This Day In History

1264 - Battle of Lewes, 2nd Barons' War: Simon de Montfort the younger, Earl of Leicester, defeats English King Henry III

1509 - Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venetians in Northern Italy

1664 - Turkish Grand Vizier Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers

1702 - England & Netherlands declare war on France & Spain

1702 - Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw

1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain (National Day)

1853 - Gail Borden, land surveyor, newspaper publisher and inventor, patents his process for condensed milk

1861 - The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite, strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain

1862 - Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph

1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi takes place

1868 - Japanese Boshin War: end of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō

1897 - Great Britain signs treaty with Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia

1907 - Sweden adopts universal suffrage for elections to its lower house and proportional representation for both houses

1921 - Mussolini's fascists obtain 29 parliamentary seats in Italian elections

1939 - Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.

1944 - British troops occupy Kohima

1944 - General Rommel, Speidel & von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler