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Friday, September 2, 2016

Today in History

1666
The Great Fire of London, which devastates the city, begins.
1789
The Treasury Department, headed by Alexander Hamilton, is created in New York City.
1792
Verdun, France, surrenders to the Prussian Army.
1798
The Maltese people revolt against the French occupation, forcing the French troops to take refuge in the citadel of Valletta in Malta.
1870
Napoleon III capitulates to the Prussians at Sedan, France.
1885
In Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, 28 Chinese laborers are killed and hundreds more chased out of town by striking coal miners.
1898
Sir Herbert Kitchener leads the British to victory over the Mahdists at Omdurman and takes Khartoum.
1910
Alice Stebbins Wells is admitted to the Los Angeles Police Force as the first woman police officer to receive an appointment based on a civil service exam.
1915
Austro-German armies take Grodno, Poland.
1944
Troops of the U.S. First Army enter Belgium.
1945
Japan signs the document of surrender aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II
1945
Vietnam declares its independence and Nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaims himself its first president.
1956
Tennessee National Guardsmen halt rioters protesting the admission of 12 African-Americans to schools in Clinton.
1963
Alabama Governor George Wallace calls state troopers to Tuskegee High School to prevent integration.
1963
The US gets its first half-hour TV weeknight national news broadcast when CBS Evening News expands from 15 to 30 minutes.
1970
NASA cancels two planned missions to the moon.
1975
Joseph W. Hatcher of Tallahassee, Florida, becomes the state’s first African-American supreme court justice since Reconstruction.
1992
The US and Russia agree to a joint venture to build a space station.
1996
The Philippine government and Muslim rebels sign a pact, formally ending a 26-year long insurgency.
1998
Jean Paul Akayesu, former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, found guilty of nine counts of genocide by the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

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