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Today in History
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May
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862
Riurick (of Jutland) founded the first dynasty of Princes of Russia at Novgorod. |
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1138
Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) overthrows self for Innocentius II |
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1167
Frederick Barbarossa was decisively defeated by the combined cities of the Lombard League
at the Battle of Legnano |
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1176
Battle at Legnano: Lombardi League beats Frederik Barbarossa |
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1218
The Fifth Crusade landed outside Damietta, N Egypt. |
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1415
Council of Konstanz |
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1453
Mohammed II, founder of the Ottoman empire, captured Constantinople; the Byzantine emperor
Constantine XI was killed and the Greek Empire finally extinguished. Constantinople became
the Ottoman capital. |
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1453
French banker Jacques Coeurs possessions confiscated |
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1458
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, defeated a Castilian fleet in the Channel |
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1500
Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Diaz, who discovered the Cape of Good Hope, drowned during
a voyage. |
Robert
Blake |
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1506
Earl Willem I van Nassau-Dillenburg weds countess Walburg van Egmont |
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1576
Spanish army under Mondrag˘n conquerors Zierik sea |
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1627
Anne ML of Orleans, duchess of Montpensier (Grand Mademoiselle) was born |
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1630
Charles II, king of England from 1660, was born. On this day in 1660 he marched into
London and was restored to the throne 11 years after the execution of his father Charles
I. |
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1652
English Admiral Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under lt-adm Tromp |
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1660
Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth |
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1692
Battle at La Hogue: English & Dutch fleet beat France |
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1721
South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony |
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1727
Peter II Aleksei (11) becomes czar of Russia |
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1765
Patrick Henry, who was to become the first U.S. state governor, introduced seven
resolutions in the House of Burgesses in Virginia attacking the right of Britain to tax
the colonies by the Stamp Act. |
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1790
Rhode Island became the 13th state of the United States, the last of the original colonies
to ratify the constitution. |
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1848
Battle at Curtatone: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte |
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1848
Wisconsin became the 30th state of the United States. |
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1864
Mexican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz |
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1864
A H Borgesius, Dutch amateur astronomer was born |
Patrick Henry
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1874
Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect |
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1885
Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer (theory of relativity) was born |
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1902
Dutch State Mine law forms |
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1903
Bob Hope, [Leslie Townes], Kent England, entertainer (famous profile) was born |
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1911
Sir William Gilbert, English librettist who collaborated with composer Sir Arthur Sullivan
on many operettas, died of a heart attack after rescuing a woman from drowning. |
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1914
The British liner Empress of Ireland carrying 1,477 passengers and crew collided with the
Norwegian freighter Storstadt in the St Lawrence River in Canada. At least 1,012 people
died. |
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1914
Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence R; 1024 die |
"Are we at least
brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with
arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in our
possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress?
If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted
with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"
Patrick Henry, 3
Elliot Debates 168-169.
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1916
Official flag of president of US adopted |
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1916
US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924 |
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1917
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, future U.S. president, was born. He was president from January
1961 until his assassination on November 22, 1963. |
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1919
Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington |
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1922
Ecuador becomes independent |
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1935
Hague local museum opens |
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1935
Andr‚ P Brink, South African writer (Dry White Season) was born |
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1940
Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 sec) |
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1940
German forces captured Ostend and Ypres in Belgium and Lille in France. |
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1942
John Barrymore, U.S. stage and screen actor, died. He starred in films from 1913. In
"Rasputin and the Empress," he appeared with his sister Ethel and brother
Lionel. |
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1943
Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower) |
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1944
British troops occupy Aprilia Italy |
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1944
A German submarine sank the Block Island, a U.S. aircraft carrier, near Madeira. She was
the only U.S. carrier lost in the Atlantic in World War II. |
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1945
US 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa |
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1951
1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair |
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1952
2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles & Suriname ends |
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1953
New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepalese Sherpa, reached the summit of
Mount Everest, the first team to scale the world's tallest mountain. The feat was not
reported until June 1. |
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1954
Pope Pius X issues holy declaration |
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1955
Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns |
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1957
Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators |
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1957
Dodgers about the proposed move to the west coast |
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1957
Laos govt of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns |
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1959
Charles de Gaulle forms French govt |
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1967
Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who
later became Pope John Paul II |
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1968
The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution imposing mandatory sanctions on white-ruled
Rhodesia. |
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1969
Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice |
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1974
Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster |
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1974
The British government brought Northern Ireland under direct rule from Westminster one day
after the collapse of the Northern Ireland executive. A crippling general strike in the
province ended. |
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1979
Mary Pickford, U.S. silent movie star, died. She formed the film company United Artists
Corporation in 1919 along with Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin. |
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1979
Bishop Abel Muzorewa was sworn in as first black prime minister of "Zimbabwe
Rhodesia" as the country was briefly known prior to independence. |
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1982
1st papal visit to Britain since 1531 |
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1988
President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan |
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1989
Student protesters in China construct a replica of Statue of Liberty |
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1990
An earthquake hit Peru, killing 56 |
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1990
Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic |
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1993
Nazi's kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany |
Sir William Gilbert |
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1994
Great comet-iceball seen above North sea |
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1997
Span scientists announce new human species in 780,000 year old fossil |
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