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Today in Military History
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Born
| 1797 | Silas Horton Stringham, naval officer, U.S., d. 1876 |
Died
| 8 | BC Maecenas, friend to Augustus, patron of Vergil & Horace | | 1225 | St. Engelbert I, Archbishop of Cologne, murdered | | 1307 | Hermann Gessler, Hapsburg Governor of Switerland, shot by William Tell | | 1837 | Elijah P Lovejoy, publisher, murdered at 34 by a pro-slavery mob | | 1944 | Richard Sorge & Ozaki, Soviet spies, hanged in Tokyo | | 1962 | Eleanor Roosevelt, FLOTUS (1933-1945), at 78 | | 1980 | Steve McQueen, actor ("The Sand Pebbles", "The Great Escape"), at 50 |
Event
| 63 | BC “O Tempora, O Mores!” - Cicero denounces Catiline in the Senate | | 1307 | William Tell reputedly does his thing [Old Style] | | 1500 | Cesare Borgia captures Brighella | | 1559 | Peace of the Pyrennes between France & Spain; Italian Wars (1494-1559) finally end | | 1637 | Anne Hutchinson is banished from Massachusetts for heresy | | 1793 | French Revolution abolishes Christianity in favor of "Reason" | | 1811 | Battle of Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison defeats Tecumseh | | 1861 | Battle of Port Royal Bay/Ft Walker/Ft Beauregard, SC | | 1861 | Grant's First Battle: Belmont, Mo. | | 1863 | Battle of Rappahannock Station & Kelly's Ford, Va. | | 1865 | CSS Shenandoah surrenders to British authorities at Liverpool, seven months after Appomattox | | 1872 | Ship Marie Celeste sails from New York, bound for mystery | | 1914 | Japan attacks German concession at Tsing-tao, China | | 1917 | Battle of Beersheba: British take Gaza from the Turks, on the third try | | 1918 | United Press erroneously reports an armistice has been signed | | 1931 | Mao Tse-Tung proclaims the Chinese People's Republic | | 1936 | Spanish Civil War: Battle for Madrid begins | | 1942 | FDR broadcasts to the French; first presidential address in a foreign language | | 1944 | Chinese New 22nd Div takes Shwego in northern Burma. | | 1954 | US spy plane shot down by Russians over Sea of Japan | | 1973 | The War Powers Act becomes law | | 1983 | Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries |
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