Today in History

Today in History

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1539 Emperor Charles V reaches a truce with German Protestants at Frankfurt, Germany.

1689 Residents of Boston oust their governor, Edmond Andros.

1764 The English Parliament bans the American colonies from printing paper money.

1775 The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.

1782 The Netherlands recognizes the United States.

1794 Tadeusz Kosciuszko forces the Russians out of Warsaw.

1802 The Spanish reopen New Orleans port to American merchants.

1824 English poet Lord George Gordon Byron dies of malaria at age 36 while aiding Greek independence.

1861 The Baltimore riots result in four Union soldiers and nine civilians killed.

1861 President Abraham Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports.

1880 he Times war correspondent telephones a report of the Battle of Ahmed Khel, the first time news is sent from a field of battle in this manner.

1927 In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek.

1934 Shirley Temple appears in her first movie.

1938 General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War.

1939 Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights.

1943 The Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi rule begins.

1960 Baseball uniforms begin displaying player’s names on their backs.

1971 Russia launches its first Salyut space station.

1977 Alex Haley receives a special Pulitzer Prize for his book Roots.

1982 NASA names Sally Ride to be the first woman astronaut.

1989 The battleship USS Iowa‘s number 2 turret explodes, killing sailors.

1993 The FBI ends a 51-day siege by storming the Branch Davidian religious cult headquarters in Waco, Texas.

1995 A truck bomb explodes in front of the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.

1666 Sarah Kemble Knight, diarist.

1721 Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

1832 Lucretia Rudolph, President James A. Garfield‘s first lady.

1877 Ole Evinrude, inventor of the first successful outboard motor.

1900 Richard Hughes, English novelist and playwright (A High Wind in Jamaica).

1903 Eliot Ness, Treasury agent during Prohibition.

1905 Tom Hopkinson, British writer.

1912 Glenn T. Seaborg, physicist.

1933 Etheridge Knight, poet.

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