| 69 |
|
Vespians's supporters enter Rome and discover Vitellius
in hiding. He is dragged through the streets before being brutally murdered. |
| 1355 |
|
Stephen Urosh IV of Serbia dies while marching to
attack Constantinople. |
| 1802 |
|
The United States buys the Louisiana territory from
France. |
| 1860 |
|
South Carolina secedes from the Union. |
| 1861 |
|
English transports loaded with 8,000 troops set
sail for Canada so that troops are available if the "Trent Affair" is not settled
without war. |
| 1924 |
|
Adolf Hitler is released from prison after serving
less than one year of a five year sentence for treason. |
| 1930 |
|
Thousands of Spaniards sign a revolutionary manifesto. |
| 1933 |
|
The German government announces 400,000 citizens
are to be sterilized because of hereditary defects. |
| 1938 |
|
First electronic television system is patented. |
| 1941 |
|
The Flying Tigers, American pilots in China, enter
combat against the Japanese over Kunming. |
| 1943 |
|
Soviet forces halt a German army trying to relieve
the besieged city of Stalingrad. |
| 1946 |
|
Viet Minh and French forces fight fiercely in Annamite
section of Hanoi. |
| 1948 |
|
U.S. Supreme Court announces that it has no jurisdiction
to hear the appeals of Japanese war criminals sentenced by the International Military
Tribunal. |
| 1960 |
|
National Liberation Front is formed by guerrillas
fighting the Diem regime in South Vietnam. |
| 1962 |
|
In its first free election in 38 years, the Dominican
Republic chooses leftist Juan Bosch Gavino as president. |
| 1963 |
|
Four thousand cross the Berlin Wall to visit relatives
under a 17-day Christmas accord. |
| 1989 |
|
U.S. troops invade Panama to oust General Manuel
Noriega and replace him with Guillermo Endara. |
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