Things that took place on each day In the history of the world

Spanish-American war end in 1898

1817 Mississippi is admitted as the 20th state.

1861 Kentucky is admitted to the Confederate States of America.

1862 The U.S. House of Representatives passes a bill creating the state of West Virginia.

1869 Governor John Campbell signs the bill that grants women in Wyoming Territory the right to vote as well as hold public office.

1898 The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Paris, ceding Spanish possessions, including the Philippines, to the United States.

1917 The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the International Red Cross.

1918 U.S. troops are called to guard Berlin as a coup is feared.

1919 Captain Ross Smith becomes the first person to fly 11,500 miles from England to Australia.

1936 Edward VIII abdicates to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, an American-born divorcee.

1941 Japanese troops invade the Philippine island of Luzon.

1941 The siege of Tobruk in North Africa is raised.

1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill that postpones a draft of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers.

1943 Allied forces bomb Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.

1949 150,000 French troops mass at the border inVietnam to prevent a Chinese invasion.

1950 Dr. Ralph J. Bunche becomes the first African-American to be awarded the Nobel PeacePrize.

1977 On UN Human Rights Day, the Soviet Unionplaces 20 prominent dissidents under house arrest, cutting off telephones and threatening to break up a planned silent demonstration in Moscow’s Pushkin Square. Soviet newspapers decry human rights violations elsewhere in the world.

BORN ON THIS DAY
1830 Emily Dickinson, American poet of more
than 1,000 poems, seven published in her lifetime.

1851 Melvil Dewey, American librarian who created the Dewey Decimal System.

1881 Viscount Alexander of Tunis, British soldierwho took his title from his part in the Allied victories in North Africa.

1891 Nelly Sachs, Nobel Prize-winning poet.

1903 Mary Norton, English children’s author ( Bedknobs and Broomsticks ).

1907 Rumor Godden, English novelist ( Black Narcissus ).

1908 Oliver Messian, French composer ( Quartet for the End of Time ).

1911 Chester “Chet” Huntley, American broadcast journalist.

lol. that's alot... I got mine from a documentary I watched a couple of weeks ago on the history of America

Edward VIII abdicates , 1936
American Revolution
British delay Washington’s march to Valley
Forge , 1777
Automotive
NYC authorities jettison plans for expressway
across Lower Manhattan , 1962
Civil War
The Federals occupy Fredericksburg , 1862
Cold War
Soviets declare nudity a sign of “western
decadence” , 1969
Crime
Billionaire conman Bernard Madoff arrested ,
2008
Disaster
Toronto endures record snowstorm , 1944
General Interest
UNICEF founded , 1946
Yeltsin orders Russian forces into Chechnya ,
1994


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