This date in history

1492​

Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spain to find a western route to the Indies.

1524​

Present-day New York Harbor is discovered by Giovanni da Verrazzano.

1758​

Frances Williams, the first African-American to graduate from a college in the western hemisphere, publishes a collection of Latin poems.

1808​

Bayonne Decree by Napoleon Bonaparte of France orders seizure of U.S. ships.

1861​

Virginia becomes the eighth state to secede from the Union.

1875​

The game "snooker" is invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain.

1894​

Nikita S. Khrushchev, Soviet premier is born (1958-64).

1929​

Baseball player Babe Ruth and Claire Hodgson, a former member of the Ziegfeld Follies, get married.

1969​

Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

1970​

Apollo 13--originally scheduled to land on the moon--lands back safely on Earth after an accident.

1970​

The Beatles officially break up
 

1676​

Sudbury, Massachusetts is attacked by Indians.

1775​

American revolutionaries Paul Revere and William Dawes ride though the towns of Massachusetts warning that "the British are coming."

1838​

The Wilkes' expedition to the South Pole sets sail.

1853​

The first train in Asia begins running from Bombay to Tanna.

1861​

Colonel Robert E. Lee turns down an offer to command the Union armies.

1923​

Yankee Stadium opens with Babe Ruth hitting a three-run homer as the Yankees beat the Red Sox 4-1.

1942​

James H. Doolittle bombs Tokyo and other Japanese cities.

1943​

Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters.
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1983​

A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon.
 

1764​

The English Parliament bans the American colonies from printing paper money.

1775​

The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.

1782​

The Netherlands recognizes the United States.

1887​

Ole Evinrude, inventor of the first successful outboard motor is born.

1934​

Shirley Temple appears in her first movie.
 

1519​

Envoys of Montezuma II attend the first Easter mass in Central America.

1800​

The Library of Congress is established in Washington, D.C. with a $5,000 allocation.

1805​

U.S. Marines attack and capture the town of Derna in Tripoli from the Barbary pirates.

1833​

A patent is granted for the first soda fountain.

1898​

Spain declares war on United States, rejecting an ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.

1915​

Turks of the Ottoman Empire begin massacring the Armenian minority in their country.
 

1789​

George Washington is inaugurated as the first U.S. president.

1803​

The United States doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase, which was sold by France for $15 million.

1812​

Louisiana is admitted into the Union as a state.

1931​

The George Washington Bridge, linking New York City and New Jersey, opens.

1945​

Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker. Karl Donitz becomes his successor.

1975​

North Vietnamese troops enter the Independence Palace of South Vietnam in Saigon ending the Vietnam War.
 

1598​

Henry IV signs Treaty of Vervins, ending Spain's interference in France.

1776​

France and Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British.

1808​

The citizens of Madrid rise up against Napoleon.

1863​

Stonewall Jackson smashes Joseph Hooker's flank at Chancellorsville, Virginia.

1865​

President Andrew Johnson offers a $100,000 reward for the capture of the Confederate President

1890​

The Territory of Oklahoma is created.

1892​

Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron), German fighter ace of World War I.

1919​

The first U.S. air passenger service starts.

1941​

Hostilities break out between British forces in Iraq and that country's pro-German faction.

1945​

Russian forces take Berlin after 12 days of fierce house-to-house fighting.

1970​

Student anti-war protesters at Ohio's Kent State University burn down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard takes control of campus.
 

1986​

The release of Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer

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1494​

Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica, which he names Santa Gloria.

1814​

British attack the American forces at Ft. Ontario, Oswego, New York.

1818​

Karl Marx, German philosopher (The Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital) is born.

1821​

Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on the island of St. Helena.

1862​

Union and Confederate forces clash at the Battle of Williamsburg, part of the Peninsular Campaign.

1912​

Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing.

1916​

U.S. Marines invade the Dominican Republic.

1943​

Michael Palin, actor and screenwriter (Monty Python's Flying Circus) is born.

1945​

Holland and Denmark are liberated from Nazi control.

1961​

Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space.

1965​

173rd Airborne Brigade arrives in Bien Hoa-Vung, Vietnam, the first regular U.S. Army unit deployed to that country.

2000​

The Sun, Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn align - Earth's moon is also almost in this alignment - leading to Doomsday predictions of massive natural disasters, although such a 'grand confluence' occurs about once in every century.
 
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1430​

Burgundians capture Joan of Arc and sell her to the English.

1701​

Captain William Kidd, the Scottish pirate, is hanged on the banks of the Thames.

1785​

Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals.

1788​

South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1928​

Rosemary Clooney, singer is born

1934​

Gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed by Texas Rangers.
 

0585​

Thales of Greece makes the first known prediction of a solar eclipse.

1787​

The Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia with George Washington presiding.

1803​

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher is born.

1878​

Bill "Mr. Bojangles" Robinson, tap dancer is born.

1889​

Igor Sikorsky, American aviation engineer who developed the first successful helicopter is born.

1914​

The British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule.

1925​

John Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwinian theory in school.

1946​

Jordan gains independence from Britain.

1953​

The first atomic cannon is fired in Nevada.
 

1098​

Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seize Antioch, Turkey.

1539​

Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain.

1808​

Jefferson Davis, President of Confederate States of America is born.

1861​

Union troops defeat Confederate forces at Philippi, in western Virginia

1864​

Some 7,000 Union troops are killed within 30 minutes during the Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia.

1888​

The classic baseball poem "Casey at the Bat," written by Ernest L. Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.

1923​

In Italy, dictator Benito Mussolini grants women the right to vote.

1940​

The German Luftwaffe hits Paris with 1,100 bombs.

1965​

Astronaut Edward White becomes the first American to walk in space when he exits the Gemini 4 space capsule.

1989​

The Chinese government begins its crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Hundreds are killed and thousands are arrested.
 
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