Today in History
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David Garrik - Richard III
Francisco Pizarro
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| St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope | ||
| 1284 Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away (actually happened) | ||
| 1409 Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V | |
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| 1483 Richard III of England began his rule, after deposing his nephew Edward V. Edward and his brother Richard were later murdered. | ||
| 1498 Toothbrush invented | ||
| 1553 Christ's Hospital in England granted a charter | ||
| 1541 Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, was assassinated in his palace in Lima. | ||
| 1582 Johannes Schultz, composer was born | ||
| 1630 Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde | ||
| 1714 Spain & Netherlands sign peace/trade agreement | ||
| 1721 Dr Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America | ||
| 1794 Battle of Colors: France under Jourdan beats Austrian army | ||
| 1794 The Austrians were defeated by the French at Fleurus, halting their conquest of Belgium. | David Garrik - Richard III |
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| 1807 Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die | ||
| 1843 Hong Kong was proclaimed a British crown colony with Sir Henry Pottinger as its first governor. | ||
| 1844 US president John Tyler marries Julia Gardiner in NYC | ||
| 1848 1st pure food law enacted in US | ||
| 1857 Cawnpore England massacre | ||
| 1858 The Treaty of Tientsin was signed, ending hostilities between China and Great Britain and granting the latter trade rights. |
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| 1862 Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulses Confederacy in Virginia | ||
| 1862 US Army of Virginia established under Gen John Pope | ||
| 1870 Wagner's opera "Valkyrie" premieres in Munich | ||
| 1879 Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt | ||
| 1894 Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto | ||
| 1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever | ||
| 1902 Order of Merit instituted by King Edward VII | ||
| 1906 the first grand prix motor race was held, over two days at Le Mans, France. | ||
| 1909 Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London | ||
| 1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph) | Francisco Pizarro |
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| 1912 Gustav Mahlers 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna | ||
| 1917 1st US Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I | ||
| 1919 NY Daily News begins publishing | ||
| 1924 After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave Dominican Republic | ||
| 1924 Ziegfeld Follies opens on Broadway | ||
| 1933 Claudio Abbado, Milan Italy, composer/conductor (London Symph-1982) was born | ||
| 1936 1st flight of Fw61 helicopter | ||
| 1945 The United Nations Charter was signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, succeeding the League of Nations | ||
| 1952 Nelson Mandela & 51 others infringe South Africa curfew | ||
| 1953 Russian vice-premier/interior minister Beria arrested |
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| 1955 Freedom Charter signed in South-Africa | ||
| 1958 Gaston Eyskens becomes premier of Belgium | ||
| 1959 The St. Lawrence Seaway, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean, was opened by Queen Elizabeth II and President Eisenhower. | ||
| 1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain | ||
| 1960 British Somaliland became independent and five days later merged with Italian Somaliland to become the Somali Republic. | ||
| 1960 The Indian Ocean island of Madagascar became independent from France as the Malagasy Republic. | ||
| 1965 Wallon party forms in Belgium | ||
| 1966 Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland | ||
| 1967 Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals | ||
| 1972 IRA proclaims resistant in North-Ireland | ||
| 1975 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency and arrested hundreds of political opponents. | ||
| 1976 A devastating earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck Indonesia's Irian Jaya province; estimates of the death toll varied from 400 to 9,000. | ||
| 1977 After 117 years of French rule, the East African state of Djibouti became independent | ||
| 1977 Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, last performance of his career | ||
| 1978 South Yemeni President Salim Rubai Ali was overthrown and executed. | ||
| 1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France | ||
| 1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched | ||
| 1988 An Airbus A320 crashed after making a low pass over an air show in eastern France, killing three. | ||
| 1989 Canada updates coins with a new potrait of the Queen | ||
| 1989 A Soviet nuclear submarine carrying atomic weapons was crippled off the coast of Norway when a pipe burst in its reactor | ||
| 1995 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak survived an assassination bid unscathed when gunmen sprayed bullets at his armored limousine in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. | ||
| 1996 Afghan guerrilla leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar returned to Kabul and took over as prime minister. | ||
| 1997 Supreme Court strikes down Internet indecency law | ||
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