This Day in History
• 1627 - English assault on French Il de Ré
• 1644 - Second Battle of Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies
• 1702 - British troops plunder St Augustine, Florida • 1795 - Pinckney's Treaty [Treaty of San Lorenzo] signed by Spain and US, establishing the southern boundary of the US and giving Americans right to navigate the Mississippi River
• 1806 - The French Army enters in Berlin
• 1810 - United States annexes West Florida from Spain
• 1916 - Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
• 1922 - In Italy, Liberal Luigi Facta resigns in the face of threats from Mussolini that 'either the Government will be given to us or we will seize it by marching on Rome'
• 1924 - The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union
• 1941 - Nazi’s directs gypsy ghetto in Belgrade
• 1942 - 5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles/ Australian advance
• 1948 - Israel recaptures Nizzanim in Negev • 1954 - President Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnam Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm
• 1957 - Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey
• 1958 - General Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as President of Pakistan
• 1959 - Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
• 1961 - 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
• 1962 -Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba
• 1966 - UN deprives South Africa of Namibia • 1969 - Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to John Tinbergen
• 1971 - Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic of Zaire
• 1972 - OPEC approves plan providing for 25 percent government ownership of all Western oil interests operating within Kuwait, Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia
• 1977 - NASA launches space vehicle S-200
• 1979 - St Vincent & Grenadines becomes independent of UK (National Day)
• 1981 - The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
• 1982 - China announces its population has reached 1 billion plus people
• 1982 - IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics • 1986 - British government deregulates financial markets in a “Big Bang”, enhancing London’s status as a financial capital while increasing income inequality
• 1990 - Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic’s first president.
• 1995 - Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
• 1997 - Microsoft argues it should be “free from government interference”
• 2011 - The Royal Australian Navy announces that they discovered the wreck of a World War II submarine in Simpson Harbour, Papua New Guinea during Operation RENDER SAFE- it is likely to be Japanese.2012 - 46 people are killed and 123 injured in Iraq after a series of attacks and bombs
• 2013 - 38 people are killed in a series of car bombings in Bagdhad, Iraq