Today in History
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| 1409 Austrian civil war ends | ||
| 1431 Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV | ||
| 1500 Reginald Pole, English Cardinal/"heretic" was born | ||
| 1627 Piet Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador Brazil | ||
| 1634 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole) | ||
| 1638 Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden | ||
| 1703 Robert Hooke, English scientist, died. A contributor to astronomy, chemistry and biology, he also discovered the law of elasticity, known as Hooke's law. | ||
| 1707 Aurangzeb, Mughal emperor of India, died. Emperor from 1659, he alienated the Hindus thus undermining the empire. | ||
| 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness | ||
| 1776 US commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas | ||
| 1791 Congress establishes US Mint | ||
| 1791 In the United States, the first Internal Revenue Act was passed by Congress. It established one revenue district per state and placed a tax on drink. | ||
| 1792 Robert Adam, Scottish architect and interior designer, died. One of the greatest neoclassical architects, he was much influenced by a visit to Rome. | ||
| 1804 Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian painter and engraver, died. | ||
| 1811 Vissarion Belinsky, Sveaborg Finland, Russian author (Literary Review) was born | ||
| 1815 Following piracy in the Mediterranean, the United States declared war on the Bey of Algiers. After the American threat to bomb Algiers, hostilities ended swiftly in August 1815. | ||
| 1817 Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi | ||
| 1837 US president Andrew Jackson & Congress recognizes Republic of Texas | ||
| 1845 Florida became the 27th state of the Union. | ||
| 1845 For the first time, the U.S. Senate overrode a presidential veto; the bill in question dealt with revenue cutters and steamers. | ||
| 1847 U.S. Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps | ||
| 1847 Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was born in Scotland. | ||
| 1849 Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin | ||
| 1853 Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter was born | ||
| 1861 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom | ||
| 1862 General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid | ||
| 1863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences | ||
| 1863 Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City, Nevada | ||
| 1863 Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia | ||
| 1863 Idaho Territory forms | ||
| 1875 The first performance of French composer George Bizet's opera "Carmen" took place at the Opera Comique, Paris. | ||
| 1877 Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor was born | ||
| 1878 The peace treaty at San Stefano was signed, ending the Russo-Turkish War and gaining independence for Serbia. | ||
| 1879 Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first woman lawyer to be admitted to appear before the Supreme Court of the United States. | ||
| 1882 Floris H L Prims, Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp was born | ||
| 1883 Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy | ||
| 1885 American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates | ||
| 1885 Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed govt) | ||
| 1886 The Treaty of Bucharest was signed, bringing peace between Bulgaria and Serbia. | ||
| 1891 Congress creates Office of Support of Immigration (Treasury Dept) | ||
| 1891 Congress creates US Courts of Appeal | ||
| 1894 4th & last British government of Gladstone resigns | ||
| 1899 George Dewey becomes 1st in US with rank of Admiral of the Navy | ||
| 1900 US Steel Corporation organizes | ||
| 1905 US Forest Service forms | ||
| 1906 Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France | ||
| 1911 Jean Harlow, American film actress, born; she was nicknamed the "Platinum Blonde" after appearing in a film of the same name. | ||
| 1915 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created | ||
| 1917 Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar | ||
| 1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates | ||
| 1918 Germany and its allies signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Russia, ending hostilities between them in World War I. | ||
| 1922 Italian fascists occupy Fiume & Rijeka | ||
| 1924 German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed | ||
| 1924 Mustafa Kemal continued his reforms to modernize Turkey, abolishing the Caliphate and expelling the Caliph and his family from the country. | ||
| 1931 The "Star-Spangled Banner," originally the "Defense of Fort McHenry," was adopted as the American national anthem. | ||
| 1933 Mount Rushmore dedicated | ||
| 1943 Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die | ||
| 1943 US defeats Japan & wins Battle of Bismark Sea | ||
| 1945 RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511 | ||
| 1945 US & Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor | ||
| 1952 Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution | ||
| 1953 Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed | ||
| 1956 Indonesian governament of Harahap resigns | ||
| 1956 Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne) | ||
| 1958 Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq | ||
| 1959 British governament arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis | ||
| 1959 Lou Costello (Louis Francis Cristillo), U.S. actor, comedian and partner of Bud Abbott, died. | ||
| 1961 King Hassan II's ascends to throne of Morocco | ||
| 1962 British Antarctic Territory forms | ||
| 1963 A new constitution was approved in Senegal under which the president took over the powers of the prime minister. | ||
| 1965 Seretse Khama became the first premier of Bechuanaland. | ||
| 1967 Grenada gains partial independence from Britain | ||
| 1968 Greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague | ||
| 1969 The three-man Apollo 9 spacecraft was launched from Cape Kennedy; the main aim of its 10-day flight was to test the lunar module in Earth's orbit. | ||
| 1971 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa | ||
| 1974 World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die) | ||
| 1976 Mozambique closed its border with Rhodesia and put its country on a war footing after cross-border raids by Rhodesia on rebel bases. | ||
| 1977 Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms | ||
| 1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike | ||
| 1988 In Britain, the Social Democrats and Liberals launched their new joint political party -- the Social and Liberal Democrats. | ||
| 1991 25 die as United Boeing 737 crashes in Colorado Springs | ||
| 1991 Iraqi generals & Gen Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire | ||
| 1991 Large majorities in Latvia and Estonia voted for independence from the Soviet Union. | ||
| 1991 Sao Tome and Principe elected former dissident Miguel Trovoada as president. | ||
| 1992 Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die | ||
| 1995 Camilla Parker Bowles & her husband Andrew divorce | ||
| 1996 Spain's conservative Popular Party claimed victory in general elections to end 13 years of Socialist rule under Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez. | ||
| 1996 Author Marguerite Duras, whose extraordinary life inspired a string of successful novels and films, died; among her best known works was the 1959 screenplay for "Hiroshima Mon Amour." | ||
| 1998 Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee | ||
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