On This Day in History II

1943 - the mascot dog Nigger is not taken on any of the missions.

1937 - Brooks Calbert Robinson Jr. - birthday ( he threw batters out from third base while sitting down )

14 CE
Augustus sent Caligula to his father Germanicus residing in Gaul or Germania.

113 CE
Trajan’s Forum in Rome was opened. It is the largest (a square with dimensions of approx. 300 by 185 meters) and the latest constructed Roman forum in the vicinity of the Forum of Augustus and the Forum of Caesar, between the Capitoline and Quirinal Hill. Its founder was Trajan, and the designer Apollodorus of Damascus.

332 CE
Constantine the Great announced the distribution of food to the people of Constantinople.

1152
Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.

1268
The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch.

1498
Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut, India.

1593
Playwright Thomas Kyd’s accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.

1652
Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.

1756
The Seven Years’ War begins when Great Britain declares war on France.

1763
Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec.

1804
Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.

1860
Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.

1863
American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.

1910
The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.

1917
World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.

1927
The Bath School Disaster: forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.

1933
New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.

1955
Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.

1965
Israeli spy Eli Cohen was hanged in Damascus, Syria.

1969
Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.

1980
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.

1995
Shawn Nelson, 35, goes on a tank rampage in San Diego.

1860 - first partial black ( 1/2 ) placed on a party ticket for the US presidential election - ( his father had the mumps and his mother banged a favorite slave )

363 CE
The city of Petra in Jordan was destroyed by an earthquake. The earthquake caused many destructions [sic] and contributed to the significant depopulation of the city.

1499
Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.

1535
French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona’s two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).

1536
Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.

1568
Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.

1643
Thirty Years’ War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.

749
King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.

1776
American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.

1780
New England’s Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.

1848
Mexican-American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million.

1864
American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.

1921
The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.

1943
World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the Normandy landings (“D-Day”). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather.

1950
A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.

1959
The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.

1962
A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe’s rendition of “Happy Birthday”.

1986
The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

325 CE
The First Council of Nicaea was organized, the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held; Arianism was condemned, the Nicene Creed was established and a dispute over the date of Easter was resolved.

526
An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia.

1497
John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Ship looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).

1498
Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.

1570
Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.

1609
Shakespeare’s sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.

1631
The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years’ War.

1802
By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution

1813
Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.

1861
American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the Union.

1862
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.

1864
American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church – in the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.

1873
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.

1883
Krakatoa begins to erupt. The volcano’s final and most notable explosion occurs on August 26.

1891
History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope.

1902
Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country’s first President.

1920
Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.

1927
At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world’s first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.

948
Chiang Kai-shek elected to be the first President of the Republic of China.

1949
In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.

1956
In Operation Redwing (shot Cherokee), the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean;

1969
The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.

1989
The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.

1969 - Dong Ap Bia massif was a block point that had to be captured in the western A Sau Valley in order to continue to decimate the PAVN 6th, 9th and 29th reg. from the attacks during operation Dewey Canyon by forces of the United States Marines. operation Apache Snow utilized attacking forces by the 3bt 287th US Inf, 2bt 501 US Inf and 1Bt 506 US Inf. also participating were the 9th Rg USMC, 3rd Sq 5th US Cav, 2nd + 4th Bt of 1st Inf Div, and elements of the 3rd Rg ARVN

jirqoadai wrote:1969 - Dong Ap Bia massif was a block point that had to be captured in the western A Sau Valley in order to continue to decimate the PAVN 6th, 9th and 29th reg. from the attacks during operation Dewey Canyon by forces of the United States Marines. operation Apache Snow utilized attacking forces by the 3bt 287th US Inf, 2bt 501 US Inf and 1Bt 506 US Inf. also participating were the 9th Rg USMC, 3rd Sq 5th US Cav, 2nd + 4th Bt of 1st Inf Div, and elements of the 3rd Rg ARVN

yet by 28 may, we abandoned it and the dinks were back on it a month later.

<shrug>

120 BCE
Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar, was born. Her husband was the praetor Gaius Julius Caesar the Elder, with whom she had three children: Julia Caesaris Major, ulia Caesaris Minor and the well-known Gaius Julius Caesar. Pliny the Elder tells us that Julius Caesar would come to the world thanks to c-section. The fact is that Caesar’s mother died in 54 BCE 10 years before her son’s death, and according to the law, this operation was used when a pregnant woman had died. Roman law forbade the burial of a pregnant woman without taking her fetus out of her womb. This name derives from the word caedere, which means to cut.

293 CE
Emperor Diocletian and his companion in the West, Maximizes appointed Galerius the Caesat. This way, they started tetrarchy.

878
Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.

1502
The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese explorer João da Nova.

1725
The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.

1809
The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.

1851
Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.

1856
Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.

1863
American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.

1871
French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of “Bloody Week” some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.

1881
The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.

1894
The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.

1904
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.

1911
Mexican President Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, and thus concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.

1917
The Great Atlanta fire of 1917.

1924
University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a “thrill killing”.

1927
Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world’s first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

1932
Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

1936
Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover’s severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan’s most notorious scandals.

1937
A Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.

1966
The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.

1979
White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.

1982
Falklands War: British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton lead to the Battle of San Carlos.

334 BC
The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.

337 CE
Emperor Constantine the Great died in Nicomedia. The corpse was brought to Constantinople and placed in a sarcophagus in the Church of the Holy Apostles.

1455
Wars of the Roses: at the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.

1762
Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.

1807
A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.

1809
On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna), Napoleon is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.

1819
The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool, England on June 20.

1826
HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.

1840
The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.

1843
Thousands of people and their cattle head west via wagon train from Independence, Missouri to what would later become the Oregon Territory. It is part of the Great Migration. They follow what is now known as the Oregon Trail.

1848
Slavery is abolished in Martinique.

1856
Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (“Bleeding Kansas”).

1863
American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson – Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.

1871
The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.

1872
Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.

1903
Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.

1906
The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine”.

1915
Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century.

1939
World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.

1942
Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.

1942
The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed.

1942
World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.

1960
An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.

1968
The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.

1969
Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon’s surface.