This Day in History.....
1683- William Penn signs a friendship treaty with the Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
1700- Russia gives up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire.
1758- British and Hanoverian armies defeat the French at Krefeld in Germany.
1760- Austrian forces defeat the Prussians at Landshut, Germany.
1848- A bloody insurrection of workers erupts in Paris.
1860- The U.S. Secret Service is created to arrest counterfeiters and protect the president.
1863- Confederate forces overwhelm a Union garrison at the Battle of Brasher City in Louisiana.
1865- Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders his army at Fort Towson, in the Oklahoma Territory.
1884- A Chinese Army defeats the French at Bacle, Indochina.
1885- Former general and president Ulysses S. Grant dies at the age of 63.
1902- Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy renew the Triple Alliance for a 12-year duration.
1934- Italy gains the right to colonize Albania after defeating the country.
1944- In one of the largest air strikes of the war, the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force sends 761 bombers against the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania.
1951- Soviet U.N. delegate Jacob Malik proposes cease-fire discussions in the Korean War.
1952- The U.S. Air Force bombs power plants on Yalu River, Korea.
1964- Henry Cabot Lodge resigns as the U.S. envoy to Vietnam and is succeeded by Maxwell Taylor.
1966- Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi are dispersed by tear gas.
1972- President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman
discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate
investigation. (Revelation of the tape recording of this
conversation led to Nixon's resignation in 1974.)
1996- Congressional Democrats unveiled a "families first"
legislative package aimed at winning middle class voters and
retaking Capitol Hill.
2005- former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60
years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil
rights worker.
For some reason I could log on from work today and I haven't been able to all week...Go figure.
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