This Day In History
1661 - The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London 1781 - Battle of Jersey: Major Francis Peirson and his men defeat invading French troops 1784 - Turkey & Russia sign treaty Constantinople 1809 - Napoleonic Wars: Invasion of Cayenne, by combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces, begins 1842 - 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before reaching India 1853 - Franklin Pierce, the President-elect of the United States at the time, and his family are involved in a train wreck in Massachusetts 1857 - Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn 1887 ` - Abd-allah II of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II 1896 - 1st US women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake Event of interestEvent of Interest 1907 - Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome) 1912 - New Mexico becomes 47th state of the Union 1912 - Alfred Wegener, geophysicist and meteorologist, presents his controversial theory of continental drift in a lecture at a the Geological Association (Geologischen Vereinigung) at the Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt. 1921 - The Iraqi Army is formed 1925 - Mussolini forms a cabinet composed entirely of Fascists in Italy 1929 - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest 1930 - 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed 1931 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application 1941 - US President Franklin Roosevelt makes his "Four Freedoms" speech (freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear) during his US State of Union address 1950 - Britain recognizes Communist government of China 1951 - Ganghwa massacre: Hundreds of South Korean communist sympathisers are slaughtered 1953 - The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Burma
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1968 - Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon 1971 - Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones 1972 - Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR 1976 - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC 1980 - Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India 1986 - STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem 1987 - Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy 1993 - Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a 1993 - 55 Kashmiri civilians are killed in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir by Indian Border Security Force units 1995 - A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack. 2009 - Israel begins an assault on the Gaza Strip 2012 - A suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus, Syria, killing 26 people and wounding 63 2014 - Truce begins between Free Syrian Army and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in northern Damascus 2016 - North Korea states that they have successfully conducted their fourth nuclear test, saying it was a hydrogen bomb in a claim disputed by most international experts.