This Week in History
This Week in History... August 10-16, 2009
- 08-10-0070 - "2nd Temple" of Jews is set aflame (approx)
- 08-10-1497 - John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia"
- 08-10-1831 - Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
- 08-10-1846 - Congress charters "nation's attic," Smithsonian Institution
- 08-10-1941 - FDR and Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia Newfoundland
- 08-11-1924 - US presidential candidates make 1st film for bio-scoop news
- 08-11-1941 - FDR and PM Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter
- 08-12-1676 - 1st war between American colonists and Indians ends in New England
- 08-12-1867 - Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton
- 08-12-1898 - Hawaii formally annexed to US
- 08-12-1898 - Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed
- 08-12-1990 - Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories
- 08-12-1994 - Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
- 08-13-1608 - John Smith's story of Jamestown's 1st days submitted for publication
- 08-13-1792 - Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette
- 08-13-1906 - Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
- 08-13-1961 - Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)
- 08-14-1765 - Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
- 08-14-1842 - Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma
- 08-14-1862 - Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president
- 08-14-1900 - 2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion
- 08-14-1912 - 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
- 08-14-1937 - China declares war on Japan
- 08-14-1942 - Dwight D Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa
- 08-14-1945 - V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II
- 08-14-1973 - US ends secret bombing of Cambodia
- 08-15-1534 - Ignatius of Loyola forms society of Jesus/Jesuits
- 08-15-1620 - Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
- 08-15-1824 - Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia
- 08-15-1867 - 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England
- 08-15-1870 - Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado
- 08-15-1944 - Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence
- 08-15-1944 - Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast
- 08-15-1960 - UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
- 08-15-1969 - Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)
- 08-16-1777 - Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
- 08-16-1858 - Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan
- 08-16-1861 - Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy
- 08-16-1863 - Emancipation Proclamation signed
- 08-16-1961 - Martin L. King, Jr. protests for black voting right in Miami
- 08-16-1969 - Woodstock rock festival begins in NY
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