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Today in History

1642
Dutch settlers slaughter lower Hudson Valley Indians in New Netherland, North America, who sought refuge from Mohawk attackers.
1779
The British surrender the Illinois country to George Rogers Clark at Vincennes.
1781
American General Nathaniel Greene crosses the Dan River on his way to attack Cornwallis.
1791
President George Washington signs a bill creating the Bank of the United States.
1804
Thomas Jefferson is nominated for president at the Democratic-Republican caucus.
1815
Napoleon leaves his exile on the island of Elba, returning to France.
1831
The Polish army halts the Russian advance into their country at the Battle of Grochow.
1836
Samuel Colt patents the first revolving cylinder multi-shot firearm.

1862
Confederate troops abandon Nashville, Tennessee, in the face of Grant's advance. The ironclad Monitor is commissioned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
1865
General Joseph E. Johnston replaces John Bell Hood as Commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.
1904
J.M. Synge's play Riders to the Sea opens in Dublin.
1910
The 13th Dalai Lama flees from the Chinese and takes refuge in India.
1913
The 16th Amendment to the constitution is adopted, setting the legal basis for the income tax.

1919
Oregon introduces the first state tax on gasoline at one cent per gallon, to be used for road construction.
1926
Poland demands a permanent seat on the League of Nations council.
1928
Bell Labs introduces a new device to end the fluttering of the television image.
1943
U.S. troops retake the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia, where they had been defeated five days before.
1944
U.S. forces destroy 135 Japanese planes in Marianas and Guam.

1952
French colonial forces evacuate Hoa Binh in Indochina.
1956
Stalin is secretly disavowed by Khrushchev at a party congress for promoting the "cult of the individual."
1976
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states may ban the hiring of illegal aliens.


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