This Day In History
• 1846- US troops attack Rio Grande occupying Matamoros
• 1860- Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president
• 1869- Surrender and dissolution of the Ezo Republic to Japan.
• 1896-US Supreme court affirms legitimacy of racial separation (Plessy v Ferguson)
• 1896- Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field, Moscow, during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, results in the deaths of 1,389 people
• 1899-World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
• 1917- US Congress passes Selective Service Act, authorizing the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through compulsory enlistment
• 1940- German troops conquer Brussels
• 1941- Italian army in Ethiopia under general Aosta surrenders to Britain
• 1943- Allied bombers attack Pantelleria, an Italian island 100 km southwest of Sicily
• 1944- Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans
• 1948- Arab Legion captures fort on Mt Scopus during Arab-Israeli war.
• 1948-Saudi Arabia joins invasion of Israel
• 1951- UN moves HQ to NYC
• 1951- US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea
• 1964- US Supreme Court rules it unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years
• 1969- Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit
• 1974- India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
• 1974 Nigeria announces 55 percent government participation in all oil concessions
• 1977 - US, USSR and other nations sign the Environmental Modification Convention which prohibits weather warfare having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects