1626 | | Huguenot rebels and the French sign the Peace of La Rochelle. |
1778 | | France recognizes the United States and signs a treaty of aid in Paris. |
1788 | | Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the Constitution. |
1862 | | The Battle of Fort Henry, Tenn., begins the Mississippi Valley campaign. |
1891 | | The Dalton Gang commits its first crime, a train robbery in Alila, Calif. |
1899 | | The Spanish-American War ends. |
1900 | | President McKinley appoints W.H. Taft commissioner to report on the Philippines. |
1904 | | Japan's foreign minister severs all ties with Russia, citing delaying tactics in negotiations over Manchuria. |
1916 | | Germany admits full liability for Lusitania incident and recognizes the United State's right to claim indemnity. |
1922 | | The Washington Disarmament Conference comes to an end with signature of final treaty forbidding fortification of the Aleutian Islands for 14 years. |
1926 | |
Mussolini warns Germany to stop agitation in
Tyrol. |
1929 | | Germany accepts Kellogg-Briand pact. |
1933 | | Adolf Hitler's Third Reich begins press censorship. |
1936 | | Adolf Hitler opens the Fourth Winter Olympics. |
1941 | | The RAF clears the way as British take Benghazi, trapping thousands of Italians. |
1944 | | Kwajalein Island in the Central Pacific falls to U.S. Army troops. |
1945 | | MacArthur reports the fall of Manila, and the liberation of 5,000 prisoners. |
1963 | | The United States reports that all Soviet offensive arms are out of Cuba. |
1964 | | Cuba blocks the water supply to Guantanamo Naval Base in rebuke of the United State's seizure of four Cuban fishing boats. |
1964 | | Paris and London agree to build a rail tunnel under the English Channel. |
1965 | |
Seven U.S. GIs are killed in a Viet Cong raid
on a base in Pleiku. |
1968 | | Charles de Gaulle opens the 19th Winter Olympics in France. |
1975 | | President Gerald Ford asks Congress for $497 million in aid to Cambodia. |
1977 | | Queen Elizabeth marks her Silver Jubilee. |
1982 | | Civil rights workers begin a march from Carrolton to Montgomery, Alabama. |
|