Today in History

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The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
1692
William Penn is deprived of his governing powers.
1863
Confederate women riot in Salisbury, N.C. to protest the lack of flour and salt in the South.
1865
The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourns for the last time.
1874
Hawaii signs a treaty giving exclusive trading rights with the islands to the United States.
1881
Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison Square Gardens.
1911
Theodore Roosevelt opens the Roosevelt Dam in Phoenix, Ariz., the largest dam in the United States to date.
1913
Greek King George I is killed by an assassin. Constantine I is to succeed.
1916
On the Eastern Front, the Russians counter the Verdun assault with an attack at Lake Naroch. The Russians lose 100,000 men and the Germans lose 20,000.
1917
The Germans sink the U.S. ships, City of Memphis, Vigilante and the Illinois, without any type of warning.
1922
Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience in India.
1939
Georgia finally ratifies the Bill of Rights, 150 years after the birth of the federal government. Connecticut and Massachusetts, the only other states to hold out, also ratify the Bill of Rights in this year.
1942
The third military draft begins in the United States.
1943
Adolf Hitler calls off the offensive in the Caucasus.
1943
American forces take Gafsa in Tunisia.
1944
The Russians reach the Rumanian border.
1950
Nationalist troops land on the mainland of China and capture Communist-held Sungmen.
1953
The Braves baseball team announces that they are moving from Boston to Milwaukee.
1965
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first man to spacewalk when he exits his Voskhod 2 space capsule while in orbit around the Earth.
1969
President Richard M. Nixon authorizes Operation Menue, the'secret' bombing of Cambodia.
1970
The U.S. Postal Service is paralyzed by the first postal strike.
1971
U.S. helicopters airlift 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers out of Laos.
1975
South Vietnam abandons most of the Central Highlands to North Vietnamese forces.
1981
The United States discloses biological weapons tests in Texas in 1966.
1986
Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson