Today in History
13 September
General Winfield
Arthur Henderson
Lewis Latimer
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| 1125 Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg crowned as German king Lotharius III | ||
| 1549 Pope Paul III signs Council of Bologna |
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| 1553 English Hugh Latimer arrested | ||
| 1556 Charles V & Maria of Hungary march into Spain | ||
| 1574 Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis | ||
| 1579 Breda forms Union of Utrecht | ||
| 1625 16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem | ||
| 1631 Admiral Tholen conquerors 30+ Spanish frigates | ||
| 1743 England, Austria & Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms | ||
| 1751 England signs Austrian & Russian alliance | ||
| 1759 British beat French forces at Plains of Abrahams (Quebec) | ||
| 1775 Gotthold Lessing's "Die Juden," premieres in Frankfurt-am-Main | ||
| 1787 Prussian army moves into Netherlands | ||
| 1788 NY City becomes 1st capital of US | General Winfield |
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| 1791 France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution | ||
| 1800 Curacao in English hands (until Jan 1803) | ||
| 1846 Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa) was born | ||
| 1847 American-Mexican war: US General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City | ||
| 1858 Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire & sinks, 471 die | ||
| 1863 Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker (Nobel 1934) was born | ||
| 1881 Lewis Latimer invents & patents electric lamp with a carbon filament | ||
| 1882 Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt | ||
| 1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland & Salisbury | ||
| 1898 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike | ||
| 1898 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film |
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| 1918 Train accident at Weesp Neth, kills 42 | ||
| 1931 Right-radical coup of Dr Pfrimer fails in Austria | ||
| 1939 Igor Sikorsky mass produces the 1st helicopter | ||
| 1940 Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs | ||
| 1940 Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt | ||
| 1942 Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal | ||
| 1942 German forces attack Stalingrad | ||
| 1943 Chiang Kai-shek became president of China | ||
| 1943 German counter attack at Salerno | ||
| 1943 Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected pres | Arthur Henderson |
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| 1944 30th Infantry division of US 1st Army frees Margraten | ||
| 1944 Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen | ||
| 1952 Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico | ||
| 1953 Nikita Khrushchev appointed 1st secretary-general of USSR |
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| 1964 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome | ||
| 1966 Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa | ||
| 1968 Albania leaves Warsaw pact | ||
| 1970 Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania | ||
| 1971 11 guards & 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison | ||
| 1971 Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow | ||
| 1978 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet | ||
| 1979 South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of S Afr) | ||
| 1982 50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain | ||
| 1983 US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle) | ||
| 1984 Simon Peres forms Israeli govt with Likoed | ||
| 1988 Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere | Lewis Latimer |
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| 1989 Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in S Africa | ||
| 1990 Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die | ||
| 1993 Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Peres & PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord | ||
| 1994 Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun | ||
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