1553 | The Sadians defeat the last of their enemies and establish themselves as rulers of Morocco. | |
1561 | Philip II of Spain gives orders to halt colonizing efforts in Florida. | |
1577 | William of Orange makes his triumphant entry into Brussels, Belgium. | |
1667 | Slaves in Virginia are banned from obtaining their freedom by converting to Christianity. | |
1739 | The Austrians sign the Treaty of Belgrade after having lost the city to the Turks. | |
1779 | The American navy under John Paul Jones, commanding from Bonhomme Richard, defeats and captures the British man-of-war Serapis. | |
1788 | Louis XVI of France declares the Parliament restored. | |
1795 | A national plebiscite approves the new French constitution, but so many voters sustain that the results are suspect. | |
1803 | British Major General Sir Arthur Wellesley defeats the Marathas at Assaye, India. | |
1805 | Lieutenant Zebulon Pike pays $2,000 to buy from the Sioux a 9-square-mile tract at the mouth of the Minnesota River that will be used to establish a military post, Fort Snelling. | |
1806 | The Lewis and Clark Expedition arrives back in St. Louis just over three years after its departure. | |
1864 | Confederate and Union forces clash at Mount Jackson, Front Royal and Woodstock in Virginia during the Valley campaign. | |
1911 | The Second International Aviation Meet opens in New York. | |
1912 | Mack Sennet's first "Keystone Cop" film debuts, Cohen Collects a Debt. | |
1945 | The first American dies in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon to French forces. | |
1952 | Richard Nixon responds to charges of a secret slush fund during his 'Checkers Speech.' | |
1954 | East German police arrest 400 citizens as U.S. spies. | |
1967 | Soviets sign a pact to send more aid to Hanoi. | |
1973 | Juan Peron is re-elected president of Argentina after being overthrown in 1955. | |
1983 | Gerrie Coetzee (Gerhardus Coetzee), boxer from South Africa; first boxer from the African continent to win a world heavyweight tittle (World Boxing Association). | |
1983 | Gulf Air Flight 771 from Karachi, Pakistan, to Abu Dhabi, UAE, bombed; all 117 aboard die. | |
1992 | Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates 3,700-lb. bomb in Belfast, completely destroying the Northern Ireland forensic laboratory, injuring 20 people and damaging 700 houses. | |
2002 | The first public version of Mozilla Firefox browser released; originally called Phoenix 0.1 its name was changed due to trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies. | |
2004 | Hurricane Jeanne causes severe flooding in Haiti; over 1,000 reported dead. |
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Today in History
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