1742 | | A Spanish force invading Georgia runs headlong into the colony's British defenders.The battle decides the fate of a colony. |
1777 | | American troops give up Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, to the British. |
1791 | | Benjamin Rush, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones found the Non-denominational African Church. |
1795 | | Thomas Paine defends the principal of universal suffrage at the Constitutional Convention in Paris. |
1798 | | Napoleon Bonaparte's army begins its march towards Cairo from Alexandria. |
1807 | | Czar Alexander meets with Napoleon Bonaparte. |
1814 | | Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverly is published anonymously so as not to damage his reputation as a poet. |
1815 | | After defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the victorious Allies march into Paris. |
1853 | | Japan opens its ports to trade with the West after 250 years of isolation. |
1863 | | Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in Hagerstown, Maryland, reports his defeat at Gettysburg to President Jefferson Davis. |
1905 | | The International Workers of the World found their labor organization in Chicago. |
1925 | | Afrikaans is recognized as one of the official languages of South Africa, along with English and Dutch. |
1927 | | Christopher Stone becomes the first British 'disc jockey' when he plays records for the BBC. |
1941 | | Although a neutral country, the United States sends troops to occupy Iceland to keep it out of Germany's hands. |
1943 | | Adolf Hitler makes the V-2 missile program a top priority in armament planning. |
1966 | | The U.S. Marine Corps launches Operation Hasting to drive the North Vietnamese Army back across the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam. |
1969 | | The first U.S. units to withdraw from South Vietnam leave Saigon. |
1981 | | Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. |
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