Vikash ks
6th August 2009, 10:38 AM
This Day In History
1284 Italian city of Pisa is defeated in Battle of Meloria by Genoa, ruining its naval power.
1538 Bogotα, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jimιnez de Quesada.
1661 The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
1787 Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention.
1806 Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
1819 Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
1825 Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
1845 The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
1861 The British annex Lagos, Nigeria.
1862 American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1870 Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Wrth is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
1890 At Auburn Prison in New York murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
1901 Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
1909 Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
1912 The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
1914 World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Helgoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
1914 World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
1914 Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I.
1915 World War I: Battle of Sari Bair the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
1917 World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
1923 Henry Sullivan swims the English Channel.
1926 Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
1926 In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1926 Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1930 Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears.
1942 Queen Wilhelmina becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
1945 World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands died in subsequent years due to burns and radiation poisoning.
1956 After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.
1960 Cuban Revolution: in response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1962 Jamaica becomes independent.
1964 Prometheus, the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
1965 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
1966 Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.
1976 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
1986 A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney.
1988 The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs reform of the NYPD, who were responsible for the melee that transpired the night of August 6-7.
1990 Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1991 Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
1993 According to a Japanese government and Tokyo Broadcasting System networks report, heavy rains and debris kill 72 in the Kagoshima and Aira areas, of Kyūshū, Japan.
1996 NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
1997 Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
2008 A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'ιtat in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
1284 Italian city of Pisa is defeated in Battle of Meloria by Genoa, ruining its naval power.
1538 Bogotα, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jimιnez de Quesada.
1661 The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
1787 Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention.
1806 Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
1819 Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
1825 Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
1845 The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
1861 The British annex Lagos, Nigeria.
1862 American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1870 Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Wrth is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
1890 At Auburn Prison in New York murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
1901 Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
1909 Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
1912 The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
1914 World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Helgoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
1914 World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
1914 Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I.
1915 World War I: Battle of Sari Bair the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
1917 World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
1923 Henry Sullivan swims the English Channel.
1926 Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
1926 In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1926 Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1930 Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears.
1942 Queen Wilhelmina becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
1945 World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands died in subsequent years due to burns and radiation poisoning.
1956 After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.
1960 Cuban Revolution: in response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1962 Jamaica becomes independent.
1964 Prometheus, the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
1965 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
1966 Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.
1976 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
1986 A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney.
1988 The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs reform of the NYPD, who were responsible for the melee that transpired the night of August 6-7.
1990 Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1991 Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
1993 According to a Japanese government and Tokyo Broadcasting System networks report, heavy rains and debris kill 72 in the Kagoshima and Aira areas, of Kyūshū, Japan.
1996 NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
1997 Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
2008 A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'ιtat in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi