Today in History

1540		Henry VIII of England marries Catherine Howard.
1615		French explorer Samuel de Champlain discovers Lake Huron on his seventh voyage to the New World.
1794		Robespierre is beheaded in France.
1808		Sultan Mustapha of the Ottoman Empire is deposed and his cousin Mahmud II gains the throne.
1835		King Louis-Philippe of France survives an assassination attempt.
1863		Confederate John Mosby begins a series of attacks against General Meade's Army of the Potomac.
1868		The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees citizenship to all those born or naturalized in the United States, is adopted.
1898		Spain, through the offices of the French embassy in Washington, D.C., requests peace terms in its war with the United States.
1914		Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning World War I.
1920		Pancho Villa surrenders to the Mexican government.
1932		The Bonus Army of impoverished World War I veterans is violently pushed out of Washington, D.C.
1941		A Japanese army lands on the coast of Cochin, China (modern day Vietnam).
1945		A B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building in New York City, killing 13 people.
1965		President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 50,000 troops to South Vietnam.