325 | The Ecumenical council is inaugurated by Emperor Constantine in Nicea. | |
1303 | A peace treaty is signed between England and France. | |
1347 | Cola di Rienzo takes the title of tribune in Rome. | |
1520 | Hernando Cortes defeats Spanish troops sent against him in Mexico. | |
1690 | England passes the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II. | |
1674 | John Sobieski becomes Poland’s first king. | |
1774 | Parliament passes the Coercive Acts to punish the colonists for their increasingly anti-British behavior. The acts close the port of Boston. | |
1775 | North Carolina becomes the first colony to declare its independence. | |
1784 | The Peace of Versailles ends a war between France, England, and Holland. | |
1799 | Napoleon Bonaparte orders a withdrawal from his siege of St. Jean d’Acre in Egypt. | |
1859 | A force of Austrians collide with Piedmontese cavalry at the village of Montebello, in northern Italy. | |
1861 | North Carolina becomes the last state to secede from the Union. | |
1862 | Lincoln signs the Homestead Act, providing 250 million acres of free land to settlers in the West. | |
1874 | Levi Strauss begins marketing blue jeans with copper rivets. | |
1902 | The U.S. military occupation of Cuba ends. | |
1927 | Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York for Paris. | |
1930 | The first airplane is catapulted from a dirigible. | |
1932 | Amelia Earhart lands near Londonderry, Ireland, to become the first woman fly solo across the Atlantic. | |
1939 | Pan American Airways starts the first regular passenger service across the Atlantic. | |
1941 | Germany invades Crete by air. | |
1942 | Japan completes the conquest of Burma. | |
1951 | During the Korean War, U.S. Air Force Captain James Jabara becomes the first jet air ace in history. | |
1961 | A white mob attacks civil rights activists in Montgomery, Alabama. | |
1969 | The Battle of Hamburger Hill, which has pitted U.S. and South Vietnamese troops against North Vietnamese forces, ends after 11 days of fighting. Despite bad weather and heavy enemy fortifications, U.S. troops succeed in taking the steeply sloped hill but will abandon it 15 days later—a move that will be controversial both within the U.S. military and with the American public. |
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1970 | 100,000 people march in New York, supporting U.S. policies in Vietnam. |
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