756 | Abd-al-Rahman is proclaimed emir of Cordoba, Spain. | |
1213 | King John submits to the Pope, offering to make England and Ireland papal fiefs. Pope Innocent III lifts the interdict of 1208. | |
1602 | English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold discovers Cape Cod. | |
1614 | An aristocratic uprising in France ends with treaty of St. Menehould. | |
1618 | Johannes Kepler discovers his harmonics law. | |
1702 | The War of Spanish Succession begins. | |
1730 | Following the resignation of Lord Townshend, Robert Walpole becomes the sole minister in the English cabinet. | |
1768 | By the Treaty of Versailles, France purchases Corsica from Genoa. | |
1795 | Napoleon enters the Lombardian capital of Milan in triumph. | |
1820 | The U.S. Congress designates the slave trade a form of piracy. | |
1849 | Neapolitan troops enter Palermo, Sicily. | |
1862 | The Union ironclad Monitor and the gunboat Galena fire on Confederate troops at the Battle of Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. | |
1864 | At the Battle of New Market, Virginia Military Institute cadets repel a Union attack. | |
1886 | Emily Dickinson dies in Amherst, Mass., where she had lived in seclusion for the previous 24 years. | |
1916 | U.S. Marines land in Santo Domingo to quell civil disorder. | |
1918 | Pfc. Henry Johnson and Pfc. Needham Roberts receive the Croix de Guerre for their services in World War I. They are the first Americans to win France's highest military medal. | |
1930 | Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess. | |
1942 | The United States begins rationing gasoline. | |
1958 | Sputnik III is launched by the Soviet Union. | |
1963 | The last Project Mercury space flight, carrying Gordon Cooper, is launched. | |
1968 | U.S. Marines relieve army troops in Nhi Ha, South Vietnam after a fourteen-day battle. | |
1972 | George Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland. | |
1975 | The merchant ship Mayaguez is recaptured from Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. | |
1988 | Soviets forces begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan. |
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Thursday, May 15, 2014
Today in History
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