Today in History

1129		The warrior Yoritomo is made Shogun without equal in Japan.
1525		Estavao Gomes returns to Portugal after failing to find a clear waterway to Asia.
1794		France surrenders the island of Corsica to the British.
1808		Napoleon Bonaparte's General Junot is defeated by Wellington at the first Battle of the Peninsular War at Vimiero, Portugal.
1831		Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia that kills close to 60 whites.
1858		The first of a series of debates begins between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Douglas goes on to win the Senate seat in November, but Lincoln gains national visibility for the first time.
1863		Confederate raiders under William Quantrill strike Lawrence, Kansas, leaving 150 civilians dead.
1864		Confederate General A.P. Hill attacks Union troops south of Petersburg, Va., at the Weldon railroad. His attack is repulsed, resulting in heavy Confederate casualties.
1915		Italy declares war on Turkey.
1942		U.S. Marines turn back the first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal in the Battle of Tenaru.
1944		The Dumbarton Oaks conference, which lays the foundation for the establishment of the United Nations, is held in Washington, D.C.
1945		President Harry S. Truman cancels all contracts under the Lend-Lease Act.
1959		Hawaii is admitted into the Union.
1963		The South Vietnamese Army arrests over 100 Buddhist monks in Saigon.
1968		Soviet forces invade Czechoslovakia because of the country's experiments with a more liberal government.
1996		The new Globe theater opens in England.