Today in History
9 October
Leif Ericson
Miguel de Cervantes
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| 1000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England) |
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| 1192 Richard Coeur de Leeuw leaves Jerusalem in disguise | ||
| 1290 Last of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves | ||
| 1446 Korean Hangual alphabet devised | ||
| 1514 King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII | ||
| 1547 Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (Don Quixote) was born | ||
| 1597 Earl Mauritius occupies Breevoort | ||
| 1617 Peace of Pavia (Spain & Savoye) | ||
| 1621 Turkey & Poland signs Peace of Chotin | ||
| 1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony | ||
| 1651 English parliament proclaims Navigation Act off | Leif Ericson |
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| 1655 Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow | ||
| 1701 The Collegiate School of Connecticut -- later Yale University -- was chartered in New Haven. | ||
| 1708 Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy | ||
| 1716 England & France sign treaty | ||
| 1740 Neth gov-general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia | ||
| 1760 Russian/Austrian army occupies Berlin | ||
| 1776 A group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco | ||
| 1794 French troops occupy Hertogenbosch | ||
| 1799 British frigate HMS Lutine sinks off Dutch coast | ||
| 1804 Hobart Tasmania founded | ||
| 1818 Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya | ||
| 1820 Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador | ||
| 1855 Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor |
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| 1870 Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree | ||
| 1874 World Postal Union forms in Bern Switzerland | ||
| 1888 Washington Monument opens for public admittance | ||
| 1899 1st British troops reaches Durban South Africa | ||
| 1899 South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum | ||
| 1914 German troops take Antwerp in World War I | ||
| 1915 Belgrade Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders | ||
| 1926 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution | ||
| 1930 Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field, New York, to Glendale, California. | ||
| 1936 The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles. | ||
| 1944 British PM Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin | ||
| 1944 German occupier turn off electricity in Amsterdam | Miguel de Cervantes |
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| 1945 British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal | ||
| 1947 1st telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane | ||
| 1953 British premier Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution | ||
| 1953 Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor | ||
| 1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia | ||
| 1958 Israeli navy inaugrates it's 1st submarine | ||
| 1959 1st phone call between auto & plane (Delaware) | ||
| 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton | ||
| 1961 Tanganyika becomes independent within British Commonwealth | ||
| 1961 Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic) | ||
| 1962 Battles to decide Algeria-Morocco boundary kills 130 | ||
| 1962 NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m | ||
| 1963 British premier Harold MacMillan, resigns | ||
| 1963 Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks' about 2,000 die | ||
| 1963 French air force gets 1st nuclear weapons | ||
| 1963 Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba & Haiti, kills 6,000 | ||
| 1963 Uganda becomes a republic within British Commonwealth | ||
| 1968 Government seizes oil fields in Peru | ||
| 1970 Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence | ||
| 1971 Japans emperor Hirohito visits Netherlands | ||
| 1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR | ||
| 1973 1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942 | ||
| 1973 Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal | ||
| 1975 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize | ||
| 1977 Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock | ||
| 1980 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz | ||
| 1983 4 South Korean govt ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma | ||
| 1990 Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile | ||
| 1997 Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico | ||
| 1997 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo | ||