This Day In History
1370 - Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Second Battle of St Albans - Lancastrian army defeats Yorkists and recaptures King Henry VI
1500 - Battle of Hemmingstedt - German peasant army repels ducal army of Schleswig and Holstein 1670 - France & Bavaria sign military assistance treaty
1814 - Battle of Mormant: French Imperial army defeat Russian
Austrian forces (War of the Sixth Coalition).
1837 - Charles Lyell makes his presidential address to the Geographical
Society, London and announces that Richard Owen has concluded from
Darwin’s fossils that extinct species were related to current species in the same locality.
1854 - Britain recognises independence of Orange Free State (South
Africa).
1864 - Confederate submarine HL Hunley sinks Union ship Housatonic - world' first successful submarine attack
1865 - Battle of Charleston, South Carolina
1865- Columbia in South Carolina burns down during the American Civil War
1867- Gyula Andressy becomes premier of Hungary 1880- Alexander II of Russia survives an assassination attempt
1897 - Emilio Aguinaldo and a group of katipuneros defeat Spanish forces led by General Camilo de Polavieja at the Battle of Zapote Bridge in Cavite 1911- 1st hydroplane flight to & from a ship (Glenn Curtiss, San Diego)
1913- 1st minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon)
1915- Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WW I, is mortally wounded
1916 Sigmund Romberg, James Hanley, Harold R. Atteridge and Edgar Smith's musical Robinson Crusoe Jr. premieres in NYC
1917- In Australia, Nationalist Party takes over a coalition government
1928- Johan Grøttumsbråten leads a Norwegian sweep of the medals in the 18k cross country at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics; he also wins the Nordic combined gold the following day
1930- French government of André Tardieu falls for the first time
1936 - The world’s first superhero, The Phantom, a cartoon strip by Lee
Falk, makes his first appearance in comics.
1959 - 1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg
1965 - US Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures
1966 - French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit
1967 - Kosmos 140 (Soyuz Test) launches into Earth orbit
1969 - Golda Meir sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Israel
1974 - 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
2008 - Kosovo declares independence from Serbia. 2012 - Approximately 70 ancient Olympic artifacts are stolen from the
Archaeological Museum of Greece
2013 - 37 people are killed and 130 are injured in a series of Baghdad car bombings.
2014- American pair Meryl Davis and Charlie White win the first Olympic gold medal for the US in ice dance at the Sochi Winter Games
2014- Belarus takes the aerials double at the Sochi Winter Olympics when Anton Kushnir wins the men's event; Alla Tsuper claims the women's section
2014- US Secretary of State John Kerry claims climate change requires urgent action and that only a small "window of time" remained open