This Week in History
This Week in History... September 7-13, 2009
- 10/09/1349 - Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
- 10/09/1547 - English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5
- 10/09/1608 - John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va
- 10/09/1776 - George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
- 10/09/1861 - -15] Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia
- 10/09/1861 - Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities
- 10/09/1939 - In WW II, Canada declared war on Germany
- 10/09/1940 - Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb
- 10/09/1942 - RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf
- 10/09/1943 - German troops occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City
- 10/09/1993 - Israel and PLO sign joint recognition statements
- 11/09/1557 - Catholic and Lutheran theology debated in Worm
- 11/09/1649 - Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland, Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists
- 11/09/1773 - Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"
- 11/09/1789 - Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury
- 11/09/1940 - Buckingham Palace in London destroyed by German bombs
- 11/09/1943 - Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida Belorussia liquidated
- 11/09/1944 - FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference
- 12/09/1695 - NY Jews petition governor Dongan for religious liberties
- 12/09/1862 - Battle of Harpers Ferry VA
- 12/09/1953 - Sen John F Kennedy, 36, marries Jacqueline Bouvier, 24
- 12/09/1958 - US Supreme Court orders Little Rock Ark high school to integrate
- 13/09/1556 - Charles V and Maria of Hungary march into Spain
- 13/09/1663 - 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia)
- 13/09/1788 - NY City becomes 1st capital of US
- 13/09/1847 - American-Mexican war: US Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
- 13/09/1861 - 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla
- 13/09/1906 - 1st airplane flight in Europe
- 13/09/1943 - Chiang Kai-shek became president of China
- 13/09/1948 - Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress
- 13/09/1953 - Nikita Khrushchev appointed 1st secretary-general of USSR
- 13/09/1993 - Israeli min of Foreign affairs Peres and PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord
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