Today in History

1667		The Peace of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War as the Dutch cede New Amsterdam to the English.
1675		Christopher Wren begins work on rebuilding St. Paul’s Cathedral in London after the Great Fire.
1791		The French royal family is arrested in Varennes.
1834		C. H. McCormick patents the first practical reaper.
1862		Union and Confederate forces skirmish at the Chickahominy Creek.
1863		In the second day of fighting, Confederate troops fail to dislodge a Union force at the Battle of LaFourche Crossing.
1887		Britain celebrates the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria.
1900		General Douglas MacArthur offers amnesty to Filipinos rebelling against American rule.
1908		Mulai Hafid again proclaims himself the true sultan of Morocco.
1911		Porforio Diaz, the ex-president of Mexico, exiles himself to Paris.
1915		Germany uses poison gas for the first time in warfare in the Argonne Forest.
1919		Germans scuttle their own fleet at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
1939		Baseball legend Lou Gehrig is forced to quit baseball because of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis–a disease which wastes muscles.
1942		German General Erwin Rommel captures the port city of Tobruk in North Africa.
1945		Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to American troops.
1948		Dr. Peter Goldmark demonstrates his “long-playing” record.
1958		A federal judge allows Little Rock, Arkansas to delay school integration.
1963		France announces it will withdraw from the NATO fleet in the North Atlantic.
1964		Three civil rights workers disappear in Meridian, Mississippi.
1982		John Hinckley Jr. is found not guilty by reason of insanity for attempting to assassinate Reagan.
1995		The U.S. Senate votes against the nomination of Dr. Henry W. Foster for Surgeon General.