On This Day in History II

328 CE
Athanasius the Great became a bishop of Alexandria.

480 CE
Former emperor Julius Nepos was murdered in Dalmatia. He was probably killed at the behest of one of his predecessors, Glicerius, who abdicated in June.

1671
Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England’s Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

1877
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.

1887
Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show opens in London.

1901
Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.

1904
The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph.

1920
Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.

1926
Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd’s diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).

1950
Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the “Schuman declaration”, is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.

1955
Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.

1960
The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle’s Enovid, making Enovid the world’s first approved oral contraceptive pill.

1961
Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.

1964
Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family’s toppling, is executed.

1974
Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.

1980
In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. 35 people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.

70 CE
The Romans began the siege of Jerusalem during so-called Jewish war. Jerusalem, having three walls, of which the inner was the strongest and the most durable, seemed to be unassailable. The Romans spent four months fighting for the city to get it on August 29. Joseph claimed that 1 100, 000 people were killed during the siege, the majority of whom were Jews. 97 000 Jews were captured and enslaved, including Simon bar Giora and John of Giscala. Many fled to areas around the Mediterranean. According to Philostratus, Titus reportedly refused to accept the victory, as he had no merit in the victory of the people abandoned by their own God. Interestingly, during the siege of Jerusalem, the Romans painted catapults black so that the Jews could not follow their flight.

1291
Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England.

1497
Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.

1503
Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.

1655
England, with troops under the command of Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain.

1775
American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.

1775
American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the Thirteen Colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

1801
First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.

1837
Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.

1864
American Civil War: Colonel Emory Upton leads a 10-regiment “Attack-in-depth” assault against the Confederate works at The Battle of Spotsylvania, which, though ultimately unsuccessful, would provide the idea for the massive assault against the Bloody Angle on May 12. Upton is slightly wounded but is immediately promoted to Brigadier general.

1865
American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.

1865
American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.

1869
The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.

1893
The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.

1924
J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.

1940
World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1941
World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.

1969
Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.

330 CE
A new imperial residence was consecrated in Constantinople. The celebrations lasted 14 days, the Christian ceremonial mixed with a pagan one. The local Senate was considered to be lower-ranking.

1310
In France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics.

1502
Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.

1647
Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.

1792
Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River.

1812
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London.

1820
Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.

1846
President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War.

1857
Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.

1862
American Civil War: The ironclad Ship CSS is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia.

1880
Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.

World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.

1953
The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.

1960
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.

1862 ~ CSS Virginia is scuttled off Craney Island when her magazine is detonated.

1925 ~ Lorenzo Pietro Berra - Gunners Mate/Normandy - 18 All Star Games as catcher - All time record for shut outs caught/173

Lone Gunman wrote:70 CE
The Romans began the siege of Jerusalem during so-called Jewish war. Jerusalem, having three walls, of which the inner was the strongest and the most durable, seemed to be unassailable. The Romans spent four months fighting for the city to get it on August 29. Joseph claimed that 1 100, 000 people were killed during the siege, the majority of whom were Jews. 97 000 Jews were captured and enslaved, including Simon bar Giora and John of Giscala. Many fled to areas around the Mediterranean. According to Philostratus, Titus reportedly refused to accept the victory, as he had no merit in the victory of the people abandoned by their own God. Interestingly, during the siege of Jerusalem, the Romans painted catapults black so that the Jews could not follow their flight.

1291
Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England.

1497
Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.

1503
Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.

1655
England, with troops under the command of Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain.

1775
American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.

1775
American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the Thirteen Colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

1801
First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.

1837
Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.

1864
American Civil War: Colonel Emory Upton leads a 10-regiment “Attack-in-depth” assault against the Confederate works at The Battle of Spotsylvania, which, though ultimately unsuccessful, would provide the idea for the massive assault against the Bloody Angle on May 12. Upton is slightly wounded but is immediately promoted to Brigadier general.

1865
American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.

1865
American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.

1869
The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.

1893
The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.

1924
J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.

1940
World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1941
World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.

1969
Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.

""1291
Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England.""

If only it was that simple lol

1962 ~ Loc Ness Monster swallows Veges dog Rolly.

jirqoadai wrote:1962 ~ Loc Ness Monster swallows Veges dog Rolly.

LOL, Pity the hook didnt catch,,

113 CE
In Rome, the Trajan’s Column was dedicated. It was erected in 113 CE in Rome in Trajan’s Forum to commemorate the victory over the Dacians. Designed probably by Apollodorus of Damascus. Trajan ordered to put an eagle at the top of the column. After his death, by the order of Hadrian, the eagle was replaced with the statue of Trajan, who after 392 CE was removed by Christians. It was not until 1587 when a statue of Saint Peter was put on top instead and it remains there to this very day.

303
Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the beheading of the 14-year-old Pancras of Rome.

1551
National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.

1780
American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.

1862
U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

1863
American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson’s XVII Corps (ACW) turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton’s defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.

1864
American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in “the Bloody Angle”.

1865
American Civil War: the Battle of Palmito Ranch: the first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.

1932
Ten weeks after his abduction Charles Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs’ home.

1935
Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling.

1937
George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

1941
Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world’s first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.

1942
World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: in eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.

1949
The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.

1975
Mayagüez incident: the Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.

2003
The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26 people.

2006
Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country.

1568
Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.

1780
The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.

1787
Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the “First Fleet”) to establish a penal colony in Australia.

1804
Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.

1846
Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.

1861
American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a “proclamation of neutrality” which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.

1864
American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta, Georgia.

1865
American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – in far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.

1912
The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) is established in the United Kingdom.

1917
Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.

1939
The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.

1940
World War II: Germany’s conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his “blood, toil, tears, and sweat” speech to the House of Commons.

1943
World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.

1958
The trade mark Velcro is registered.

1989
Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.