General Category > Military/Defense News

April 22: This Day in World Military History

(1/1)

rangerrebew:
238     The Senate declares Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus Pius & Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus Roman Co-Emperors (Apr 22-July 29, 238)
1073     Election of Pope Gregory VIII - Hildebrand (1073-1085), later canonized
1164     Frederick Barbarossa makes Guido di Crema [Anti-]Pope as "Paschal III" (1164-1168)
1363     Battle of Canturino: The White Company defeats the Milanese
1370     Construction of the Bastille begins in Paris
1509     Henry VIII becomes King of England, d. 1547
1521     King Francis I of France declares war on Spain
1526     First known slave revolt in what is now the US, South Carolina
1529     Treaty of Zaragoza: Spain & Portugal divide the eastern hemisphere
1676     Naval Battle off Etna/Agosta/Catania: Dutch-Spanish vs. French
1769     Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress
1796     Battle of Mondovi: Napoleon defeats the Piedmontese
1809     Battle of Eggmuhl: The French defeat the Austrians
1898     President McKinley orders blockade of Cuba
1898     USS 'Nashville' captures Spanish ship 'Buena Ventura'
1913     Balkan Wars: Montenegrans capture Scutari, Albania, from the Turks
1914     Mexico severs diplomatic relations with the US
1915     Second Battle of Ypres: Germany introduces poison gas
1930     Signing of the The London Naval Arms Limitation Trety
1944     Hitler & Mussolini confer at Berchtesgarten
1944     New Guinea: U.S. Army troops land near Hollandia
1945     3rd Inf Div demonstrates American cultural insensitivity by blowing up the swastika atop the Nuremburg Stadium --  Learn More
1945     Soviet and Polish troops liberate the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, near Oranienburg in Brandenburg, which held many political leaders from Captive Nations and special military prisoners
1952     First live television broadcast of an atomic bomb test and of the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings
1954     Ticker tape parade on Broadway for the 4th Infantry Division, home from Korea
1961     General Raoul Salan attempts an anti-Gaullist coup in Algeria
1972     Astronauts John Young & Charles Duke take a dune buggy ride on the Moon
1983     Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth

http://www.strategypage.com/today-in-military-history.aspx

Navigation

[0] Message Index