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The Weather ChannelIraqAl Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al Kut An Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall KayfAfghanistanBost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul QandaharToday in History1360 - The English and French sign the Treaty of Brétigny.
1541 - Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River.
1639 - William Coddington founds Newport, RI.
1792 - The US establishes the military draft.
1794 - The US Post Office is established.
1846 - The first major battle of the Mexican War is fought in Palo Alto, Texas.
1858 - John Brown holds an antislavery convention.
1861 - Richmond VA, becomes the Confederacy's capital.
1864 - Battle of Antietam (Spotsylvania Court House / Laurel Hill) in Virginia.
1895 - China cedes Taiwan to Japan, under the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
1916 - In Fort Douaumont, a German munitions bunker explodes.
1919 - A Navy seaplane makes the first transatlantic flight take-off.
1941 - The German Q-ship
Pinguin sinks in the Indian Ocean.
1942 - The first twilight baseball game in 24 years raises $60,000 for the Navy Relief Fund (The Dodgers beat the Giants, 7-6).
- The Battle of the Coral Sea ends; a Japanese air attack sinks the aircraft carrier
Lexington.
1942 - In the Crimea, the Germans begin their summer offensive.
1943 - British Admiral Andrew B. "ABC" Cunningham, Commander-in-chief of the Mediteranean fleet, orders the Allied navy to "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass" in order to prevent Axis forces on the verge of surrender from leaving North Africa
1944 - 33 communist resistance fighters are sentenced to death
- the U-575 sinks the
Asphodel1945 - Canadian troops move into Amsterdam
- The Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet
- Near Berlin, German General Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov
- V-E Day - Germany signs an unconditional surrender
1949 - West German constitution approved
1958 - In Peru, US Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters.
1960 - The USSR resumes diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1961 - Alan Shepard receives the NASA Distinguished Service Medal.
1962 - The first launch of an Atlas Centaur occurs.
1967 - Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in the US Army.
1970 - Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in Wall Street, New York City.
1972 - At Lod International, Tel Aviv, Palestinian terrorists capture a Sabena aircraft.
1973 - Indians holding Wounded Knee, South Dakota, surrender after a 10-week standoff.
1980 - The World Health Organization announces smallpox has been eradicated.
1984 - The USSR announces it will not participate in the Summer Olympics, in Los Angeles.
1987 - Gary Hart quits the US Democratic presidential race because of the Donna Rice affair.
1991 - CIA director William H. Webster resigns
1994 - President Clinton announces that the US will no longer repatriate boat people.
1996 - South Africa adopts a permanent post-apartheid constitution.
Birthdays 1753 - Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, father of Mexican independence.
1810 - James Cooper, Union Brigadier General.
1833 - Frank Wheaton, Union Brevet Major General.
1836 - Bryan Morel Thomas, Confederate Brigadier General.
1884 - Harry S. Truman, 33rd US President
1925 - Ali Hassan Mwinyi, President of Tanzania.
1928 - Theodore Sorensen, JFK's advisor, and author of
1000 Days.
1936 - Neville Purvis, British Vice Admiral, Chief of Fleet Support.
1937 - Dennis DeConcini (Senator-AZ).
1937 - Michael Simmons, Air Marshal, British Ministry of Defense.
1941 - James A. Traficant, Jr. (Representative-OH).
1952 - Charles J. Camarda New York, Ph.D/astronaut
1963 - Clemens Lothaller Austria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13 backup)
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