This Day In History

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1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.

1518 Treaty of St Truiden: anti-French Trapdoors/ Bourgondisch covenant

1522- Battle of La Bicocca: a combined French and Venetian was decisively defeated by a SpanishImperial and Papal army

1522 Battle at Bicacca: Charles I & Pope Adrianus VI beat France

1526- Mughal King Babur beats sultan of Delhi 1650 - The Battle of Carbisdale: Royalist army under Marquess of Montrose invades mainland Scotland from Orkney; defeated by a Covenanter army.

1662- Netherlands & France sign military covenant

1805 - US Marines attack shores of Tripoli

1861- US President Abraham Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus (US Civil War)

1863 - Battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL

1865 - Steamboat "SS Sultana" explodes in the Mississippi River, killing up to 1,800 of the 2,427 passengers in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. Most were paroled Union POWs on their way home. 1890- French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan

1909- Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid overthrown

1911 - Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore (for the time being) of the United States Senate.

1911- Indian passive resistance is suspended when Gen. J.C. Smuts enters into negotiations with Mahatma Gandhi.

1915-Counterattack launched by Turkish forces under the command of Mustafa

Kemal Atatürk against allied troops

1941- German troops occupy Athens, Greece

1942- Belgian Jews are forced to wear stars

1943- Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London

1945-Italian partisans capture Benito Mussolini at Dongo (Lake Como)

1945- World War II: The Völkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of the Nazi Party, ceases publication.

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