Today in History
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3td of November 2000 |
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| 1394 Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI | ||
| 1493, Christopher
Columbus discovers island of Dominica 1470 Edward V, King of England (Apr 9-Jun 25 1483)was born 1527, Ferdinand of Austria/Bohemia chosen as king of Hungary 1529, London] 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament 1534, English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader 1604, Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22) was born 1620, Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony 1629, Prince Frederik Hendrik festival in The Hague 1640, English Long Parliament forms 1655, England & France sign miltary & economic treaties 1656, Treaty of Vilnius Russia/Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant [NS] 1676, Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed K" as Turkish grand vizier 1679, Great panic occurs in Europe over close approach of a comet 1716, Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Czar Peter the Great guarantees 1716, Saxon monarch August I's Polish kingdom 1752, Georg Friedrich H„ndel undergoes (failed) eye operation 1760, Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria 1762, England & Spain signs Treaty of Paris 1762, Spain acquires Louisiana 1783, Washington orders Continental Army disbanded 1791, Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St Clair/killed 637 soldiers 1794, French troops conquer Maastricht 1796, John Adams elected president 1801, Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (La Sonnambula, Norma) 1813, US troops under gen Coffee destroy indian village at Talladega Ala 1820, Cuenca Ecuador declares independence 1839, 1st opium war-2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks 1839, Palace of Galhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed 1848, Johan Thorbeckes revises Great Force 1862, Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teche, Louisiana 1862, Dr Richard Gatling patents machine gun (Indianapolis) 1863, Battle of Grand Coteau, GA 1867, Battle at Mentana: French/pontifical troops beat Garibaldi 1868, 1st black elected to Congress (John W Menard, Louisiana) 1868, Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D) 1871, Henry M Stanley in Tanganyka say "Dr Livingstone, I presume?" 1874, James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti 1883, Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed) 1883, US Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans 1885, Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses 1888, Amsterdam: 1st concerto of Concert worker, under Willem Kes 1888, In London, Jack the Ripper murdered his last victim 1896, J H Hunter patents portable weighing scales 1896, Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator 1896, William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president 1900, 1st US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC) 1903, Colombia grants Panama independence 1908, William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan 1916, Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar 1918, Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves 1918, Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I 1920, "Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Theater 1922, Greek parliament bans prince Andreas for life 1926, 15th party congress CPSU ends/5 year plan begins 1926, Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager 1927, 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record) 1927, Rodgers & Hart's musical "Connecticut Yankee," premieres in NYC 1927, Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt) 1928, Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet 1930, 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens 1930, Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America 1931, 1st commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured 1934, Although Lou Gehrig wins Triple Crown, Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP 1934, Dizzy Dean chosen as NL MVP 1935, George II returns to Greece & regains monarchy 1935, Kitei Son runs world record marathon (2:26:42) 1936, President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R) 1937, Archambaud bicycles world record time (45,796 km) 1937, NHL Howie Morenz Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 6-5 in Mont 1939, Clare Booth's "Margin for Error," premieres in NYC 1941, Hirohiti's accord on Yamamoto's attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails 1942, 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault 1942, Despite Ted Williams wins Triple Crown, Yanks Joe Gordon wins AL MVP 1942, Mort Cooper wins NL MVP 1942, William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago 1943, Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow 1943, P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North-Holland 1944, Allied commando's lands at Westkapelle Walcheren 1944, German troops in Vlissingen surrenders 1944, Pro-German government of Hungary flees 1944, US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald 1945, Lindsay Hassett scores 187 & 124* for Aust Services at Delhi 1946, Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution 1948, Chicago Tribune reports: "Dewey beats Truman" 1952, Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas 1952, Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel 1953, 1939 sacrifice fly rule restored: no time at bat for sac fly 1953, 1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (NYC) 1954, Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize 1954, Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born & Walter Bothe 1955, 1st virus crystallized (announced) 1955, Alabama woman bruised by a meteor 1955, Australia takes control of Cocos Islands 1957, USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit 1960, Ivory Coast adopts constitution 1968, Ex-premier Papandreou buried/300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta 1969, Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium 1970, Pres Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam 1970, Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile 1973, Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault) 1973, Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury 1978, Dominica gains independence from UK & adopts constitution 1978, USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty 1979, 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC 1979, 63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran) 1979, Marocco offensive against Polisario 1983, Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency (D) 1984, 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India 1984, Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated 1985, Argentine pres Alfonsˇns Radical Burgerunie wins elections 1986, Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Assn with US 1986, Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique 1986, Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran 1986, Northern Mariana Islands becomes a Commonwealth associated with US 1988, Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane 1988, Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill 1988, Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew 1989, 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights 1990, Gro Harlem Brundtland installed as premier of Norway 1992, Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over Pres Bush (R) 1994, Dutch & British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1 1994, Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), launches 1994, Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s) 1996, Mayumi Hirase wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup |
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