Today in History
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| 1087 Norman King William I, known as "William the Conqueror," died. He was also instigator of the Domesday book, the first exhaustive survey of England | ||
| 1492 Columbus' fleet sets sail west | ||
| 1513 Forces of James IV of Scotland battled English troops in Flodden near Branxton, in the English county of Northumberland. The Scots were heavily defeated and James IV was killed along with all his nobles. | ||
| 1556 Pope Paul IV refuses to crown Ferdinand of Austria emperor | ||
| 1561 Sermon of Poissy | ||
| 1567 Lomaraal van Egmond & Philip van Hoorne captured | ||
| 1583 Girolamo Frescobaldi, composer was born | ||
| 1585 Armand-Jean du Plessicide de Richelieu, premier of France (1624-42) was born | ||
| 1675 New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians | ||
| 1739 Slave revolt in Stono SC led by Jemmy (25 whites killed) | ||
| 1753 1st steam engine arrives in US colonies | ||
| 1776 The United States of America was born when the Continental Congress changed the name of the nation from the United Colonies | ||
| 1826 Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907) was born | ||
| 1828 Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist (War & Peace, Anna Karenina) was born | ||
| 1835 The so-called "September Laws" were introduced in France, suppressing the radical movement and censoring the press. | ||
| 1839 John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph | ||
| 1841 Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300 | ||
| 1850 California becomes 31st state | ||
| 1850 Territories of New Mexico & Utah created | ||
| 1867 Luxembourg gains independence | ||
| 1881 Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab "El Wahid" | ||
| 1903 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated | ||
| 1904 Mounted police 1st used in NYC | ||
| 1908 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va | ||
| 1908 Russia takes part of Poland | ||
| 1911 1st European airpost (Hendon to Windsor, England) | ||
| 1912 J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph) | ||
| 1914 In World War I, the chief of the German general staff, Helmuth von Moltke, called off the German advance after the British and French counter-attacked, thus ending the first Battle of the Marne | ||
| 1918 Dutch govt of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms | ||
| 1919 Boston's police force forms strike | ||
| 1922 Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens | ||
| 1926 Train disaster at Wassenaar Netherland, 4 die | ||
| 1932 Frank Crosetti ties record, striking out twice in 1 inning | ||
| 1932 Mine strikes at Belgian Borinage ended | ||
| 1932 Spanish Cortes grants Catalonia autonomy | ||
| 1932 Steamboat SS Observation explodes in NYC East River (71 killed) | ||
| 1939 Nazi army reaches Warsaw | ||
| 1940 28 German aircraft shot down above England | ||
| 1942 1st bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Oregon (WW II) | ||
| 1942 In one of their rare raids on the U.S. mainland, a Japanese plane dropped incendiaries on Oregon. | ||
| 1943 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome | ||
| 1943 Italy surrenders to Allies | ||
| 1943 Red Army occupies Bachmatsj | ||
| 1943 US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche) | ||
| 1944 Allied forces liberate Luxembourg | ||
| 1944 Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day) | ||
| 1944 Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal Netherland | ||
| 1944 US 113th cavalry passes Belg-Dutch borders | ||
| 1944 Very strong hurricane hits Netherland | ||
| 1945 Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies | ||
| 1948 After the withdrawal of Soviet forces from North Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was proclaimed with Pyongyang as its capital. | ||
| 1950 Massive arrests of communists in France | ||
| 1954 Earthquake strikes Orl‚ansville Algeria: 1,400 killed | ||
| 1956 African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde forms | ||
| 1957 Pres Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction | ||
| 1958 Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London | ||
| 1962 Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses | ||
| 1963 Landslide into Vaiont Dam emptys lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy) | ||
| 1965 Tibet is made an autonomous region of China | ||
| 1967 Uganda declares independence from Great Britain | ||
| 1969 Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82 | ||
| 1971 1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, NY prison | ||
| 1975 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova (18) asks for political asylum | ||
| 1975 Viking 2 Mars probe launch | ||
| 1976 Chairman Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary soldier and statesman, died. He proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949 in Beijing. | ||
| 1985 President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa | ||
| 1985 Race riot in Birmingham England | ||
| 1990 Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait | ||
| 1991 the Soviet Central Asian republic of Tajikistan declared independence from Moscow | ||
| 1993 PLO recognizes state of Israel | ||
| 1993 Ukraine premier Leonid Koetsjma, resigns | ||
| 1994 Tu-22 crashes into Aeroflot Tu-134a at Zhukovsky, 7 killed | ||
| 1997 Sinn Fein accepts Mitchell Principles on para-military disarmamen | ||
| 1997 Former president F.W. de Klerk, who freed South Africa from the scourge of his National Party's apartheid policies, retired from parliamen | ||
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