Today in History

1066		Harold Godwinson is crowned King Harold II – King of England.
1540		Henry VIII of England marries his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. The marriage will last six months.
1861		The Governor of Maryland, Thomas Hicks, announces his opposition to the state’s possible secession from the Union.
1904		Japanese railway authorities in Korea refuse to transport Russian troops.
1910		Union leaders ask President William H. Taft to investigate U.S. Steel’s practices.
1912		New Mexico becomes the 47th U.S. state of the Union.
1918		Germany acknowledges Finland’s independence.
1919		Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, dies at the age of 60 in his home at Sagamore Hill, New York.
1921		The U.S. Navy orders the sale of 125 flying boats to encourage commercial aviation.
1937		The United States bans the shipment of arms to war-torn Spain.
1941		President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks Congress to support the Lend-lease Bill to help supply the Allies.
1945		Boeing B-29 bombers in the Pacific strike new blows on Tokyo and Nanking.
1946		Ho Chi Minh wins in the Vietnamese elections.
1958		Moscow announces a reduction in its armed forces by 300,000.
1967		Over 16,000 U.S. and 14,000 Vietnamese troops start their biggest attack on the Iron Triangle, northwest of Saigon.
1987		Astronomers report sighting a new galaxy 12 billion light years away.
2001		In one of the closest Presidential elections in U.S. history, the shrub was finally declared the winner of the bitterly contested 2000 Presidential elections more than five weeks after the election due to the disputed Florida ballots.
2005		Former Ku Klux Klan organizer Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi.
2014		The U.S. Senate confirms Janet Yellen as the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve in the central bank’s 100-year history.