This Day In History

• 324- Battle of Adrianople: Roman Emperor Constantine I defeats his co-emperor Licinius, who flees to Byzantium

• 1187- Battle of Horns of Hattin: Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, destroys Jerusalem's crusader army.

• 1250- Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.

• 1428 -Treaty of Delft between Jacoba of Bavaria & Philip the Good of Burgundy

• 1608 - Samuel de Champlain founds city of Quebec

• 1630 - Emperor Ferdinand II opens German Parliament

• 1661- Portugal gives Tangier & Bombay to English King Charles II

• 1720 - Sweden and Denmark sign peace treaty

• 1754- George Washington surrenders to French, Fort Necessity (7 Years' War)

• 1767 - Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret

• 1767 - Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this date)

• 1775 George Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts

• 1778- Prussia declares war on Austria

• 1876- Montenegro declares war on Turkey

• 1900- The British evacuate Rustenburg and occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek in the Anglo-Boer war

• 1942- German troops march into Sebastopol, Crimea

• 1947- Soviet Union doesn't participate in Marshall Plan

• 1950- 1st time US & North Korean forces clash in Korean War

• 1962- Algerian Revolution against French rule ends (Algeria gains independence on 5th July)

• 1965- USSR & Persia sign dam building & economic aid pact

• 1974- Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3

• 1986- Kuwait's National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) dissolves

• 1988- The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second.