This Day In History
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1280- Japanese Imperial Court orders all temples and shrines to pray for victory in the impending second Mongol invasion 1525- Swiss and German mercenaries desert the army of French King Francis I 1547- King Edward VI of England crowned following the death of his father Henry VIII 1613- Gerard Reynst appointed Governor-General of Dutch East Indies 1619- Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague for alleged crimes against the federal government 1653- Defeat of Dutch fleet under Adm Van Tromp by Admiral Blake off Portsmouth 1710Prince John William Friso becomes Stadtholder of Groningen, Netherlands 1732- Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna 1745- Jacobite troops occupy Fort Augustus, Scotland 1768- 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens in Pennsylvania 1798- French General Louis Alexandre Berthier forcibly removes Pope Pius VI from Rome during French occupation of Rome (Pope later dies a prisoner in Valence) 1810- Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, executed.
1864 Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida
1921 - Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran
1922 - Vilnius, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland
1932 - Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China
1938 - UK Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigns stating Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has appeased Nazi Germany
1938 - Adolf Hitler announces his support for Japan during the Sino-Japanese War
1941 - Nazi Germany orders Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
1952 - Britain's Jeannette Altwegg wins the Olympic women’s figure skating gold medal at the Olso Winter Games ahead of American Tenley Albright, who goes on to win in Cortina d'Ampezzo (1956) 1952 - American alpine skier Andrea Mead-Lawrence is only multi-gold medallist at the Oslo Winter Olympics when she wins the slalom, after taking out the inaugural giant slalom
1953 - US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling
1954 - General Zahedi wins election in Persia
1962 - John Glenn becomes the 1st American to orbit the Earth, aboard Friendship 7
1965 - Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data
1965 - Turkish government of Uerguplu forms
1966 - Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - A feud begins between the official Irish Republican Army and the Irish National Liberation Army; the two groups assassinate a number of each other’s volunteers until the feud ends in June 1975 1978 - Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus
1983 - Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km)
1989 - An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England
1998 - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations
2001 - The United States Supreme Court declines to consider an appeal by five major oil companies against Unocal’s patent on production of cleaner “reformulated” gasoline sold in California
2003 - During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the club ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 300 others. 2005 - Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
2012 - South Korea angers North Korea as it proceeds with live fire drills in disputed Korean sea borders 2012 - Scientists successfully regenerate the flowering plant, Silene stenophylla from a 31,800 year