This Day In History
1563- Russian troops occupy Polotsk Lithuania 1637- Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor
1676- Isaac Newton writes to Robert Hooke “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants” (O.S. 5 Feb)
1677- King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands
1763- Austria, Prussia & Saxony sign the Treaty of Hubertusburg, marking the end of the French and Indian War and of the Seven Years' War
1775- Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI
1799- 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania
1804- New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery
1830- Beginning of the famous debate between French naturalists Georges Cuvier and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on animal structure
1842- 1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC
1851- Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave
1852- Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient
1869- Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
1876- Historic Elm at Boston blown down
1898- USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown, 258 sailors die
1900- Boer War: Siege of Kimberley broken by British troops under Lieutenant-General John French after a 124 day siege. Kimberley defense led by Cecil Rhodes.
1906- British Labour Party founded
1918- US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany off Ireland
1922- Marconi begins transmissions from Essex
1933 - President-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
1936 - Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (the People’s Car, aka the Kaefer/beetle)
1939 - German battleship Bismarck was launched 1942 - German U-boat shells Antillian oil refinery 1942 - Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra
1942 -WWII: British ruled Singapore surrenders to the Japanese
1944 - 891 British bombers attack Berlin
1944 - Attack begins at Monte Cassino monastery, Italy
1948 - Mao Zedong’s army occupies Yenan.
1955 - 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced.
1956 - Pirates & KC As cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white.
1959 - Antonio Segni forms Italian government 1965 - Canada replaces Union Jack flag with Maple Leaf
1965 - Maple Leaf becomes official flag of Canada 1966 -KeesVerkerk becomes world champion allround skater
1967 - 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted 1970 - Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102
1970 - Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo 1971 - After 1,200 years Great Britain abandons pence & shilling system for decimal currency
1973 - USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)
1977 - Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election
1984 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
1985 - STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 - World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23.
1989 - Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt 1989 - Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends
1993 - Bombings by mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogota, Colombia
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