This Day In History

• 1099 - Battle at Ascalon: Godfried of Broth leading the Crusaders beats Egyptians Fatimid army

• 1121 - Battle of Didgori: the Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi • 1164 - Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.

• 1323- Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time

• 1492- Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World • 1499- First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets • 1549- French troops conquer Ambleteuse, in the Pas-de-Calais, and kill all the English prisoners. • 1588- Commander of the English fleet Lord Howard of Effingham calls off chase of the Spanish Armada off coast of Scotland • 1588- Medemblik surrenders to Spanish army • 1676-1st war between American colonists & Indians ends in New England

• 1687- Charles of Lotharingen defeats Turkish leaders

• 1687- Battle of Mohacs: Ottoman invaders of Hungary routed by forces of Holy Roman Emperor under Charles of Lorraine

• 1759- Battle of Kunersdorf - Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians

• 1831- Netherlands & Belgium sign peace treaty • 1865- Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery

• 1877- Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device

• 1898- Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed

• 1908- Henry Ford’s company builds the first Model T car

• 1914- France and Great Britian declare war on Austria-Hungary

• 1914- Russian troops take East-Prussia & occupy Marggrabowa

• 1918- WW I: Allies defeat Germans at the Battle of Amiens - the last great battle on the Western Front

• 1920- Battle of Warsaw between Poland and Russia begins