1413 | | Henry IV of England is succeed by his son Henry V. |
1739 | | In India, Nadir Shah of Persia occupies Delhi and takes possession of the Peacock throne. |
1760 | | The Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings. |
1792 | | In Paris, the Legislative Assembly approves the use of the guillotine. |
1815 | | Napoleon Bonaparte enters Paris and begins his 100-day rule. |
1841 | | Edgar Allen Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, considered the first detective story, is published. |
1852 | | Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published. |
1906 | | Army officers in Russia mutiny at Sevastopol. |
1915 | | The French call off the Champagne offensive on the Western Front. |
1918 | | The Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union ask for American aid to rebuild their army. |
1922 | | President Warren G. Harding orders U.S. troops back from the Rhineland. |
1932 | | The German dirigible, Graf Zepplin, makes the first flight to South America on regular schedule. |
1939 | | President Franklin D. Roosevelt names William O. Douglas to the Supreme Court. |
1940 | | The British Royal Air Force conducts an all-night air raid on the Nazi airbase at Sylt, Germany. |
1943 | | The Allies attack Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's forces on the Mareth Line in North Africa. |
1965 | | President Lyndon B. Johnson orders 4,000 troops to protect the Selma-Montgomery civil rights marchers. |
1969 | | Senator Edward Kennedy calls on the United States to close all bases in Taiwan. |
1976 | | Patty Hearst is convicted of armed robbery. |
1982 | | U.S. scientists return from Antarctica with the first land mammal fossils found there. |
1987 | | The United State approves AZT, a drug that is proven to slow the progress of AIDS. |
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