Today in History in 1789 George Washington was inaugurated as first President of the United States of America; in 1900 USA annexed Hawaii; and in 1904 the ice cream cone made its debut.
Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:
Historical Events
311 - Roman Emperor Galerius issues Edict of Toleration, ending persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
711 - Islamic conquest of Iberia: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1492 - Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet
1562 - 1st French colonists in North America: Jean Ribault & colonists arrive in Florida
1789 - George Washington inaugurated as first president of the United States of America
1859 - Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is first published in literary periodical All the Year Round, continues in weekly installments until Nov 26
1863 - -5/1] Battle of Snyder's Bluff, Virginia (part of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War): General Sherman beaten by Confederate forces
1900 - USA annexes Hawaii
1900 - Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
1904 - Ice cream cone makes its debut
1907 - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
1974 - US President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings
2009 - Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Famous Birthdays
1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematician
1893 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister (d. 1946)
1895 - Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (d. 1960)
1896 - Gary Davis, Laurens SC, blues/folk guitarist (A Little More Faith)
1905 - John Peters Humphrey, Hampton, New Brunswick, Canadian jurist and human rights advocate (Universal Declaration on Human Rights)
1938 - Gary Collins, Venice California, actor (6th Sense, Home Show), (d. 2012)
1974 - Agnes Moorehead, American actress (Endora-Bewitched), dies of uterine cancer at 73
1983 - George Balanchine, Russian/US ballet composer/choreographer, dies from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease at 79
1983 - Muddy Waters, US blues singer/guitarist (Mad Love), dies at 70
1983 - Joel H. Hildebrand, American Chemist whose research led to new treatments for divers with the 'bends' through the use of helium and oxygen breathing mixtures, dies at 101
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