This Day In History
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1531- King Henry VIII is recognized as the supreme head of the Church in England by the Convocation of Canterbury
1658- Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark
1702- James II's daughter Anne Stuart becomes Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland following the death of William III
1722- Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
1746- Duke of Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen
1754- Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain
1799- Napoleon Bonaparte's forces capture the city of Jaffa from the Ottoman Empire in Palestine, after a 5 day siege
1801- British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
1844- King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway
1855- 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls
1857- British seismologist John Milne is hired by the Japanese government as a foreign adviser (oyatoi gaikokujin)
1861- St Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies
1862- Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal
1865- Battle of Kingston, North Carolina (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks)
1867- British North America Act is passed in the House of Commons, serves as Canada's constitution for more than 100 years
1884- Susan B. Anthony addresses U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote, 16 years after legislators 1st introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.
1904- Australian cricket spin bowler Hugh Trumble dismisses England batsmen Bernard Bosanquet, Plum Warner and Dick Lilley for his second Test hat-trick in 5th Test victory in Melbourne; Trumble's final Test
1916- US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime
1917- Russian "February Revolution" begins in earnest with protests celebrating International Woman's Day and riots in St Petersburg over food rations and conduct of the war
1920- Denmark & Cuba join the League of Nations
1921- Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
1929- US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
1934- Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
1942- Japanese forces capture Rangoon, Burma 1942- KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies
1943- 335 allied bombers attack German city of Nuremberg, a centre for military production 1945- International Women's Day is 1st observed 1952- Antoine Pinay forms French government 1957- Egypt reopens the Suez Canal after Israel withdraws from occupied Egyptian territory 1957- Israeli troops leave Egypt in compliance with UN resolution
1957- USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test 1959- Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq
1961- US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hrs
1963 Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria
1964 - Cassius Clay converts to Islam, and is renamed Muhammad Ali
1965 - US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam