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1408 | The revolt of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, against King Henry IV, ends with his defeat and death at Bramham Moor. | |
1701 | Philip V of Spain makes his ceremonial entry into Madrid. | |
1807 | Vice President Aaron Burr is arrested in Alabama for treason. He is later found innocent. | |
1847 | Rescuers finally reach the ill-fated Donner Party in the Sierras. | |
1861 | Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom. | |
1902 | Smallpox vaccination becomes obligatory in France. | |
1903 | The Austria-Hungary government decrees a mandatory two year military service. | |
1915 | British and French warships begin their attacks on the Turkish forts at the mouth of the Dardenelles, in an abortive expedition to seize the straits of Gallipoli. | |
1917 | American troops are recalled from the Mexican border. | |
1919 | The First Pan African Congress meets in Paris, France. | |
1925 | President Calvin Coolidge proposes the phasing out of inheritance tax. | |
1926 | Dr. Lane of Princeton estimates the earth’s age at one billion years. | |
1942 | Port Darwin, on the northern coast of Australia, is bombed by the Japanese. | |
1944 | The U.S. Eighth Air Force and Royal Air Force begin “Big Week,” a series of heavy bomber attacks against German aircraft production facilities. | |
1965 | Fourteen Vietnam War protesters are arrested for blocking the United Nations’ doors in New York. | |
1966 | Robert F. Kennedy suggests the United States offer the Vietcong a role in governing South Vietnam. | |
1976 | Britain slashes welfare spending. | |
1981 | The U.S. State Department calls El Salvador a “textbook case” of a Communist plot. | |
1987 | New York Governor Mario Cuomo declares that he will not run for president in the next election. |