TODAY in HISTORY

Today is Monday, July 02, the 183rd day of 2018. There are 182 days left in the year.

936 King Henry the Fowler dies in his royal palace in Memleben. He is succeeded by his son Otto I, who becomes the ruler of East Francia. 1298 The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau- Weilburg. 1555 Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola. 1561 Menas, emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz. 1582 Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide. 1613 The first English expedition ( from Virginia) against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place. 1839 Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad. 1853 The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, and provided the spark that set off the Crimean War. 1871 Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States. 1881 Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U. S. President James Garfield ( who would die of complications from his wounds on September 19). 1897 British- Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London. 1900 The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany. 1934 The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm. 1937 Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round- theworld flight. 1940 Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta. 1962 The first Wal- Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas. 1966 The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb code- named Aldébaran in Moruroa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific. 1997 The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis 2001 The AbioCor self- contained artificial heart is first implanted. 2002 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon. 2008 Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC. 2013 The International Astronomical Union names Pluto’s fourth and fifth moons, Kerberos and Styx.