Today in History
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Emperor Napoleon III
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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1260 Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus | |
| 1382 French Maillotin uprises against taxes | ||
| 1420 Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten | ||
| 1434 Jacoba of Bavaria marries Frank van Borselen | ||
| 1498 Vasco de Gama landed at what is now Mozambique, on his travels to India. | ||
| 1562 Catholics massacred over 1,000 Huguenots as they prayed at Vassy, France, starting the First War of Religion. | ||
| 1565 Spanish occupier Estacio de S founds Rio de Janeiro | ||
| 1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower | ||
| 1591 Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV | ||
| 1634 Battle at Smolensk: Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians | ||
| 1781 Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation | ||
| 1784 E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain |
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| 1785 Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized | ||
| 1790 1st US census authorized | ||
| 1792 Leopold II, reformist Holy Roman Emperor from 1790-92, died. | ||
| 1803 Ohio became the 17th state of the Union. | ||
| 1810 Sweden became the first country to appoint an Ombudsman, Lars August Mannerheim. | ||
| 1811 Egypt's ruler Mohammed Ali massacred the leaders of the Mameluke dynasty. | ||
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1811 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands | |
| 1815 Napoleon landed in France after returning from the island of Elba, where he had retired after being forced to abdicate in April 1814. | ||
| 1845 President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas | Emperor Napoleon III |
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| 1862 Prussia formally recognized the Kingdom of Italy. | ||
| 1867 Nebraska became the 37th state of the Union. | ||
| 1869 Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time | ||
| 1871 Napoleon III was deposed as emperor of France. | ||
| 1872 Yellowstone, the World's first National Park, was set up in the United States. | ||
| 1890 1st US edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published | ||
| 1893 Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the US rank of ambassador | ||
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1896 Italian forces were defeated by the Ethiopians at the Battle of Adowa, dealing a blow to Italian hopes of building an empire in Africa. | |
| 1904 Glenn Miller, American bandleader, born. He led a number of dance bands before World War II. While flying with the U.S. Air Force band in 1944, his plane disappeared and he was never seen again. | ||
| 1910 118 die. Worst snow slide in US history | ||
| 1912 Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane | ||
| 1914 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum | ||
| 1916 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic | ||
| 1919 The Samil Independence Movement began in Korea, demonstrating against Japanese rule. It was also known as the March First Movement and lasted a year. | ||
| 1920 Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Adm Horthy | ||
| 1921 Rwanda ceded to England | ||
| 1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia | ||
| 1923 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker | ||
| 1927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank | ||
| 1932 The 20-month-old son of American aviator Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped. He was found dead in May. | ||
| 1934 Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria | ||
| 1937 Gov Wouters innaugrates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles | ||
| 1941 German troops invade Bulgaria | ||
| 1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp | ||
| 1941 Bulgaria joined the Axis Powers and allowed German forces to enter the country. | ||
| 1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat | ||
| 1942 Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java | ||
| 1942 Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia | ||
| 1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided | ||
| 1944 Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns | ||
| 1945 British 43rd Division under Gen Essame occupies Xanten | ||
| 1945 Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi | ||
| 1945 Fieldmarshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander | ||
| 1946 British Governament takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years | ||
| 1946 Panam accepts its new constitution | ||
| 1947 International Monetary Fund begins operation | ||
| 1949 Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ | ||
| 1950 Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of the Nationalist Chinese government. | ||
| 1950 In Britain, Dr. Klaus Fuchs was convicted for giving British and American atomic secrets to the Soviet government. | ||
| 1950 USSR issues golden rubles | ||
| 1952 Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns | ||
| 1952 Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain | ||
| 1954 Rebellion during visit of pres Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die | ||
| 1954 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training | ||
| 1954 The United States announced it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test on the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. | ||
| 1955 Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48 | ||
| 1959 Archbishop Makarios returned to Cyprus from exile. | ||
| 1962 Uganda became a self-governing country | ||
| 1962 Pakistan announced a new constitution, setting up a presidential system of government. | ||
| 1963 200,000 French mine workers strike | ||
| 1965 Australia suspends champ swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-yrs for misconduct | ||
| 1965 Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec) | ||
| 1966 The Soviet spacecraft Venus III landed on Venus. It was the first spacecraft to land on another planet. | ||
| 1966 Ghana ordered all Soviet, East German and Chinese technicians to leave the country. | ||
| 1967 The government of Gen. Oscar Gestido, elected the previous November, took office in Uruguay. | ||
| 1967 Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London | ||
| 1968 Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting | ||
| 1968 Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect | ||
| 1970 Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election | ||
| 1970 White govt of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain | ||
| 1971 Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM | ||
| 1974 American Grand Jury issued indictments against President Richard Nixon's top aides, including John Ehrlichman, in the Watergate case. | ||
| 1978 Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery | ||
| 1981 Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike (he dies) | ||
| 1981 Irish Rep Army Bobby Sand begins hunger strike in Maze Prison | ||
| 1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data | ||
| 1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter | ||
| 1988 Soviet troops were sent into Azerbaijan after ethnic riots between Armenians and Azerbaijanis | ||
| 1988 Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran | ||
| 1988 Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile | ||
| 1990 Benin nullifies its constitution | ||
| 1992 King Fahd of Saudi Arabia unveiled major political reforms, ceding some powers after 10 years of disciplined rule. | ||
| 1992 Bosnian Muslims and Croats voted to secede from Yugoslavia | ||
| 1994 Israel released about 500 Arab prisoners in the hope it would placate Palestinian outrage over the Hebron massacre. | ||
| 1995 Belgium ends military conscript | ||
| 1995 Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay | ||
| 1996 Plans approved allowing traffic cameras High Harrington & Shap England | ||
| 1997 Albania's government resigned after the deadliest violence in two months of angry unrest. | ||