On This Day in History II

1264
Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.

1607
Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.

1643
Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.

1787
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.

1796
Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.

1804
The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.

1863
American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.

1939
Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.

1940
World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.

1940
World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.

1943
A Japanese submarine sinks Ship AHS off the coast of Queensland.

1948
Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

1973
Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched.

1943 ~ Australian Hospital Ship Centaur ~ sunk by jap military action -  in hospital ship paint scheme - 268 of 332 died. supposedly alot of nurses.

this is the ship that saved alot of germans off the Kormoran after the Sidney sank it.

Lina Medina was born in 1933 in Ticrapo, Castrovirreyna Province, Peru,[2] to parents Tiburelo Medina, a silversmith, and Victoria Losea.[4] She was one of nine children.[2]

Her parents took her to a hospital in Pisco at age five due to increasing abdominal size.[5] Doctors originally thought she had a tumor but then determined that she was in her seventh month of pregnancy. Dr Gerardo Lozada had specialists in Lima confirm the pregnancy.[1]

She was immediately contacted by the Democrat Party in the US and told to cross the border at midnight where she was made a citizen and given the right to vote at age 5

1969 - Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson - birthday

Lone Gunman wrote:

Not a bad package

495 BCE
The temple of Mercury was built in the Circus Maximus.

218 CE
III legio in the camp at Emesa proclaimed Elagabalus the emperor, Caracalla’s alleged son. The mother and grandmother of Varius Avitus Bassianus (his full name) convinced the military units stationed in the East (with money) that he was actually the son of Caracalla. The army moved against the praetorian prefect – Macrinus, who was not in estimation. To strengthen the legitimization of his power, Elagabalus adopted the names of Caracalla: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.

1204
Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.

1527
The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.

1532
Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.

1568
Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.

1770
14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.

1771
The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The “Regulators”, occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.

1843
The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.

1868
President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.

1918
The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense.

1951
The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.

1966
The Communist Party of China issues the “May 16 Notice”, marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

2003
In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.

1521
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.

1536
George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason.

1673
Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.

1775
American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Quebec.

1792
The New York Stock Exchange is formed.

1849
A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.

1869
Imperial Japanese forces defeat the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Battle of Hakodate to end the Boshin War.

1875
Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.

1939
The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States’ first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.

1940
World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.

1943
The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School to develop the ENIAC.

1943
World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.

1954
The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

1970
Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.

1973
Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.

1974
Dublin and Monaghan bombings: Thirty-three civilians are killed when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) explodes car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland.

1974
Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army’s headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.