Today in History
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| 871 The Danes were defeated by the West Saxons under Ethelred and Alfred the Great at the battle of Ashdown. | ||
| 1066 Harold was crowned king of England following the death of his brother-in-law Edward the Confessor; he was England's last Anglo-Saxon king. | ||
| 1099 Henry V, second son of Henry IV and his first wife, Bertha of Turin, was crowned king of Germany. | ||
| 1169 England and France agreed to peace when Louis VII and Henry II met at Montmirail. | ||
| 1227 Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre | ||
| 1352 French king Jean II introduces Order of the Star | ||
| 1367 Richard II, Bordeaux, France, king of England (1377-99) was born | ||
| 1453 Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria | ||
| 1488 Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (Silvae) was born | ||
| 1496 Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi | ||
| 1497 Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria) | ||
| 1535 City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro | ||
| 1540 Henry VIII of England married Anne of Cleves, his fourth wife. | ||
| 1579 Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras | ||
| 1622 Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide | ||
| 1639 Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed | ||
| 1663 Great earthquake in New England | ||
| 1690 Emperor Leopold's son Jozef chosen Roman Catholic king | ||
| 1728 Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright/poet was born | ||
| 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow | ||
| 1759 George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis | ||
| 1773 Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom | ||
| 1781 Battle of Jersey (Island in UK) | ||
| 1784 Turkey & Russia sign treaty in Constantinople | ||
| 1799 Jedediah Strong Smith, US fur trader/explorer was born | ||
| 1802 Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer (Gramatica) was born | ||
| 1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston) | ||
| 1838 Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph | ||
| 1839 2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "Big Wind" | ||
| 1842 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India | ||
| 1873 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia" | ||
| 1884 Gregor Mendel, Austrian Augustine monk, biologist and botanist, died. He pioneered the study of biological heredity and laid the mathematical foundation of the science of genetics. | ||
| 1898 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake | ||
| 1900 Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured | ||
| 1907 Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome) | ||
| 1912 New Mexico became the 47th state admitted to the United States. | ||
| 1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded | ||
| 1919 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president (1901-1909), died. An expansionist politician, he acquired the Panama Canal Zone (1903); he also made an unsuccessful run for president in 1912. | ||
| 1927 US marines sent to Nicaragua | ||
| 1928 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene) | ||
| 1929 King Alexander of Yugoslavia abolished the constitution, dissolved the government and established a royal dictatorship. | ||
| 1930 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed | ||
| 1938 Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx | ||
| 1941 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt addressed Congress, offering support for all who strove for four essential freedoms -- freedom of speech and religion and freedom from want and fear. | ||
| 1950 Britain formally recognized China's Communist government. | ||
| 1967 Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140 | ||
| 1969 President Charles de Gaulle imposed a total ban on French arms supplies to Israel. | ||
| 1978 1st postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp) | ||
| 1978 US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary | ||
| 1980 Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India | ||
| 1981 Gaston Thorn succeeded Roy Jenkins as president of the European Commission. | ||
| 1986 British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns | ||
| 1986 Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg | ||
| 1990 Poland's Communist Party leaders gave the green light to its dissolution and replacement by a non-Marxist party. | ||
| 1991 Jorge Serrano El¡as elected president of Guatemala | ||
| 1992 President Zviad Gamsakhurdia fled Georgia after a bloody two-week power struggle, leaving his parliament burning and in the hands of jubilant rebel gunmen. | ||
| 1993 Dizzy Gillespie, U.S. jazz trumpeter, died. He was one of the founding fathers of the 1940s revolutionary be-bop style and influenced generations of musicians. | ||
| 1994 Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88 | ||
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