1492
Forces under King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella take the town of Granada, the last Moorish kingdom in Spain.
1758
The French begin bombardment of Madras, India.
1839
Photography pioneer Louis Daguerre takes the first photograph of the moon.
1861
The USS Brooklyn is readied at Norfolk to aid Fort Sumter.
1863
In the second day of hard fighting at Stone's River, near Murfreesboro, Tenn., Union troops defeat the Confederates.
1903
President Theodore Roosevelt closes a post office in Indianola, Mississippi, for refusing to hire a Black postmistress.
1904
U.S. Marines are sent to Santo Domingo to aid the government against rebel forces.
1905
After a six-month siege, Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese.
1918
Russian Bolsheviks threaten to re-enter the war unless Germany returns occupied territory.
1932
Japanese forces in Manchuria set up a puppet government known as Manchukuo.
1936
In Berlin, Nazi officials claim that their treatment of Jews is not the business of the League of Nations.
1942
In the Philippines, the city of Manila and the U.S. Naval base at Cavite fall to Japanese forces.
1943
The Allies capture Buna in New Guinea.
1963
In Vietnam, the Viet Cong down five U.S. helicopters in the Mekong Delta. 30 Americans are reported dead.
1966
American G.I.s move into the Mekong Delta for the first time.
1973
The United States admits the accidental bombing of a Hanoi hospital.
1980
President Jimmy Carter asks the U.S. Senate to delay the arms treaty ratification in response to Soviet action in Afghanistan.
1981
British police arrest the "Yorkshire Ripper" serial killer, Peter Sutcliffe.
1999
A severe winter storm hits the Midwestern US; in Chicago temperatures
plunge to -13 ºF and19 inches of snow fell; 68 deaths are blamed on the
storm.
2006
A coal mine explosion in Sago, West Virginia, kills 12 miners and
critically injures another. This accident and another within weeks lead
to the first changes in federal mining laws in decades.
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