Today in History

1601   The Treaty of Lyons ends a short war between France and Savoy.
1746   Charles Edward Stuart defeats the government forces at the battle of Falkirk in Scotland.  
1773   Captain James Cook becomes the first person to cross the Antarctic Circle.  
1819   Simon Bolivar the "liberator" proclaims Columbia a republic.  
1893   Queen Liliuokalani, the Hawaiian monarch, is overthrown by a group of American sugar planters led by Sanford Ballard Dole.  
1852   At the Sand River Convention, the British recognize the independence of the Transvaal Board.  
1912   Robert Scott reaches the South Pole only a month after Roald Amundsen.  
1939   The Reich issues an order forbidding Jews to practice as dentists, veterinarians and chemists.  
1945   The Red army occupies Warsaw.  
1963   Soviet leader Khrushchev visits the Berlin Wall.  
1985   A jury in New Jersey rules that terminally ill patients have the right to starve themselves.