1626 | The Danes are crushed by the Catholic League in Germany, marking the end of Danish intervention in European wars. | |
1776 | The Americans are defeated by the British at the Battle of Long Island, New York. | |
1793 | Maximilien Robespierre is elected to the Committee of Public Safety in Paris, France. | |
1813 | The Allies defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Dresden. | |
1861 | Union troops make an amphibious landing at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. | |
1862 | As the Second Battle of Bull Run rages, Confederate soldiers attack Loudoun County, Virginia. | |
1881 | New York state's Pure Food Law goes into effect to prevent "the adulteration of food or drugs." | |
1894 | The United States congress passes an income tax law as part of a general tariff act, but it is found unconstitutional. | |
1910 | Thomas Edison demonstrates the first "talking" pictures–using a phonograph–in his New Jersey laboratory. | |
1912 | Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes first appears in a magazine. | |
1916 | Italy declares war on Germany. | |
1928 | Fifteen nations sign the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, outlawing war and calling for the settlement of disputes through arbitration. Forty-seven other countries eventually sign the pact. | |
1941 | The Prime Minister of Japan, Fumimaro Konoye, issues an invitation for a meeting with President Roosevelt. | |
1945 | B-29 Superfortress bombers begin to drop supplies into Allied prisoner of war camps in China. | |
1963 | Cambodia severs ties with South Vietnam. | |
1979 | Lord Mountbatten is killed by an Irish terrorist bomb in his sail boat in Sligo, Ireland. | |
1989 | Chuck Berry performs his tune Johnny B. Goode for NASA staff in celebration of Voyager II's encounter with the planet Neptune. |
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Monday, August 27, 2012
Today in History
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