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Today in History


1598
Henry IV signs Treaty of Vervins, ending Spain's interference in France.
1670
The Hudson Bay Company is founded.
1748
Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of Devolution in France.
1776
France and Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British.
1797
A mutiny in the British navy spreads from Spithead to the rest of the fleet.
1798
The black General Toussaint Louverture forces British troops to agree to evacuate the port of Santo Domingo.
1808
The citizens of Madrid rise up against Napoleon.
1813
Napoleon defeats a Russian and Prussian army at Grossgorschen.
1863
Stonewall Jackson smashes Joseph Hooker's flank at Chancellorsville, Virginia.
1865
President Andrew Johnson offers a $100,000 reward for the capture of the Confederate President

1885
King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State.
1890
The Territory of Oklahoma is created.
1919
The first U.S. air passenger service starts.
1923
Lieutenants Oakley Kelly and John Macready take off from New York for the West Coast on what will become the first successful nonstop transcontinental flight.
1941
Hostilities break out between British forces in Iraq and that country's pro-German faction.

1942
Admiral Chester J. Nimitz, convinced that the Japanese will attack Midway Island, visits the island to review its readiness.
1945
Russian forces take Berlin after 12 days of fierce house-to-house fighting.
1946
Prisoners revolt at California's Alcatraz prison.
1968
The U.S. Army attacks Nhi Ha in South Vietnam and begins a fourteen-day battle to wrestle it away from Vietnamese Communists.
1970
Student anti-war protesters at Ohio's Kent State University burn down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard takes control of campus.










Joke of the Day.




What happens when you give a politician Viagra?



He gets taller.