I was thinking this morning i wonder what happened on this day in the past. I was surprised at how much has gone on in the world and the different types of achievement or mostly conflicts.
Have a great day everyone!
1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected Holy Roman Emperor.
1509 - Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
1770 - Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
1798 - Napoleon Bonaparte takes the island of Malta.
1861 - Union forces under General George B. McClellan repulse a Confederate force at Rich Mountain in western Virginia.
1865 - Major General Henry W. Halleck finds documents and archives of the Confederate government in Richmond, Virginia. This discovery will lead to the publication of the official war records.
1895 - Charles E. Duryea receives the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.
1903 - King Alexander and Queen Draga of Belgrade are assassinated by members of the Serbia army.
1915 - British troops take Cameroon in Africa.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh, a captain in the US Army Air Corps Reserve, receives the first Distinguished Flying Cross ever awarded, for his solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1930 - William Beebe, of the New York Zoological Society, dives to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda, in a diving chamber called a bathysphere.
1934 - The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ends in failure.
1940 - The Italian Air Force bombs the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean.
1943 - The Italian island of Pantelleria surrenders after a heavy air bombardment.
1944 - U.S. carrier-based planes attack Japanese airfields on Guam , Rota, Saipan and Tinian islands, preparing for the invasion of Saipan.
1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.
1967 - Israel and Syria accept a U. N. cease-fire.
1987 - Margaret Thatcher wins her third consecutive term as Prime Minister.
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