1689 | England's "Bloodless Revolution" reaches its climax when parliament invites William and Mary to become joint sovereigns. | |
1807 | President Thomas Jefferson exposes a plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest. | |
1813 | During the War of 1812, British forces under Henry Proctor defeat a U.S. contingent planning an attack on Fort Detroit. | |
1824 | A British force is wiped out by an Asante army under Osei Bonsu on the African Gold Coast. This is the first defeat for a colonial power. | |
1863 | In an attempt to out flank Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, General Ambrose Burnside leads his army on a march to north Fredericksburg, but foul weather bogs his army down in what will become known as "Mud March." | |
1879 | Eighty-two British soldiers hold off attacks by 4,000 Zulu warriors at the Battle of Rorke's Drift in South Africa. | |
1905 | Russian troops fire on civilians beginning Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg. | |
1912 | Second Monte Carlo auto race begins. | |
1913 | Turkey consents to the Balkan peace terms and gives up Adrianople. | |
1930 | Admiral Richard Byrd charts a vast area of Antarctica. | |
1932 | Government troops crush a Communist uprising in Northern Spain. | |
1939 | A Nazi order erases the old officer caste, tying the army directly to the Party. | |
1943 | Axis forces pull out of Tripoli for Tunisia, destroying bases as they leave. | |
1944 | U.S. troops under Major General John P. Lucas make an amphibious landing behind German lines at Anzio, Italy, just south of Rome. | |
1971 | Communist forces shell Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for the first time. | |
1979 | Abu Hassan, the alleged planner of the 1972 Munich raid, is killed by a bomb in Beirut. | |
1982 | President Ronald Reagan formally links progress in arms control to Soviet repression in Poland. |
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
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