Today in History

1540		Thomas Cromwell is beheaded on Tower Hill in England.
1627		Sir George Calvert arrives in Newfoundland to develop his land grant.
1637		King Charles of England hands over the American colony of Massachusetts to Sir Fernando Gorges, one of the founders of the Council of New England.
1664		Wealthy, non-church members in Massachusetts are given the right to vote.
1793		The French garrison at Mainz, Germany, falls to the Prussians.
1803		Irish patriots throughout the country rebel against Union with Great Britain.
1829		William A. Burt patents his "typographer," an early typewriter.
1849		German rebels in Baden capitulate to the Prussians.
1863		Bill Andeson and his Confederate Bushwackers gut the railway station at Renick, Missouri.
1865		William Booth founds the Salvation Army.
1868		The 14th Amendment is ratified, granting citizenship to African Americans.
1885		Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer at the age of 63.
1894		Japanese troops take over the Korean imperial palace.
1903		The Ford Motor Company sells its first automobile, the Model A.
1944		Soviet troops take Lublin, Poland as the German army retreats.
1962		The Geneva Conference on Laos forbids the United States to invade eastern Laos.
1995		Two astronomers, Alan Hale in New Mexico and Thomas Bopp in Arizona, almost simultaneouly discover a comet.