1244 | Turks expel the crusaders under Frederick II from Jerusalem. | |
1305 | Scottish patriot William Wallace is hanged, drawn, beheaded, and quartered in London. | |
1541 | Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec on his third voyage to North America. | |
1711 | A British attempt to invade Canada by sea fails. | |
1775 | King George III of England refuses the American colonies' offer of peace and declares them in open rebellion. | |
1821 | After 11 years of war, Spain grants Mexican independence as a constitutional monarchy. | |
1863 | Union batteries cease their first bombardment of Fort Sumter, leaving it a mass of rubble but still unconquered by the Northern besiegers. | |
1900 | Booker T. Washington forms the National Negro Business League in Boston, Massachusetts. | |
1902 | Fanny Farmer, among the first to emphasize the relationship of diet to health, opens her School of Cookery in Boston. | |
1914 | The Emperor of Japan declares war on Germany. | |
1926 | American film star Rudolph Valentino dies, causing world-wide hysteria and a number of suicides. | |
1927 | Immigrant laborers Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for a robbery they did not commit. Fifty years later, in 1977, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis establishes a memorial in the victims' honor. | |
1939 | Joseph Stalin and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop sign a non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany, freeing Hitler to invade Poland and Stalin to invade Finland. | |
1942 | German forces begin an assault on the major Soviet industrial city of Stalingrad. | |
1944 | German SS engineers begin placing explosive charges around the Eiffel Tower in Paris. | |
1950 | Up to 77,000 members of the U.S. Army Organized Reserve Corps are called involuntarily to active duty to fight the Korean War. |
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Today in History
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