Today in History

1588		The Spanish Armada is sighted off the coast of England.
1602		The Duke of Biron is executed in Paris for conspiring with Spain and Savoy against King Henry IV of France.
1603		Bartholomew Gilbert is killed in Virginia by Indians, during a search for the missing Roanoke colonists.
1693		The Army of the Grand Alliance is destroyed by the French at the Battle of Neerwinden.
1830		Liberals led by the Marquis de Lafayette seize Paris in opposition to the king’s restrictions on citizens’ rights.
1848		A rebellion against British rule is put down in Tipperary, Ireland.
1858		Japan signs a treaty of commerce and friendship with the United States.
1862		Confederates are routed by Union guerrillas at Moore’s Mill, Missouri.
1875		Peasants in Bosnia and Herzegovina rebel against the Ottoman army.
1915		U.S. Marines land at Port-au-Prince to protect American interests in Haiti.
1921		Adolf Hitler becomes the president of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis).
1945		After delivering parts of the first atomic bomb to the island of Tinian, the U.S.S. Indianapolis is sunk by a Japanese submarine. The survivors are adrift for two days before help arrives.
1981		Prince Charles marries Lady Diana.
1990		The Boston Red Sox hit 12 doubles in a game, setting a major league record.
1996		A US federal court strikes down the child protection portion of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, calling it too broad.
2005		Astronomers announce the discovery of dwarf planet Eris, leading the International Astronomic Union to clarify the definition of a planet.