Today in History

• 1588 The Battle of Gravelines - Spanish Armada damaged & scattered by the English fleet
• 1848 Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule put down by police
• 1905 US Secretary of State William Howard Taft makes secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to Japanese free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines
• 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party
• 1949 Moscow ends the blockade of West Berlin