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Tell us again, Who IS Pathetic?
| 1071 | Turks defeat the Byzantine army under Emperor Romanus IV at Manzikert, Eastern Turkey. | |
| 1429 | Joan of Arc makes a triumphant entry into Paris. | |
| 1789 | The Constituent Assembly in Versailles, France, approves the final version of the Declaration of Human Rights. | |
| 1862 | Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson seizes Manassas Junction, Virginia, and moves to encircle Union forces under General John Pope. | |
| 1883 | The Indonesian island of Krakatoa erupts in the largest explosion recorded in history, heard 2,200 miles away in Madagascar. The resulting destruction sends volcanic ash up 50 miles into the atmosphere and kills almost 36,000 people–both on the island itself and from the resulting 131-foot tidal waves that obliterate 163 villages on the shores of nearby Java and Sumatra. | |
| 1920 | The 19th Amendment to the Constitution is officially ratified, giving women the right to vote. | |
| 1943 | The United States recognizes the French Committee of National Liberation. | |
| 1966 | South African Defense Force troops attack a People’s Liberation Army of Namibia unit at Omugulugwombashe, the first battle of the 22-year Namibian War of Independence. | |
| 1970 | A nationwide Women’s Strike for Equality, led by Betty Friedan on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment calls attention to unequal pay and other gender inequalities in America. | |
| 1999 | Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade. |
A month ago, the federal government sent a "Dear John" letter to the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
| 357 | Julian defeats the Alamanni at Strasbourg in Gaul. | |
| 1346 | Edward III of England defeats Philip VI’s army at the Battle of Crecy in France. | |
| 1758 | The Prussian army defeats the invading Russians at the Battle of Zorndorf. | |
| 1765 | In protest over the stamp tax, American colonists sack and burn the home of Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson. | |
| 1862 | Union and Confederate troops skirmish at Waterloo Bridge, Virginia, during the Second Bull Run Campaign. | |
| 1864 | Confederate General A.P. Hill pushes back Union General Winfield Scott Hancock from Reams Station where his army has spent several days destroying railroad tracks. | |
| 1916 | The National Park Service is established as part of the Department of the Interior. | |
| 1921 | The United States, which never ratified the Versailles Treaty ending World War I, finally signs a peace treaty with Germany. | |
| 1941 | British and Soviet forces enter Iran, opening up a route to supply the Soviet Union. | |
| 1944 | Paris is liberated from German occupation by Free French Forces under General Jacques LeClerc. | |
| 1948 | The House Un-American Activities Committee holds its first-ever televised congressional hearing. | |
| 1950 | President Harry Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize control of the nation’s railroads to avert a strike. | |
| 1991 | The Airbus A340 makes its first flight. | |
| 1991 | Belarus gains independence from the USSR. | |
| 1991 | The Croatian War of Independence breaks out: Battle of Vukovar begins, an 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces. |
If you read or listen to almost any article about climate change, it’s likely the story refers in some way to the “2 degrees Celsius limit.” The story often mentions greatly increased risks if the climate exceeds 2°C and even “catastrophic” impacts to our world if we warm more than the target.
Denmark police on Wednesday morning acknowledged that the headless body
found on one of a Copenhagen beach is that of missing Swedish journalist
Kim Wall.