TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS FRIDAY, JULY 13, 2018

On this day in history:

1099 - The Crusaders launched their final assault on Muslims in Jerusalem. 1534 - The Ottoman armies captured Tabriz in northwestern Persia.

1558 - Led by the court of Egmont, the Spanish army defeated the French at Gravelines, France.

1643 - In England, the Roundheads, led by Sir William Waller, were defeated by royalist troops under Lord Wilmot in the Battle of Roundway Down.

1896 - Philadelphia’s Ed Delahanty became the second major league player to hit four home runs in a single game. 1931 - A major German financial institution, Danabank, failed. This led to the closing of all banks in Germany until August 5.

1941 - Britain and the Soviet Union signed a mutual aid pact, that provided the means for Britain to send war material to the Soviet Union. 1945 - Joseph Benedict Chifley, Australia’s fifth wartime Prime Minister, is sworn into office.

1954 - In Geneva, the United States, Great Britain and France reached an accord on Indochina which divided Vietnam into two countries, North and South, along the 17th parallel.

1973 - David Bedford set a new world record in the 10,000-meter race in London. His time was 27 minutes, 31 seconds.

1985 - The Live Aid concert raises in excess of £150 million for famine relief in Africa. 2008 - Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001.

2011 - Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130.

2013 - Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160 million in East China and Taiwan.

2016 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron resigns, and is succeeded by Theresa May.