This Day In History
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1454- Siege of Malbork, including its castle, seat of the Teutonic Order begun by Polish and Prussian forces - captured September 1454
1531- Evangelical German
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1557- 1st Russian Embassy arrives in London
1594- Henry IV crowned King of France
1626- Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci 1665- Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast: Vice-admiral De Ruyter beats English
1667- Abraham Crijnssen conquers Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname
1700- English explorer William Dampier is the 1st British person to visit the Pacific Island of New Britain, which he names
1713- French troops bomb Willemstad, Curacao 1803- Great fire in Bombay, India
1844- Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)
1860 - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency
1879 - Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
1881 - Battle at Amajuba: South African Boers vs British army under General Colley
1900 - Battle at Pietershoogte during the Boer War 1908 - Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
1929 - Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
1930 - Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
1938 - Britain & France recognize Franco government in Spain
1939 - France recognizes Franco's regime in Spain 1942 - J S Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun 1949 - Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st President of Israel
1950 - General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 - The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
1962 - South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm's palace bombed by dissident air pilots in a failed assassination attempt
1967 - Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
1967 - Dominica gains independence from England 1968 - CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite delivers a scathing editorial on America's chances of winning the Vietnam War
1969 - General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup
1972 - US President Richard Nixon and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai issue Shanghai Communique 1976 - Final meeting between Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon
1980 - Israel & Egypt exchange ambassadors
1987 - Donald Regan resigns as White House chief of staff
1987 - NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption
1988 - Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympic 500m speed skating in record 39.1
1988 - Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34
1989 - German war criminals Aus der Funten and Fischer freed in Holland
1995 - Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (5480 killed)
1998 - Apple discontinues development of the Newton computer
1998 - Britain's House of Lords agrees to end 1,000 years of male precedence by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first born son
1999 - Korea International School is founded by Soon-Il Chung
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