Today in History
20th March
Willem de Vlamingh
Willem Frederik
Harriet
Beecher Stowe's
"Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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| 1345 Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought "cause of plague epidemic" | ||
| 1413 England's King Henry IV died; he was succeeded by Henry V | ||
| 1525 Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants | ||
| 1598 French king Henri IV & duke van Mercour sign treaty |
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| 1602 United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms | ||
| 1616 Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana | ||
| 1627 France & Spain signs accord for fighting protestantism | ||
| 1680 Baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater) was born | ||
| 1697 Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land" | ||
| 1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings | ||
| 1800 French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, & advance to Cairo | ||
| 1811 Napoleon FKJ Bonaparte II, Napoleon's son/King of Rome was born | ||
| 1814 Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands | ||
| 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule. | ||
| 1816 The Supreme Court affirmed its right to review state court decisions. | ||
| 1833 US & Siam sign commercial treaty | ||
| 1848 King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez | Willem de Vlamingh |
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| 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston) | ||
| 1856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management was born | ||
| 1863 Battle of Pensacola FL -evacuated by Federals | ||
| 1868 Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville Kentucky of $14,000 | ||
| 1868 Obe Postma, Frisian poet/geography/historian (Frisian Clay Farm) was born | ||
| 1883 Unity treaty of Paris signed: protects industrial property | ||
| 1885 John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine | ||
| 1885 Yiddish theater opens in NY with Golldfaden operetta | ||
| 1890 German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck | ||
| 1896 U.S. Marines landed in Nicaragua to protect U.S. citizens in the wake of a revolution. | ||
| 1896 Uprising in Matabeleland | ||
| 1897 France signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia | ||
| 1906 Pavel P Parenago, Russian astronomer was born | ||
| 1916 Allies attack Zeebrugge Belgium | ||
| 1920 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (1« months) | ||
| 1920 Douglas G Chapman, biomathematical statistician was born | ||
| 1922 USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier |
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| 1923 Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA | ||
| 1923 Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent | ||
| 1924 Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn | ||
| 1931 Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin | ||
| 1933 Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed | ||
| 1934 Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany | ||
| 1937 Franco-offensive at Guadalajara Spain | ||
| 1939 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania | ||
| 1941 Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn | ||
| 1942 Major German assault on Malta | ||
| 1943 British offensive against Mareth-line | Willem Frederik |
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| 1943 German U-384 bombed & sinks | ||
| 1944 Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River NJ, killing 16 | ||
| 1944 Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes | ||
| 1945 US 70th Infantry division/7th Armour division attack Saar | ||
| 1946 Belgian govt of Spaak, resigns | ||
| 1947 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic | ||
| 1951 Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java | ||
| 1952 Final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan | ||
| 1952 US senate ratifies peace treaty with Japan | ||
| 1956 156-day strike against Westinghouse ends | ||
| 1956 Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR) explodes | ||
| 1956 Tunisia gains independence from France | ||
| 1957 Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it | ||
| 1963 Sikkim crown prince Paldan Thondup Namgyal marries Hope Cooke | ||
| 1968 Military intervent in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign) | ||
| 1969 Abebe Bikila's auto-accident, near Addis Ababa | ||
| 1969 US president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970 | ||
| 1972 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche | ||
| 1972 S Mansholt succeeds Malfatti as chairman of European Committee |
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| 1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was convicted of armed robbery for her part in a San Francisco bank holdup. | ||
| 1977 Communists/socialists win French municipal elections | ||
| 1977 Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India | ||
| 1980 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran | ||
| 1981 Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron sentenced to 8 years | ||
| 1982 Rev A Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa | ||
| 1986 Jacques Chirac forms French government | ||
| 1987 The Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of AZT, a drug shown to prolong the lives of some AIDS patients. | ||
| 1989 Richard J Kerr replaces Robert M Gates as deputy director of CIA | ||
| 1990 Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident | ||
| 1993 IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England | ||
| 1993 Russian President Boris Yeltsin declared emergency rule, setting a referendum on whether the people trusted him or the hard-line Congress to govern. | ||
| 1994 Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa | ||
| 1995 In Tokyo, 12 people were killed, and more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin leaked on five separate subway trains. | ||
| 1996 Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents | ||
| 1997 President Clinton and Boris Yeltsin opened talks in Helsinki, Finland, on the issue of NATO expansion. | ||
| 1997 Liggett Group, the maker of Chesterfield cigarettes, settled 22 state lawsuits by agreeing to warn on every pack that smoking is addictive and admitting the industry markets cigarettes to teen-agers. | Harriet
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