Today in History

28 BC		The Temple of Apollo is dedicated on the Palatine Hill in Rome.
1470		Henry VI of England is restored to the throne.
1708		A Russian army commanded by Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya. It will go down as one of the major battles of the Great Northern War.
1760		Austrian and Russian troops enter Berlin and begin burning structures and looting.
1779		The Luddite riots begin in Manchester, England in reaction to machinery for spinning cotton being installed.
1781		Americans begin shelling the British surrounded at Yorktown.
1863		Confederate cavalry raiders return to Chattanooga after attacking Union General William Rosecrans‘ supply and communication lines all around east Tennessee.
1888		The Washington Monument, designed by Robert Mills, opens to the public.
1914		The Germans take Antwerp, Belgium, after 12-day siege.
1934		In Marseilles, a Macedonian revolutionary associated with Croat terrorists in Hungary assassinates King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. The two had been on a tour of European capitals in quest of an alliance against Nazi Germany. The assassinations bring the threat of war between Yugoslavia and Hungary, but confrontation is prevented by the League of Nations.
1941		President Franklin D. Roosevelt requests congressional approval for arming U.S. merchant ships.
1950		U.N. forces, led by the First Cavalry Division, cross the 38th parallel in South Korea and begin attacking northward towards the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
1983		The president of South Korea, Doo Hwan Chun, with his cabinet and other top officials are scheduled to lay a wreath on a monument in Rangoon, Burma, when a bomb explodes. Hwan had not yet arrived and so escaped injury, but 17 Koreans–including the deputy prime minister and two other cabinet members–and two Burmese are killed. North Korea is blamed.
1999		Last flight of the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” stealth reconnaissance aircraft takes place.
2006		North Korea reportedly tests its first nuclear device.