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Today in history



On January 27th 1945 the remaining prisoners in Concentration Camp Auschwitz were freed by soldiers of the red army.

 
1649 - England's King Charles I was executed for high treason
1933 - Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany
1945 - During World War II, a Soviet submarine torpedoed the German ship MV Wilhelm Gustioff in the Baltic Sea with the loss of more than 9,000 lives, most of them war refugees; roughly 1,000 people survived
1948 - Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. Godse and a co-conspirator were later executed
1968 - the Tet Offensive began during the Vietnam War as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese towns and cities. Although the Communists were beaten back, the offensive was seen as a major setback for the United States and its allies
1969 - the Beatles staged an impromptu concert atop Apple headquarters in London. It was the groups last public performance
1972 - 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday"
1981 - an estimated 2 million New Yorkers turned out for a ticker-tape parade honoring the American hostages freed from Iran
1993 - Los Angeles inaugurated its Metro Red Line, the city's first modern subway
 
1649: England's King Charles I, a devout Anglican with Catholic sympathies who staunchly defended the "divine right of kings" while oppressing the Puritans, is executed after being convicted of treason under a Puritan-influenced Parliament.
 
6 February 1952 - Accession of Elizabeth II upon the death of her father George VI.

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6 February 1952 - Accession of Elizabeth II upon the death of her father George VI.

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1778 - during the American Revolutionary War, the United States won official recognition and military support from France with the signing of the Treaty of Alliance in Paris
1862 - during the Civil War, Fort Henry in Tennessee fell to Union troops
1899 - a peace treaty between the United States and Spain was ratified by the U. S. Senate
1922 - Cardinal Achille Ratti was elected pope. He took the name Pius XI
1933 - the 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution, the so-called "Lame Duck" amendment, was proclaimed in effect ty Secretary of State Henry Stimson
1993 - tennis Hall of Famer and human rights advocate Arthur Ashe died in New York at age 49
1998 - Carl Wilson, a founding member of the Beach Boys, died in Los Angeles at age 51
 
1633: Called to trial by the Inquisition, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome ready to explain his belief that the earth revolves around the sun. He was compelled to recant the view, and was placed under house arrest until his death in 1642
 
1208: Francis of Assisi experiences a vision in the church of Portunicula, Italy. Though not his first vision, it convinced him to begin a mission of preaching repentance, singing, caring for lepers, and aiding the peasants. Most notably, he and his followers renounced wealth and followed absolute poverty.
 
Born 100 years ago today






PPP - Pier Paolo Pasolini - italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual.

 
1770 - The Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who'd been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing 5 people
1933 - in German parliamentary elections, the Nazi party won 44% of the vote; the Nazis joined with a conservative nationalist party to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag
1998 - NASA scientists said enough water was frozen in the loose soil of the moon to support a lunar base and, perhaps, one day, a human colony
 
Today 180 years ago


Opera premiere of Giuseppe Verdi`s Nabucco




 
1925: Austin Peay, governor of Tennessee, signs the "Butler Bill," prohibiting any teaching that contradicted the Genesis creation story. By July, John Scopes was on trial for violating the legislation and the "trial of the century" had begun
 
1953: Billy Graham holds his first integrated revival in Chattanooga, TN. Up to this point Graham accommodated southern whites by holding segregated revivals when in the South.
 
1413 - England's King Henry IV dies. He was succeeded by Henry V
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule
1854 - the Republican Party of the United States was founded by slavery opponents at a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin
1969 - John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
1976 - kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was convicted of armed robbery for her part in a San Francisco bank holdup carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison; she was released after serving 22 months, and was pardoned in 2001 by President Bill Clinton
1996 - a jury in Los Angeles convicted Erik and Lyle Menendez of first-degree murder in the shotgun slayings of their wealthy parents. They were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole
 
1813 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted present-day Florida
1836 - more than 400 Texan prisoners of war, among them Colonel James Fannin, were massacred by Mexican troops in Goliad, Texas
1912 - First Lady Helen Herron Taft and the wife of Japan's ambassador to the United States planted the first two of 3,000 cherry trees given to the United States as a gift by the mayor of Tokyo
1968 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the Earth in 1961, died when his MIG-15 jet crashed during a routine training flight near Moscow. He was 34.
 
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