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Thursday, June 23, 2016

Today in History

1683
William Penn signs a friendship treaty with the Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
1700
Russia gives up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire.
1758
British and Hanoverian armies defeat the French at Krefeld in Germany.
1760
Austrian forces defeat the Prussians at Landshut, Germany.
1848
A bloody insurrection of workers erupts in Paris.
1860
The U.S. Secret Service is created to arrest counterfeiters and protect the president.
1863
Confederate forces overwhelm a Union garrison at the Battle of Brashear City in Louisiana.
1865
Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders his army at Fort Towson, in the Oklahoma Territory.
1884
A Chinese Army defeats the French at Bac Le, Indochina.
1885
Former general and pretender Ulysses S. Grant dies at the age of 63.
1902
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renew the Triple Alliance for a 12-year duration.
1934
Italy gains the right to colonize Albania after defeating the country.
1944
In one of the largest air strikes of the war, the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force sends 761 bombers against the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania.
1951
Soviet U.N. delegate Jacob Malik proposes cease-fire discussions in the Korean War.
1952
The U.S. Air Force bombs power plants on Yalu River, Korea.
1964
Henry Cabot Lodge resigns as the U.S. envoy to Vietnam and is succeeded by Maxwell Taylor.
1966
Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi are dispersed by tear gas.

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