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Today in History, May 23rd

Date: May 23, 2013 Author: Today in History Comments: Leave a reply

A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, May 23rd!

1430 Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.
1533 The marriage of England’s King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.
1618 The Thirty Years War begins.
1701 Captain William Kidd, the Scottish pirate, is hanged on the banks of the Thames.

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Captain William Kidd
1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals.
1788 South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify U.S. Constitution.
1861 Pro-Union and pro-Confederate forces clash in western Virginia.
1862 Confederate General “Stonewall” Jackson takes Front Royal, Virginia.
1864 Union General Ulysses Grant attempts to outflank Confederate Robert E. Lee in the Battle of North Anna, Virginia.
1873 Canada’s North West Mounted Police force was established.
1900 Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney becomes the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, thirty-seven years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.

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William H. Carney
1901 American forces capture Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo.
1915 Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War I.
1934 Gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed by Texas Rangers.
1937 Industrialist John D. Rockefeller died at age 97.
1945 Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, commits suicide after being captured by Allied forces.
1949 The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) was established.
1960 Israel announced it had captured former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
1997 Iranians elected a moderate president, Mohammad Khatami, over hard-liners in the ruling Muslim clergy.
2003 Congress sent President George W. Bush a $330 billion package of tax cuts – the third of his presidency.
2005 Actor Tom Cruise jumped on the couch while declaring his love for actress Katie Holmes on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Tom-Cruise-couch
2011 The European Union imposed sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad over the continuing crackdown on anti-government protesters.

Today in History facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, and HistoryOrb.com.

Today in History, May 15th

Date: May 15, 2013 Author: Today in History Comments: Leave a reply

A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, May 15th!

1602 English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold discovers Cape Cod.
1614 An aristocratic uprising in France ends with treaty of St. Menehould.
1618 Johannes Kepler discovers his harmonics law.

Johannes-Kepler

Johannes Kepler
1702 The War of Spanish Succession begins.
1730 Following the resignation of Lord Townshend, Robert Walpole becomes the sole minister in the English cabinet.
1768 By the Treaty of Versailles, France purchases Corsica from Genoa.
1795 Napoleon enters the Lombardian capital of Milan in triumph.
1820 The U.S. Congress designates the slave trade a form of piracy.
1849 Neapolitan troops enter Palermo, Sicily.
1862 The Union ironclad Monitor and the gunboat Galena fire on Confederate troops at the Battle of Drewry’s Bluff, Virginia.
1864 At the Battle of New Market, Virginia Military Institute cadets repel a Union attack.
1886 Emily Dickinson dies in Amherst, Mass., where she had lived in seclusion for the previous 24 years.
1916 U.S. Marines land in Santo Domingo to quell civil disorder.
1918 Pfc. Henry Johnson and Pfc. Needham Roberts receive the Croix de Guerre for their services in World War I. They are the first Americans to win France’s highest military medal.
1930 Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a United Airlines flight from San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyo.
1942 The United States begins rationing gasoline.
1948 Hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
1958 Sputnik III is launched by the Soviet Union.
1963 The last Project Mercury space flight, carrying Gordon Cooper, is launched.
1968 U.S. Marines relieve army troops in Nhi Ha, South Vietnam after a fourteen-day battle.
1969 Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned amid a controversy over his past legal fees.
1970 Two black students at Jackson State College in Mississippi were killed when police opened fire during student protests.
1972 Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shot while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in Laurel, Md., and left permanently paralyzed below the waist.

George-Wallace

George Wallace
1975 The merchant ship Mayaguez is recaptured from Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge.
1988 Soviets forces begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan.
1988 The Soviet Union began withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan.
2001 A runaway freight train rolled about 70 miles through Ohio with no one aboard before a railroad employee jumped onto the locomotive and brought it to a stop.
2003 Texas Democrats returned home after a self-imposed four-day exile in Oklahoma in a dispute over a redistricting plan.
2006 A defiant Saddam Hussein refused to enter a plea at his trial in Iraq for crimes against humanity, insisting he was still the country’s president.
2006 The United States removed Libya from its list of terrorist states.
2007 The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who helped build the Christian right into a political force, died at age 73.
2007 Yolanda King, the daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died at age 51.
2008 California’s Supreme Court declared gay couples in the state could marry – a victory for the gay rights movement that was overturned by the passage of Proposition 8 the following November.

Today in History, May 8th

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1541 Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River which he calls Rio de Espiritu Santo.
1559 An act of supremacy defines Queen Elizabeth I as the supreme governor of the church of England.
1794 The United States Post Office is established.
1794 Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, was executed on the guillotine during France’s Reign of Terror.

Antoine-Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier
1846 The first major battle of the Mexican War is fought at Palo Alto, Texas.
1862 General ‘Stonewall’ Jackson repulses the Federals at the Battle of McDowell, in the Shenendoah Valley.
1864 Union troops arrive at Spotsylvania Court House to find the Confederates waiting for them.
1886 Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
1895 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki.
1904 U.S. Marines land in Tangier, North Africa, to protect the Belgian legation.
1919 The first transatlantic flight by a navy seaplane takes-off.
1940 German commandos in Dutch uniforms cross the Dutch border to hold bridges for the advancing German army.
1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea between the Japanese Navy and the U.S. Navy ends.
1944 The first “eye bank” was established, in New York City.
1945 President Harry S. Truman announced in a radio address that World War II had ended in Europe.
1952 Allied fighter-bombers stage the largest raid of the war on North Korea.
1958 President Eisenhower orders the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green becomes the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.

Ernest Green

Ernest Green
1958 Vice President Richard Nixon was shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by anti-American protesters in Lima, Peru.
1968 Jim “Catfish” Hunter of the Oakland Athletics pitched a perfect game against the Minnesota Twins in Oakland.
1970 Construction workers broke up an anti-war protest on New York City’s Wall Street.
1970 The album “Let It Be” by the Beatles was released.
1973 Militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered.
1978 David Berkowitz pleaded guilty in Brooklyn to the “Son of Sam” killings.
1984 The Soviet Union announces it will not participate in Summer Olympics planned for Los Angeles.
1987 Gary Hart, dogged by questions about his personal life, withdrew from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1995 Jacques Chirac is elected president of France.
1999 The Citadel, South Carolina’s formerly all-male military school, graduated its first female cadet.

Nancy Mace

Nancy Mace

Today in History facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, and HistoryOrb.com.

Today in History, May 4th

Date: May 4, 2013 Author: Today in History Comments: Leave a reply
1471 In England, the Yorkists defeat the Landcastians at the battle of Tewkesbury.
1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons to Dutch Explorer Peter Minuit.

Peter-Minuit

Peter Minuit
1715 A French manufacturer debuts the first folding umbrella.
1776 Rhode Island declares independence from England.
1795 Thousands of rioters enter jails in Lyons, France, and massacre 99 Jacobin prisoners.
1814 Napoleon Bonaparte disembarks at Portoferraio on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.
1863 The Battle of Chancellorsville ends when Union Army retreats.
1864 Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s forces cross the Rapidan River and meet Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army.
1886 A labor demonstration for an eight-hour workday at Haymarket Square in Chicago turned into a riot when a bomb exploded.
1927 A balloon soars over 40,000 feet for the first time.
1927 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded.
1930 Mahatma Gandhi is arrested by the British.
1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea commences.
1942 The United States begins food rationing.
1961 A group of Freedom Riders left Washington, D.C., for New Orleans to challenge racial segregation on interstate buses and in bus terminals.
1970 Ohio National Guardsmen open fire on student protesters at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine others.
1980 Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito died at age 87.

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Josip Broz Tito
1994 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed an accord on Palestinian autonomy that granted self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
1998 Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was given four life sentences plus 30 years by a federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., under a plea agreement that spared him the death penalty.
2000 Londoners elected their mayor for the first time.
2006 A federal judge sentenced Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison for his role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
2007 Paris Hilton was sentenced to jail for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. (The hotel heiress served 23 days behind bars.)

Today in History facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, and HistoryOrb.com.

Today in History, April 23rd

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1348 The first English order of knighthood is founded.
1521 The Comuneros are crushed by royalist troops in Spain.
1616 The Spanish poet Cervantes died in Madrid.
1661 Charles II is formally crowned king, returning the monarchy to Britain, albeit with greatly reduced powers.

Charles II

Charles II
1759 British forces seize Basse-Terre and Guadeloupe from France.
1789 President-elect George Washington and his wife moved into the first executive mansion, the Franklin House in New York City.
1791 James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, was born in Franklin County, Pa.
1826 Missolonghi falls to Egyptian forces.
1856 Free Stater J.N. Mace in Westport, Kansas shoots pro-slavery sheriff Samuel Jones in the back.
1865 Union cavalry units continue to skirmish with Confederate forces in Henderson, North Carolina and Munsford Station, Alalbama.
1895 Russia, France, and Germany force Japan to return the Liaodong peninsula to China.
1896 Motion pictures premiere in New York City.
1915 The ACA becomes the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA), the forerunner of NASA.
1920 The Turkish Grand National Assembly has first meeting in Ankara.
1924 The U.S. Senate passes the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill.
1940 About 200 people died in a dance-hall fire in Natchez, Miss.
1945 The Soviet Army fights its way into Berlin.
1950 Chiang Kai-shek evacuates Hainan, leaving mainland China to Mao Zedong and the communists.
1954 The Army-McCarthy hearings begin.
1954 Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his 755 major-league home runs in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. (Aaron’s career total is second only to Barry Bonds.)

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Hank Aaron
1966 President Lyndon Johnson publicly appeals for more nations to come to the aid of South Vietnam.
1968 Leftist students at Columbia University in New York City began a weeklong occupation of several campus buildings.
1969 Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for killing Senator Robert Kennedy.
1971 The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 10, becoming the first in Salyut 1 space station.
1971 The Rolling Stones album “Sticky Fingers” was released.
1985 The Coca-Cola Co. announced it was changing its secret formula for Coke. (Negative public reaction forced the company to revert to the original version.)
2005 Co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the first video to YouTube.com.

Jawed-Karim

Jawed Karim (Right)
2007 Boris Yeltsin, the first freely elected Russian president, died at age 76.
2010 Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the nation’s toughest illegal immigration measure into law.

Today in History facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, and HistoryOrb.com.