This Day In History
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1421 -Battle of Baugé - French defeat English 1556- Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury
156-5 Turkish Armada leaves Constantinople bound for the siege of Malta with about 193 ships
1680- Parliament of Breisach accepts French sovereignty over Elzas
1692- Emperor Leopold I names Duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king
1778- Captain James Cook sights Cape Flattery, now in Washington state
1784- The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand
Thomas Jefferson, 1st Secretary of State
1790 -Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State under President Washington 1794- Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries
1832- British Parliament, led by Charles Grey, passes the Reform Act, introducing wideranging changes to electoral system of England and Wales, increasing electorate from about 500,000 voters to 813,000
1873- Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico, celebrated as Emancipation Day
1917- The USA is the first nation to recognize the new government of Russia
1943- Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium
1945- Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt
1946- Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan
1953- Antonín Zápotocký chosen as President of Czechoslovakia
1954- Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens
1957- Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian
1958- Under pressure King Saud appoints Faisal Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia
1960- 1st patent for lasers granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes
1965- Dudley Senanayake wins his third in general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
1965- US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
1967- Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1971- Brian Faulkner becomes the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
1971- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP 1972- US Congress approves the Equal Rights Amendment (still not ratified)
1977 - Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
1978 - France performs nuclear test
1979 - Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
1979 -The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode 24 bombs in various locations across Northern Ireland
1981 - Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
1982 - 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched
1982 - Iran offensive against Iraq
1983 - Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president 1985 - NASA launches Intelsat VA F-10
1988 - US Congress overrides President Reagan’s veto of sweeping civil rights bill
1993 - Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS
1994- Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid is the first woman to win architecture's Pritzker Prize [1] 1994- Soyuz TM-21 lands
1997- Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU)
2010- NASA's rover 'Spirit' gets caught in a sand trap on Mars and ceases communications with Earth