Today in History

991		Danes under Olaf Tryggvason kill Ealdorman Byrhtnoth and defeat the Saxons at Maldon.
1862		Lincoln appoints Union General Henry Halleck to the position of general-in-chief of the Union Army.
1904		German General Lothar von Trotha defeats the Hereros tribe near Waterberg, South Africa.
1908		Britain’s King Edward VII meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II to protest the growth of the German navy.
1916		The Russia army takes Stanislau, Poland, from the Germans.
1941		Soviet bombers raid Berlin but cause little damage.
1942		The German submarine U-73 attacks a Malta-bound British convoy and sinks HMS Eagle, one of the world’s first aircraft carriers.
1944		German troops abandon Florence, Italy, as Allied troops close in on the historic city.
1972		The last U.S. ground forces withdraw from Vietnam.
1975		The US vetoes admission of North and South Vietnam to the UN.
1988		Al Qaeda is formed at a meeting in Peshawar, Pakistan.
1990		Troops from Egypt and Morocco arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the international operation to prevent Iraq from invading.
2003		NATO assumes command of the international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, its first major operation outside Europe.