Today in History
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| 1526 Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal | ||
| 1528 Balthasar Hubmaier, one of the foremost leaders of the Austrian Anabaptists, was burned at the stake as a heretic in Vienna. | ||
| 1535 Bishop Tom s de Berlanga discovers Gal pagos Islands | ||
| 1578 Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir œ 20,000 to aid Dutch rebellion | ||
| 1624 England declares war on Spain | ||
| 1629 King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later | ||
| 1661 French King Louis XIV ends office of premier | ||
| 1681 English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania | ||
| 1734 Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples | ||
| 1791 John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver | ||
| 1791 Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy | ||
| 1847 1st money minted in Hawaii | ||
| 1862 Great Britain & France recognizes independence of Zanzibar | ||
| 1862 the first paper money of the U.S. government was issued. | ||
| 1863 Prince Albert Edward (later King Edward VII) of England married Princess Alexandra of Denmark. | ||
| 1876 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson) | ||
| 1880 General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria | ||
| 1893 The French colonies of French Guinea and Ivory Coast were formally established. | ||
| 1896 Bronx acquires O'Brien Square | ||
| 1900 Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army) | ||
| 1902 Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri | ||
| 1905 Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang) | ||
| 1906 Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France | ||
| 1906 London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line) | ||
| 1910 China ends slavery | ||
| 1910 Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing | ||
| 1912 Yuan Shi-kai was installed as the provisional president of the Republic of China. | ||
| 1914 Suffragette Mary Richardson slashed Velazquez's "Rokeby Venus" at London's National Gallery as a protest against the British government's treatment of Emmeline Pankhurst. | ||
| 1915 The Battle of Neuve-Chapelle, an unsuccessful British offensive on the Western Front, began during World War I. | ||
| 1922 Mahatma Gandhi was arrested by the British governors of India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years imprisonment. | ||
| 1926 Run on Belgian banks | ||
| 1927 Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian & Slovenes | ||
| 1927 Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches | ||
| 1931 British Labour party removes fascist sir Oswald Mosley | ||
| 1933 Major earthquake in Long Beach, Calif | ||
| 1939 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India | ||
| 1945 Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine | ||
| 1945 Japan declares Vietnam Independence | ||
| 1945 300 U.S. B-29 bombers devastated Japan's capital in what became known as the Great Tokyo Air Raid in World War II. The firestorm they created killed 100,000 people. | ||
| 1945 US troops lands on Mindanao | ||
| 1946 Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil | ||
| 1948 Jan Masaryk, Czech statesman and foreign minister, apparently committed suicide by throwing himself from a window at his office in Prague. | ||
| 1951 FBI director J Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner | ||
| 1952 The government of Cuba was overthrown by former president Fulgencio Batista, who ruled as a dictator until 1959. | ||
| 1956 General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios | ||
| 1957 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy | ||
| 1959 Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet | ||
| 1960 USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing | ||
| 1964 US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany | ||
| 1965 Dutch Princess Margriet & Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged | ||
| 1966 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires | ||
| 1966 Anti-German protests marred the wedding of Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands to Claus von Amsberg, a West German diplomat, in Amsterdam. | ||
| 1966 North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley | ||
| 1968 Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington NZ (200 killed) | ||
| 1969 James Earl Ray was sentenced in Memphis, Tennessee, to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968. | ||
| 1972 1st black US political convention opens (Gary Indiana) | ||
| 1972 General Lon Nol becomes president & prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia | ||
| 1973 The Governor of Bermuda, Sir Richard Sharples, was assassinated in the grounds of Government House. | ||
| 1973 Morocco adopts constitution | ||
| 1974 Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election | ||
| 1975 Dog spectacles patented in England | ||
| 1977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO | ||
| 1978 Soyuz 28 returns to Earth | ||
| 1982 President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya | ||
| 1982 In South Africa, the trial opened of 43 mercenaries accused of hijacking an Air India plane after a foiled coup in the Seychelles in November 1981. | ||
| 1982 Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun | ||
| 1985 French socialists lose election | ||
| 1985 Russian leader Konstantin Chernenko died after only 13 months in office. | ||
| 1985 Ice Pairs Championship at Tokyo won by Elena Valova & O Vasiliev (URS) | ||
| 1987 Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer | ||
| 1990 Haitian President Prosper Avril resigned 18 months after seizing power in a coup. | ||
| 1990 An Iraqi court condemned British journalist Farzad Bazoft to death for espionage. He was executed on the 15th. | ||
| 1990 American Jennifer Capriati, at 13 years and 11 months, became the youngest player ever to reach the final of a professional tennis tournament, an event in Florida. | ||
| 1992 NATO and its former Soviet enemies pledged that a treaty slashing conventional forces in Europe would be put into effect within four months. | ||
| 1993 President Suharto of Indonesia was re-elected for a sixth five-year term of office. | ||
| 1995 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shite mosque, 17+ killed | ||
| 1995 The EU responded angrily to Canada's seizure of a Spanish fishing boat in international waters, demanding its release and calling for retaliatory measures | ||
| 1996 Five Latin American presidents approved the creation of an Andean Community economic bloc to replace the Andean Pact trade group. | ||
| 1997 A jobless journalist hijacked a Taiwanese airliner to China to request asylum -- the first defection from Taiwan to China since 1986. | ||
| 1998 4th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards | ||
C.H. OSTFELD