This Day In History
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630- Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem
717- Battle of Vincy fought in the Cambrai during Frankish Civil War; Charles Martel's forces defeat those of King Chilperic II and his mayor Ragenfrid 1188- Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku
1804 -Napoleonic Code adopted in France, stresses clearly written and accessible law
1864- Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
1865- Battle of Bentonville ends, Confederate effort to stop Sherman
1899 - British & French accord over West Africa 1907 - US sends troops to Honduras to halt the Nicaraguan army takeover
1918- World War I: Germany launches Somme offensive
1925- Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijri calendar 1927- Guomindang Army conquers Shanghai as British marines flee
1934- Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
1935- Persia is officially renamed Iran
1942 - Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
1943 - Assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler fails
1945 - During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany
1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test 1962 - Yogi the bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds by the US military testing ejection seats
1965 - US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
1975 - Ethiopia abolishes its monarchy after 3,000 years
1979 - Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel
1990 - Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president
1991 - 27 lost at sea when 2 US Navy antisubmarine planes collide
1991 - UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq
1992 - Pakistan scores 6-264 to overhaul NZ in exciting World Cup semi
1994 - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) enters into force after being ratified by the required number of nations
1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
2002 - In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. 2006 - Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Dubayy in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport join together and riot, causing $1M in damage. 2012 - Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries are sentenced to 7,710 years in jail for their role in the Plan de Sanchez massacre in 1982
2012 - Greek Parliament votes in favour of an international bailout deal
2013 - 42 people are killed and 84 are injured by a bombing in a mosque in Damascus, Syria
2013 - At least 45 people drown and 60 are missing after a Nigerian boat sinks off the shore of Gabon
2013 - 24 people are killed and 100 are injured by a tornado and hail storm in southern China
2013 - The European Space Agency reveals new data that indicates that the universe is 13.82 billion years old
2014 - ussia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation
2018 - Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg admits they "made mistakes" after data on 50 million users is harvested by Cambridge Analytica
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