Today in History
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Alexander Hamilton
William Butler Yeats
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| 323 BC, Alexander III the Great, king of Macedonia and one of history's greatest military leaders, died in Babylon, now Iraq. | ||
| 823 Charles II the Bald, king of what is now France from 843-877 was born. | ||
| 1325 Sheik Ibn Battuta begins 1st world trip, Tangiers to Mecca | ||
| 1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed in London | ||
| 1381 The Peasants' Revolt, a popular uprising led by Wat Tyler and sparked by the implementation of a poll tax, began in Britain. |
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| 1392 Assassination attempt on Pierre de Craon Van Clisson of France, fails | ||
| 1547 King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Turkish sultan Suleiman | ||
| 1611 John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication | ||
| 1625 English king Charles I marries French princess Henriette | ||
| 1633 Charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore | ||
| 1655 Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh is 1st actress in Amsterdam theater | ||
| 1665 Sea battle at Lowestoft: English fleet beats Dutch | ||
| 1707 Hungary declares itself independent under Ferenc R k¢czi II | ||
| 1721 England signs Treaty of Madrid | Alexander Hamilton |
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| 1727 Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris | ||
| 1753 Austria, England & Modena sign secret military treaty | ||
| 1774 Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves | ||
| 1789 Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington | ||
| 1792 King Louis XVI fires French government | ||
| 1798 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California | ||
| 1825 Walter Hunt patents safety pin | ||
| 1828 Simon Bol¡var proclaimed dictator | ||
| 1865 Pres Johnson proclaims reconstruction confederate states |
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| 1865 William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, was born. He won the Nobel Literature Prize in 1923. | ||
| 1871 Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador | ||
| 1878 Congress of Berlin meets to divide African colonization | ||
| 1893 The first women's golf tournament was held at Royal Lytham, England. | ||
| 1897 Paavo Nurmi, Finnish long-distance runner who dominated the sport in the 1920s with nine Olympic gold medals, was born. | ||
| 1898 The Yukon was separated from the Northwest Territories in Canada and given separate territorial status. | ||
| 1899 Carlos Chavez, Mexican composer and conductor, was born. | ||
| 1900 The Boxer Rebellion began in China. The secret society was dedicated to ending the domination and exploitation of the country by foreigners. | William Butler Yeats |
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| 1910 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Philadelphia | ||
| 1911 Petrushka, one of the earliest works of Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, was first performed in Paris. | ||
| 1912 Capt Albert Berry made the 1st parachute jump from an airplane | ||
| 1917 14 German Gotha bombers carried out the first large-scale bombing raid by planes on London, killing 162. The only previous aerial bombs were dropped by zeppelins. | ||
| 1930 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece | ||
| 1932 Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta | ||
| 1932 Great Britain & France sign peace treaty | ||
| 1933 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY) | ||
| 1933 German Secret State Police (Gestapo) established | ||
| 1938 Jews injured & property destroyed in Przemyal Poland | ||
| 1940 Paris evacuates before German advance | ||
| 1942 Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island | ||
| 1944 German counter attack on Villers-Bocage Normandy | ||
| 1944 The first of Germany's V-1 flying bombs was unleashed on southern England. | ||
| 1946 King Umberto II of Italy abdicates | |
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| 1950 South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act" | ||
| 1953 The Colombian government of Laureano Gomez was overthrown in a coup led by Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. | ||
| 1955 Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France | ||
| 1956 After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control | ||
| 1956 Real Madrid wins 1st Europe Cup | ||
| 1957 Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth Mass | ||
| 1964 Nelson Mandela, now president of South Africa, arrived on Robben Island to begin his life sentence, imposed the previous day. | ||
| 1967 U.S. Attorney General Thurgood Marshall was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, becoming the first black to sit on the Supreme Court bench. | ||
| 1971 Geraldine Brodrick gave birth to nine babies in Australia, one of the few recorded instances of nonuplets. | Mayflower II | |
| 1977 Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured | ||
| 1981 Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II | ||
| 1982 Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69 | ||
| 1983 The U.S. spacecraft Pioneer 10 crossed the orbit of Neptune and became the first man-made object to leave the solar system. | ||
| 1986 Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency | ||
| 1990 Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya | ||
| 1990 East Germany began the final demolition of the Berlin Wall, knocking out concrete slabs all over the city to reopen streets sealed off since the Cold War barrier was built in 1961. | ||
| 1993 Rockets fired by Serb forces killed more than 50 people in a makeshift hospital in the besieged Muslim enclave of Gorazde in eastern Bosnia. | ||
| 1996 Copper prices tumbled around the world after Sumitomo Corp. said it had lost an estimated $2.6 billion over 10 years from unauthorized copper trades. The trader responsible was sentenced to eight years in jail in March 1998. | ||
| 1996 The longest siege in U.S. federal history -- 81 days -- ended when 16 anti-government Freemen surrendered in Montana. | ||
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