Today in History
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| 891 Arnulf defeated the Vikings from Scandinavia at the battle of Louvain in Belgium | ||
| 1067 Boudouin VI becomes earl of Flanders | ||
| 1181 Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope Lucius III | ||
| 1267 Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem | ||
| 1482 Krim-Tataren plunders Kiev | ||
| 1494 Charles VIII of France invaded Italy in an attempt to claim the throne of Naples. | ||
| 1511 Council to Pisa opens | ||
| 1535 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal) | ||
| 1547 Charles demands creation of Imperial League (German state) | ||
| 1598 Spanish king Philip II receives sacraments | ||
| 1609 Pieter Both sworn in as 1st gov-gen of East Indies | ||
| 1614 Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany | ||
| 1632 Battle at Castelnaudary: Henri de Montmorency's rebellion army loses | ||
| 1647 French cardinal Mazarin & duke of Modena sign treaty against Milan | ||
| 1661 1st Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James | ||
| 1689 Russia began taxing men's beards | ||
| 1695 Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names | ||
| 1730 Benjamin Franklin marries Miss Read | ||
| 1739 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal | ||
| 1752 Liberty Bell arrives in Phila | ||
| 1785 Mozart publishes 6 string quartet opus 10 in Vienna | ||
| 1798 England signs treaty with nizam of Hyderabad, India | ||
| 1799 Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan) | ||
| 1807 Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire | ||
| 1831 Charles Darwin travels aboard HMS Beagle | ||
| 1836 Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem | ||
| 1858 1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month | ||
| 1858 The East India Company's government of India ended with the British crown taking over its territories and duties. | ||
| 1864 In the American Civil War, the Confederates under Gen. John Hood abandoned the city of Atlanta. It was occupied by Gen. Sherman the next day and soon set ablaze. | ||
| 1864 The Charlottetown Conference began on Prince Edward Island, representing the first steps toward Canadian confederation. | ||
| 1870 In the Franco-Prussian War, the French under Napoleon III were heavily defeated by the Prussians under Moltke at the battle of Sedan. This defeat opened the path to Paris. | ||
| 1878 Emma Nutt became the first woman telephone operator when she went to work for Edwin Holmes and his Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston, Massachusetts. | ||
| 1887 Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established | ||
| 1888 Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens | ||
| 1901 Construction begins on NY Stock Exchange | ||
| 1906 British New Guinea becomes Australian Papua New Guinea | ||
| 1914 St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd | ||
| 1914 Von Glucks army meets up with British expeditionary army | ||
| 1916 Bulgaria declared war on Romania in World War I. | ||
| 1918 US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920 | ||
| 1920 France creates Lebanon | ||
| 1920 New townhall of Rotterdam opens | ||
| 1923 A magnitude-7.9 earthquake struck Japan and completely destroyed Yokahama and nearly destroyed Tokyo. At least 142,000 people were killed and 2.5 million made homeless. | ||
| 1924 Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake | ||
| 1926 Turkey allows civil marriage | ||
| 1928 Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king | ||
| 1937 Battle of Gijon in Spain begins | ||
| 1938 Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews | ||
| 1939 Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill | ||
| 1939 Switzerland proclaims neutrality | ||
| 1939 Germany invaded Poland, heralding the start of World War II. Norway, Finland and Switzerland declared their neutrality, and Italy said it was non-belligerent. | ||
| 1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star | ||
| 1942 Fed judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans | ||
| 1942 German troops land on Taman peninsula | ||
| 1944 Bulgaria govt of Bagrjanow, resigns | ||
| 1944 King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal | ||
| 1945 Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan) | ||
| 1946 Greeks voted to recall Kin George II to the throne. He had been living in exile in England. | ||
| 1948 Communist form North China People's Republic | ||
| 1948 UN's World Health Organization forms | ||
| 1950 West Berlin granted a constitution | ||
| 1951 PM Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad | ||
| 1951 US, Australia & New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty | ||
| 1953 Jacques Thibaud, French violinist, died in an air crash. Famed for his technique, he was a member of the famous trio with Alfred Cortot and Pablo Casals. | ||
| 1954 Hurricane Carol strikes Long Island/New England, kills 68 | ||
| 1955 2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel | ||
| 1956 Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory | ||
| 1957 Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400 | ||
| 1961 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade | ||
| 1962 An earthquake struck northwestern Iran, killing 12,000 people and destroying more than 300 villages. | ||
| 1965 India & Pakistan border fights | ||
| 1967 An Arab summit lifted the oil embargo on Western states imposed during the Six-Day war. | ||
| 1968 Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed | ||
| 1969 Military officers overthrew the Libyan government, and Col. Moammar Gadhafi came to power. | ||
| 1970 Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian king Hussain | ||
| 1970 Jos‚ Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador | ||
| 1971 Qatar declares independence from Britain | ||
| 1972 Egypt & Libya form federation | ||
| 1973 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark) | ||
| 1974 Train accident at Zagreb Yugoslavia, 121 killed | ||
| 1975 All political parties forbidden in Bangladesh | ||
| 1975 Gunsmoke resigns the air | ||
| 1977 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold | ||
| 1979 Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings | ||
| 1980 Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv | ||
| 1981 A bloodless coup ousted President David Dacko of the Central African Republic. | ||
| 1982 Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon | ||
| 1983 A Soviet fighter plane shot down a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747, KAL Flight 007, near Sakhalin island, killing all 269 on board. | ||
| 1985 US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland | ||
| 1989 Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their separation | ||
| 1990 Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union signed the first agreement between Comecon countries to conduct their trade in convertible currencies and use world prices. | ||
| 1991 Richard J Kerr, serves as acting director of CIA | ||
| 1995 NYC reinstates the death penalty | ||
| 1995 Chief warlord Charles Taylor and other key militia leaders were installed in a new ruling council in Liberia. | ||
| 1997 In France, the prosecutor's office said the driver of the car in which Princess Diana was killed, was over the legal alcohol limit. |