TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY
451 Battle of Avarayr: Armenians are defeated by the Persians
1085 Alfonso VI of Castille liberates Toledo from the Moors
1241 Rioters attack the Jews of Frankfort-on-the-Main
1571 Stephen Bathory is elected Prince of Transylvania (1571-75)
1626 Battle of Dessau: Imperialists defeat the Protestants
1632 Albrecht von Wallenstein's Imperial troops recapture Prague from the Saxons
1784 Marshal Mnizzek expels the Jews from Warsaw
1787 The Constitutional Convention opens in Philadelphia
1810 Argentina declares independence from Spain, which is largely under French occupation anyway
1836 Attempted assassination of King Louis Philippe of France
1862 Battle of Winchester, VA
1864 Battle of New Hope Church, GA
1865 Magazine explosion in Mobile, c. 300 die
1870 Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec, from the US
1878 Premieres of "HMS Pinafore" by Gilbert & Sullivan, in London
1919 U.S. Navy flying boat 'NC-4' completes a trans-Atlantic flight to Portugal (from 16th)
1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" begins, Dayton, Tennessee
1940 German troops reach the Channel near Boulogne
1949 The Chinese Red Army occupies Shanghai
1953 First, and only, live test firing of the "Atomic Cannon," Nevada
1961 JFK pledges the US will put a man on the moon by 1970
1961 NASA pilot Joseph A Walker takes 'X-15' to 32,770 m
1979 Israel pulls out of Sinai, implementing peace with Egypt
1991 Israel completes rescue of 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
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