NATIONAL PECAN TORTE DAY
851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
1642 – Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
1910 – Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico.
1864 – Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention.
1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
1910 – Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
1941 – World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the Siege of Leningrad.
1944 – World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
1950 – Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
1963 – American Joe Walker in a hypersonic rocket-powered X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet).
1973 – The Congress of Chile votes in favor of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands him to resign or else be unseated through force and new elections be called. The first demand is executed eighteen days later in a bloody coup d'état, commencing 17 years of military rule.
1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
2012 – Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1844 – George W. De Long, American Naval officer and explorer, expedition to find the open polar sea (d. 1881)
1862 – Claude Debussy, French pianist and composer (d. 1918)
1896 – Laurence McKinley Gould, American geologist, educator, and polar explorer (d. 1995)
1908 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (d. 2004)
1918 – Mary McGrory, American journalist and author (d. 2004)
1920 – Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1934 – Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general and engineer (d. 2012)
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1996 – President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy.
2004 – Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2007 – The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day.
2012 – Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1844 – George W. De Long, American Naval officer and explorer, expedition to find the open polar sea (d. 1881)
1862 – Claude Debussy, French pianist and composer (d. 1918)
1896 – Laurence McKinley Gould, American geologist, educator, and polar explorer (d. 1995)
1908 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (d. 2004)
1918 – Mary McGrory, American journalist and author (d. 2004)
1920 – Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1934 – Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general and engineer (d. 2012)
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