Today in History

Today in History

1327 Edward II of England is deposed by his eldest son, Edward III.

1616 The French explorer Samuel de Champlain arrives to winter in a Huron Indian village after being wounded in a battle with Iroquois in New France.

1783 Britain signs a peace agreement with France and Spain, who allied against it in the American War of Independence.

1908 The Sullivan Ordinance bars women from smoking in public facilities in the United States.

1930 Charles Lindbergh arrives in New York, setting a cross country flying record of 14.75 hours.

1935 Belgium arrests some Nazi agitators who urge for a return to the Reich.

1941 Hitler meets with Mussolini and offers aid in Albania and Greece.

1942 Nazi officials meet in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to decide the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.”

1944 Allied forces in Italy begin unsuccessful operations to cross the Rapido River and seize Cassino.

1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for his fourth term.

1945 The Allies sign a truce with the Hungarians.

1946 Franceʼs Charles DeGaulle hands in his resignation.

1952 British troops occupy Ismalia, Egypt.

1954 Over 22,000 anti-Communist prisoners are turned over to UN forces in Korea.

1977 President Jimmy Carter is sworn in and then surprises the nation as he walks from the U.S. Capitol to the White House.

1981 Ronald Reagan is sworn in as president at the same time 52 American hostages are released from their captors in Tehran, Iran.

Born

1760 Charles III, King of Spain.

1732 Richard Henry Lee, American Revolutionary patriot and signatory of the Declaration of Independence.

1820 Anne Clough, promoter of higher education.

1893 Bessy Colman, first African American aviator.

1896 George Burns, comedian and actor in vaudeville, radio, television and film.

1910 Joy Adamson, British author and naturalist (Born Free).

1930 Dr. Edwin ʻBuzzʼ Aldrin, second man to walk on the moon.

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