Today in History
|
||
29 September |
||
| 1066 William the Conqueror invade England | ||
| 1187 Saladins army marches into Jerusalem | ||
| 1227 Pope Gregory IX excommunicate German emperor Frederik II | ||
| 1349 People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning wells | ||
| 1364 Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French at Brittany | ||
| 1521 Turkish troops occupy Belgrade | ||
| 1524 Emperor Charles V's troops give siege of Marseille | ||
| 1564 Robert Dudley becomes earl of Leicester | ||
| 1567 War of Religion - Huguenots try to kidnap king Charles IX | ||
| 1608 Captain Newport arrives from England with supplies for colonists | ||
| 1650 Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England) | ||
| 1678 France & Brandenburg signs peace treaty | ||
| 1789 US War Dept established a regular army | ||
| 1815 King Willem I forms Order of Dutch Lion | ||
| 1829 London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard) | ||
| 1853 Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348 | ||
| 1859 Great auroral display in US | ||
| 1863 Opera "Pescatori di Perle" is produced (Paris) | ||
| 1864 Battle of Waynesboro & New Market Heights VA | ||
| 1875 US-Spanish relations decline in wake of Cuban rebellion | ||
| 1898 French troops reach Guinea & Sudan, Samori caught | ||
| 1902 Impresario David Belasco opens his 1st Broadway theater | ||
| 1907 Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral | ||
| 1911 Gun magazine of French battleship Libert‚ explode | ||
| 1911 Italy declares war on Turkey | ||
| 1912 French/British troops lands on Samoa | ||
| 1915 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent | ||
| 1915 British army conquerors Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamia | ||
| 1915 Dutch Opera's 1st performance | ||
| 1922 Mussolini ask Vatican for support of fascist party program | ||
| 1923 Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public | ||
| 1924 Santo Domingo joins League of Nations | ||
| 1925 Greek republican constitution enforced | ||
| 1936 Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign | ||
| 1942 Govt of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich | ||
| 1943 Eisenhower & Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice | ||
| 1943 German riots at Amsterdam Jews | ||
| 1944 Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia | ||