Today in history 10/13/2020

Today in history, Nero succeeds his great uncle Claudius, who was murdered by his wife, as the new emperor of Rome in 0054.

Today in history, Members of the Knights of Templar are arrested throughout France, imprisoned and tortured by the order of King Philip the Fair of France in 1307.

Today in history, Henry IV of England is crowned in 1399.

Today in history, The Continental Congress authorizes construction of two warships, thus instituting an American naval force in 1775.

Today in history, Benedict Arnold is defeated at Lake Champlain in 1776.

Today in history, President George Washington (see picture below) lays the cornerstone for the White House in 1792.

Today in history, The California state constitution, which prohibits slavery, is signed in Monterey in 1849.

Today in history, Boston defeats Pittsburgh in baseball’s first World Series in 1903.

Today in history, Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams is published in 1904.

Today in history, First appearance of Paddington Bear (see picture below), now a beloved icon of children’s literature in 1958.

Today in history, First game of the fledgling American Basketball Association; Oakland Oaks beat Anaheim Amigos 134-129 in Oakland, Cal. in 1967

Today in history, After being underground for a record 69 days, all 33 miners trapped in a Copiapo, Chile, mine are rescued in 2010.

Today in history 7/21/2020

7/21/2017:

Today in history, Henry IV defeats the Percys in the Battle of Shrewsbury in England in 1403.

Today in history, The Peace of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War and cedes Dutch New Amsterdam to the English in 1667.

Today in history, Russia and Turkey sign the Treaty of Pruth, ending the year-long Russo-Turkish War in 1711.

Today in history, In the first major battle of the Civil War, Confederate forces defeat the Union Army along Bull Run near Manassas Junction, Virginia. The battle becomes known as Manassas by the Confederates, while the Union calls it Bull Run in 1861.

Today in history, Wild Bill Hickok kills gunman Dave Tutt in Springfield, Missouri, in what is regarded as the first formal quick-draw duel in 1865.

Today in history, The James Gang (see picture below) robs a train in Adair, Iowa in 1873.

Today in history, Mary Church Terrell founds the National Association of Colored Women in Washington, D.C. in 1896.

Today in history, John Scopes is found guilty for teaching evolution in Dayton, Tenn., and is fined $100 in 1925.

Today in history, Sirimavo Bandaranaike (see picture below) becomes the first woman prime minister of Ceylon in 1960.

Today in history 6/5/2020

Today in history, Members of the First Crusade witness an eclipse of the moon and interpret it as a sign they will recapture Jerusalem in 1099.

Today in history, Henry IV’s army defeats the Spanish at the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise in 1595.

Today in history, Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier (see picture below) make the first public balloon flight in 1783.

Today in history, Harriet Beecher Stowe (see picture below) publishes the first installment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in The National Era in 1851.

Today in history, The Republican National Convention, the first major political party convention to include blacks, commences in 1872.

Today in history, The first B-29 bombing raid strikes the Japanese rail line in Bangkok, Thailand in 1944.

Today in history, Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines “The Marshall Plan,” a program intended to assist European nations, including former enemies, to rebuild their economies in 1947.

Today in history, The Six-Day War (see picture below) between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan begins in 1967.

Today in history, Doris A. Davis (see picture below) becomes the first African-American woman to govern a city in a major metropolitan area when she is elected mayor of Compton, California in 1973.

Today in history 3/20/2020

Today in history, Henry IV of England is succeeded by his son Henry V in 1413.

Today in history, The Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings in 1760.

Today in history, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue (see picture below), considered the first detective story, is published in 1841.

Today in history, Harriet Beecher Stowe‘s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (see picture below) is published in 1852.

Today in history, The USS Langley is commissioned as the first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. Converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (AC-3), it is the Navy’s first turbo-electric-powered ship in 1922.

Today in history, The German dirigible, Graf Zepplin, makes the first flight to South America on regular schedule in 1932..

Today in history, President Lyndon B. Johnson orders 4,000 troops to protect the Selma-Montgomery civil rights marchers in 1965.

Today in history, U.S. scientists return from Antarctica with the first land mammal fossils found there in 1982.

Today in history 7/21/2017

7/21/2017:

Today in history, Henry IV defeats the Percys in the Battle of Shrewsbury in England in 1403.

Today in history, The Peace of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War and cedes Dutch New Amsterdam to the English in 1667.

Today in history, Russia and Turkey sign the Treaty of Pruth, ending the year-long Russo-Turkish War in 1711.

Today in history, In the first major battle of the Civil War, Confederate forces defeat the Union Army along Bull Run near Manassas Junction, Virginia. The battle becomes known as Manassas by the Confederates, while the Union calls it Bull Run in 1861.

Today in history, Wild Bill Hickok (see picture below) kills gunman Dave Tutt in Springfield, Missouri, in what is regarded as the first formal quick-draw duel in 1865.

Today in history, The James Gang (see picture below) robs a train in Adair, Iowa in 1873.

Today in history, Mary Church Terrell (see picture below) founds the National Association of Colored Women in Washington, D.C. in 1896.

Today in history, John Scopes is found guilty for teaching evolution in Dayton, Tenn., and is fined $100 in 1925.

Today in history, Sirimavo Bandaranaike (see picture below) becomes the first woman prime minister of Ceylon in 1960.