. | ||
| 1896 German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays | ||
| 1903 SF-Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use | ||
| 1905 National Association of Audubon Society incorporates | ||
| 1909 Colombia recognizes Panama's independence | ||
| 1911 Portuguese expel Jesuits | ||
| 1916 Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro | ||
| 1919 Spartacists in Berlin led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht attempted to take over the government and seized a number of buildings. | ||
| 1919 The German Workers Party, later to be called the Nazi Party, was formed. | ||
| 1922 Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, British Antarctic explorer, died. He died in South Georgia, part of the Falkland Islands, as he attempted a fourth expedition to the Antarctic. | ||
| 1925 Nellie Taylor Ross took up her post as governor of Wyoming to become the first woman governor of the United States. | ||
| 1929 Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia | ||
| 1930 Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire" | ||
| 1933 Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. president, died. He was governor of Massachusetts and became vice-president in 1921. He succeeded to the presidency on Warren Harding's death in 1923 and was elected in 1924. | ||
| 1938 King Juan Carlos I of Spain born. Groomed by Francisco Franco to inherit his right-wing dictatorship, he steered Spain to democracy. | ||
| 1940 Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia | ||
| 1941 British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia | ||
| 1942 55 German tanks reach North-Africa | ||
| 1943 Teams agrees to start season later due to WW II | ||
| 1949 General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra | ||
| 1957 Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East | ||
| 1961 US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba | ||
| 1964 During his visit to the Holy Land, Pope Paul VI met Patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem, the first encounter by the leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the 15th century. | ||
| 1968 Alexander Dubcek succeeded Antonin Novotny as first secretary of Czechoslovakia's Communist Party. His attempt to liberalize the country, dubbed "Communism with a human face," provoked the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact occupation. | ||
| 1969 Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman & Karl Shapiro | ||
| 1969 The Soviet interplanetary spacecraft Venus 5 was launched, followed five days later by Venus 6. They reached Venus on May 16 and 17 respectively. | ||
| 1970 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike | ||
| 1971 Chile's socialist government led by Salvador Allende agreed to establish diplomatic relations with China. | ||
| 1972 West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed | ||
| 1972 U.S. President Richard Nixon signed a bill instructing NASA to begin research on a manned space shuttle. | ||
| 1973 Mali & Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel | ||
| 1975 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon | ||
| 1976 The Khmer Rouge promulgated a new constitution in Cambodia, renaming it Democratic Kampuchea. | ||
| 1977 Kenya president Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament | ||
| 1994 Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.82) | ||
| 1995 Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed | ||
| 1996 Miami Dolphin coach Don Shula announces his retirement | ||
| 1996 Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, admired in the West but reviled by Russian conservatives, resigned. | ||
| 1996 Yahya Ayyash, the elusive mastermind behind a wave of Islamic suicide bombings against Israel, was killed in Gaza by a booby-trapped cellular telephone. | ||
| 1997 Russia withdrew the last of its Defense Ministry troops from Chechnya, marking a formal end to Moscow's ill-fated military campaign in the region | ||
| 1998 Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec & Ontario | ||
| 1998 Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid | ||
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