This Day In History

• 1793 - French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured

• 1795 - Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution

• 1795 - Treaty of Basel - Prussia ends war with France

• 1915 - World War I: The LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.

• 1924 - Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM

• 1931 - Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact

• 1943 - Anti-fascist strikes in Italy

• 1943 - RAF bombs Essen Germany

• 1949 - The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.

• 1958 - Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit

• 1959 - Iran & US sign economic & military treaty

• 1968 - US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun

• 1970 - Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect

• 1970 - Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively.

• 1979 - Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles)

• 1979 - Iran resumes petroleum exports

• 1980 - Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49

• 1981 - Michael Stewart's musical "Bring Back Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater, NYC for 4

• 1982 - Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data

• 1991 - Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait

• 1993 - Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die

• 1994 - Largest milkshake made; 1,955 gallons of chocolate in Nelspruit, South Africa

• 2012 - 27 members of Iraq's security force are killed by gunmen disguised as police in Haditha

• 2012 - Tropical Storm Irina kills 65 in Madagascar

• 2013 - Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás Maduro assumes the presidency after the death of Hugo Chávez

• 2013 - Willcom announces the world's smallest mobile phone, weighing 32 grams

• 2014 - A survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights reports that about 1/3 of women in the European Union have experienced physical or sexual violence since the age of 15

• Event of interestEvent of Interest

• 2015 - Harrison Ford crash-lands his 1942 Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR aeroplane in California

• 2015 - 8th Islamic State militants ransack and destroy ancient cities of Nimrud, Hatra and Dur-Sharrukin in Iraq

• 2016 - US air strike kills 150 Al-Shabaab militants north of Mogadishu, Somalia

• 2017 - US President Donald Trump in a tweet accusses former President Obama without offering any evidence of wiretapping Trump Towers during the presidential campaign

• 2018 - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meets South Korean officials for the first time since taking office, hosting a dinner in Pyongyang

• 2018 - China announces a military budget of 1.11 trillion yuan ($175 billion)