Today in History
7 March
Alessndro Manzoni
Francesco Hayez
(Venice 1791 - Milan 1882). Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni. OIl on canvas, 118x92. In Brera since 1900
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| 1080 Pope Gregory VII deposed Henry IV as King of Germany over the investiture of bishops and appointed Rudolf of Swabia. | ||
| 1138 Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king | ||
| 1543 Johan Casimir, count of Rhine (occupied Gent) was born | ||
| 1530 King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then, declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church |
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| 1560 Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, N Africa | ||
| 1573 Turkey & Venice signs peace treaty | ||
| 1621 John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies | ||
| 1633 Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg | ||
| 1682 Johan W van Ripperda, Dutch diplomat/baron/duke was born | Jenny Lind | |
| 1696 English king Willem III departs Netherlands | ||
| 1774 British close port of Boston to all commerce | ||
| 1778 Capt James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay | ||
| 1785 Alessandro Manzoni, Italy, poet/novelist (Betrothed) was born | ||
| 1793 The ruling Convention in France declared war on Spain during the Revolution. | ||
| 1808 Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro | ||
| 1809 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, French adventurer, died. With John Jeffries, he was the first man to cross the English channel by balloon. Also inventor of the parachute, he died in Paris shortly after falling from his balloon at The Hague. | ||
| 1814 Napoleon with a force of 37,000 defeated 90,000 Prussians under Bluecher at the Battle of Craonne in France. | ||
| 1821 The Austrians with a force of 80,000, trying to restore Ferdinand IV to the throne in Naples, heavily defeated a force of 12,000 Neapolitans under Pepe at the Battle of Rieti. | ||
| 1835 HMS Beagle returns from Concepcion to Valparaiso | ||
| 1838 Jenny Lind, famed operatic soprano, known as the "Swedish Nightingale," made her debut in Weber's opera "Der Freischuetz." | ||
| 1847 US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico | ||
| 1848 In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed |
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| 1850 Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850 | ||
| 1851 Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends | ||
| 1852 Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law | ||
| 1854 Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes | ||
| 1876 Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his invention of the telephone. | ||
| 1876 Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians | ||
| 1900 Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees | ||
| 1902 Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal | ||
| 1906 Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor | ||
| 1911 US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border | ||
| 1911 Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, CA, patents coin-operated locker | Alessndro Manzoni |
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| 1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole | Francesco Hayez (Venice 1791 - Milan 1882). Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni. OIl on canvas, 118x92. In Brera since 1900 |
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| 1914 Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania | ||
| 1917 The world's first jazz record, "The Dixie Jazz Band One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca's Original Dixieland Jazz Band, was released by RCA Victor in Camden, New Jersey. | ||
| 1918 Pres Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal | ||
| 1918 The Bolsheviks changed their name to the Russian Communist Party. | ||
| 1921 Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt | ||
| 1925 American Negro Congress organizes | ||
| 1927 Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan | ||
| 1932 French Prime Minister Aristide Briand, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926, died. | ||
| 1935 Saar incorporated into Germany | ||
| 1936 Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by re-occupying the demilitarized zone of Rhineland. | ||
| 1937 Bucharin, Jagoda & Rykov pushed out of CPSU in USSR | ||
| 1939 Glamour magazine begins publishing | ||
| 1941 British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) | ||
| 1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta | ||
| 1942 In World War II, the British evacuated Rangoon, having completed all essential demolition. The Japanese entered the city the next day. |
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| 1942 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee | ||
| 1943 Gen-major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia | ||
| 1944 Japans begins offensive in Burma | ||
| 1945 The U.S. 9th Armored Division captured and crossed the key bridge over the Rhine at Remagen in Germany, which helped shorten World War II. | ||
| 1945 Cologne taken by allied armies | ||
| 1945 Yugoslavia govt of Tito forms | ||
| 1951 Iranian Prime Minister Ali Razmara was assassinated by a religious fanatic in a mosque in Tehran. | ||
| 1959 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow) | ||
| 1965 Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma | ||
| 1965 West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard said West Germany would seek to establish diplomatic relations with Israel. | ||
| 1965 Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile | ||
| 1969 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR | ||
| 1971 Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire | ||
| 1973 Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh | ||
| 1973 The government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman won a landslide victory in Bangladesh's first general election. | ||
| 1974 "Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras NC | ||
| 1974 1st general striking in Ethiopia | ||
| 1975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate | ||
| 1976 Morocco & Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria | ||
| 1977 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections | ||
| 1977 Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter | ||
| 1978 Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped | ||
| 1978 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb | ||
| 1981 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death | ||
| 1986 South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant & Limburg ends | ||
| 1989 Iran broke off diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's novel, "Satanic Verses." | ||
| 1989 Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland) | ||
| 1990 3 passengers killed & 162 injured as subway train derails (Phila) | ||
| 1991 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait | ||
| 1992 Former Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze returned to his native Georgia. | ||
| 1993 Afghanistan's rival leaders signed a peace accord to end months of bloody fighting in Kabul that had left thousands dead. | ||
| 1993 23rd Easter Seal Telethon raises | ||
| 1994 Charles Taylor resigns as pres of Liberia | ||
| 1994 Poland said it would join Hungary in applying for membership of the European Union. | ||
| 1994 ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejected a demand by white right-wingers for a separate homeland in South Africa, saying it would never happen in his lifetime. | ||
| 1995 French polar explorer Paul-Emile Victor, who over a 53-year span covered 312,000 miles (500,000 km) on Antarctica, died. | ||
| 1996 three U.S. servicemen were jailed in Japan for up to seven years for the abduction and rape of an Okinawa schoolgirl a year earlier. |
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