This Day In History
1797 - 1st US Navy ship, the "United States," is launched
1801 - First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America (1st US foreign war)
1804 - British Prime Minister Henry Addington resigns, replaced by William Pitt the Younger
1857 - Indian Mutiny against rule by the British East India Company begins with the revolt of the Sepoy soldiers in Meerut
1862 - Battle of Plum Run Bend, Tennessee
1864 - Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
1865 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis captured by Union troops at Irwinsville Georgia (US Civil War)
1871 - Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France & Germany ends Franco-Prussian war
1872 - Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for US presidency by Equal Rights Party at Apollo Hall, NYC
1910 - Halley's Comet closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass
1915 - Canadian physician Cluny MacPherson first presents his gas mask invention to the British War Office
1917 - Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks
1918 - HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor
1925 - To control demonstrations against foreigners, British troops in Shanghai fire into a crowd, leading to a boycott against British goods 1933- Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany 1933- Paraguay declares war on Bolivia
1940- French troops arrive in Zealand/Brabant Netherlands
1940- Nazi armies attack Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg
1940- Winston Churchill
Chamberlain as British PM
1940- World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
1942-World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign. 1944- Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan
1945- Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese 1945- Russian troops occupied Prague
1948- 1st attack by Egyptian irregular forces at Kfar Darom Israel
1956- French government sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria
1959- Soviet forces arrive in Afghanistan
1967- Stockholm Vietnam Tribunal declares US aggression in Vietnam/Cambodia
1968- Vietnam peace talks began in Paris between the US & North Vietnam
1969- Apollo 10 transmit 1st color pictures of Earth from space
1979-Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) completes nonstop cycle ride of 187 hrs, 28 min, around
Viagra Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka [From May 2]
1994- Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president
1994- Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian government with 5 neo-fascists
1995-- Britain lifts a 23-year ban on ministerial talks with Sinn Féin
1995 In South Africa, 104 miners killed in an elevator accident
1996- 2 US Marine helicopters collided during joint US & British war games
1996- Excel Communications, Inc. becomes the youngest company ever to join the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), trading under the symbol (ECI) 2000- India's population reaches 1 billion, baby girl Aastha born at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital chosen as symbolic billionth
succeeds
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