Today in History
8 January
Brittany to keep duchy for the crown
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| 1081 Henry V, Roman German king/emperor was born | ||
| 1198 Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III | ||
| 1214 Earl Ferrand of Flanders drops ties with France | ||
| 1297 In Monaco, Franceschino Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, sneaked into the Genoese-controlled fortress, let in his own soldiers, and established the Grimaldi dynasty. | ||
| 1499
Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the crown |
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| 1558 French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais | ||
| 1583 Simon Episcopius, Dutch bishop/theologist was born | ||
| 1598 Genoa Italy expels Jews | ||
| 1642 Galileo Galilei, mathematician, astronomer, physicist and developer of the astronomical telescope, died. | ||
| 1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co) | ||
| 1713 Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer and violinist, died. His concerti grossi, published posthumously, greatly influenced J.S. Bach. | ||
| 1767 Abraham de Veer, Dutch governor-general of Suriname (1822-28) was born | ||
| 1798 The 11th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, modifying the power of the Supreme Court, was ratified. | ||
| 1800 Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi | ||
| 1800 Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France | ||
| 1806 Cape colony becomes English colony | ||
| 1806 Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon | ||
| 1811 Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes at German Coast | ||
| 1815 The Americans defeated the British in the battle of New Orleans. | ||
| 1823 Alfred Russel Wallace, British zoologist/co-discoverer (evolution) was born | ||
| 1825 Eli Whitney, U.S. inventor of the cotton gin, died. | ||
| 1830 Dutch King Willem I fires him displeasing parliament members | ||
| 1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established | ||
| 1836 Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter/husband of Laura Epps was born | ||
| 1838 1st telegraph message sent using dots & dashes (NJ) | ||
| 1838 Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out | ||
| 1842 Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft | ||
| 1848 Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia | ||
| 1853 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Wash | ||
| 1862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co) was born | ||
| 1870 US mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins | ||
| 1878 Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent & Henry Morton Stanley | ||
| 1889 1st Computer patented | ||
| 1889 Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a tabulating machine | ||
| 1891 Storm Jameson, English novelist (The Green Man, Cousin Honor) was born | ||
| 1894 Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire | ||
| 1900 Queen Marie, of Yugoslavia was born | ||
| 1904 Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen | ||
| 1917 Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy | ||
| 1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition) | ||
| 1918 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson presented his "14 Points" to Congress, a peace plan aimed at a new world order after World War One. | ||
| 1923 Typography strike in Amsterdam | ||
| 1926 Abdul Aziz ibn Saud became King of the Hejaz, which he announced would henceforth be called Saudi Arabia. | ||
| 1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies | ||
| 1930 Belgium Princess Marie-Jos‚ marries Italian's crown prince Umberto | ||
| 1935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy | ||
| 1935 U.S. singer Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. | ||
| 1940 Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar) | ||
| 1941 British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns | ||
| 1941 Robert Baden-Powell, English soldier and founder of the Boy Scouts, died; he won fame as the defender of Mafeking in the Boer War in South Africa and founded the Scouts in 1908. | ||
| 1944 Terry Brooks, US, sci-fi author (Sword of Shannara) was born | ||
| 1948 Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason | ||
| 1952 Jordan adopts constitution | ||
| 1956 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken | ||
| 1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana | ||
| 1959 Charles de Gaulle became first president of France's Fifth Republic; he took office for a second term on this day in 1966. | ||
| 1961 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters | ||
| 1962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Neth) | ||
| 1963 "Mona Lisa," on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art | ||
| 1963 Dmitri Shostakovitch' Katharina Ismailova, premieres in Riga | ||
| 1964 European Parliament accept Mansholt Plan | ||
| 1965 Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History | ||
| 1966 The Polish government imposed a foreign travel ban on the Catholic primate, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski. | ||
| 1967 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Cedar Falls, a major operation against Communist troops in the Mekong Delta. | ||
| 1971 Sir Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador in Uruguay, was kidnapped by Tupamaros guerrillas; he was held captive until September. | ||
| 1973 USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing | ||
| 1973 U.S. negotiator Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho resumed talks in Paris on ending the Vietnam War. | ||
| 1974 Loch Ness Monster photographed | ||
| 1976 Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles | ||
| 1976 Chou En-Lai, long-time Chinese Communist leader, died aged 78. | ||
| 1978 Israeli governament votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai | ||
| 1979 Argentina & Chile sign Beagle Canal accord | ||
| 1979 Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom Penh | ||
| 1979 The French tanker Betelgeuse exploded at the Gulf Oil terminal at Bantry in Ireland, killing 50 people. | ||
| 1982 Spain agreed to end its blockade of Gibraltar in return for talks on the British colony's future. | ||
| 1987 The Dow Jones industrial average topped the 2,000 mark for the first time. | ||
| 1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator | ||
| 1989 44 people were killed when a British Midland Boeing 737-400 airliner with 126 passengers and crew crashed on to the M1 motorway in central England. | ||
| 1991 Pan Am, one of the oldest U.S. airlines and a pioneer of transatlantic and Pacific routes, sought bankruptcy protection, a victim of federal deregulation. | ||
| 1992 Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina declared their own republic in protest at a decision by Bosnia's Croats and Muslims to seek EC recognition. | ||
| 1992 George Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap | ||
| 1993 Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale | ||
| 1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit | ||
| 1995 Guns fell silent across Sri Lanka's northeast region for the first time in four years at the start of a two-week truce between the government and Tamil separatist rebels. | ||
| 1995 Carlos Monzon, Argentina's greatest boxing champion, died in a car accident. | ||
| 1996 A Zairian cargo plane crashed into a crowded market in the center of the capital Kinshasa, killing 350 people. | ||
| 1996 Former French president Francois Mitterrand died of cancer at 79. | ||
| 1996 Karoly Grosz, Hungary's former communist leader who became known as the Hungarian Gorbachev for unleashing reforms which destroyed the system he believed in, died at 65. | ||
| 1998 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life | ||
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