Today in History

1348		The first English order of knighthood is founded.
1500		Pedro Cabral claims Brazil for Portugal.
1521		The Comuneros are crushed by royalist troops in Spain.
1661		Charles II is formally crowned king, returning the monarchy to Britain, albeit with greatly reduced powers.
1759		British forces seize Basse-Terre and Guadeloupe from France.
1789		President George Washington moves into Franklin House, New York.
1826		Missolonghi falls to Egyptian forces.
1856		Free Stater J.N. Mace in Westport, Kansas shoots pro-slavery sheriff Samuel Jones in the back.
1865		Union cavalry units continue to skirmish with Confederate forces in Henderson, North Carolina and Munford’s Station, Alabama.
1895		Russia, France, and Germany force Japan to return the Liaodong peninsula to China.
1896		Motion pictures premiere in New York City.
1914		The Federals defeat Kansas City 9-1 in the first major league game to be played in Chicago’s Weeghman Park, later renamed Wrigley Field.
1915		The ACA becomes the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA), the forerunner of NASA.
1920		The Turkish Grand National Assembly has first meeting in Ankara.
1924		The U.S. Senate passes the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill.
1945		The Soviet Army fights its way into Berlin.
1950		Chiang Kai-shek evacuates Hainan, leaving mainland China to Mao Zedong and the communists.
1954		The Army-McCarthy hearings begin.
1966		President Lyndon Johnson publicly appeals for more nations to come to the aid of South Vietnam.
1969		Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for killing Senator Robert Kennedy.
1971		The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 10, becoming the first mission to the Salyut 1 space station.