1129 | The warrior Yoritomo is made Shogun without equal in Japan. | |
1525 | Estavao Gomes returns to Portugal after failing to find a clear waterway to Asia. | |
1794 | France surrenders the island of Corsica to the British. | |
1808 | Napoleon Bonaparte's General Junot is defeated by Wellington at the first Battle of the Peninsular War at Vimiero, Portugal. | |
1831 | Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia that kills close to 60 whites. | |
1858 | The first of a series of debates begins between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Douglas goes on to win the Senate seat in November, but Lincoln gains national visibility for the first time. | |
1863 | Confederate raiders under William Quantrill strike Lawrence, Kansas, leaving 150 civilians dead. | |
1864 | Confederate General A.P. Hill attacks Union troops south of Petersburg, Va., at the Weldon railroad. His attack is repulsed, resulting in heavy Confederate casualties. | |
1915 | Italy declares war on Turkey. | |
1942 | U.S. Marines turn back the first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal in the Battle of Tenaru. | |
1944 | The Dumbarton Oaks conference, which lays the foundation for the establishment of the United Nations, is held in Washington, D.C. | |
1945 | President Harry S. Truman cancels all contracts under the Lend-Lease Act. | |
1959 | Hawaii is admitted into the Union. | |
1963 | The South Vietnamese Army arrests over 100 Buddhist monks in Saigon. | |
1968 | Soviet forces invade Czechoslovakia because of the country's experiments with a more liberal government. | |
1996 | The new Globe theater opens in England. |
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Today in History
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