1582: Famed Japanese warlord, Oda Nobunaga of the Sengoku-Jidai Era, dies during a coup d’etat
1854: The first Victoria Cross is awarded
1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States Mainland
The front and back of the famed Victoria Cross(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
1837: Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne
1877: Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
2003: The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida
The Wikimedia logo (Image via CrunchBase)
1846: The first officially recorded, organized baseball match is played under Alexander Cartwright’s rules on Hoboken, New Jersey’s Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1
1961: Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom
1991: The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends as the Soviet Union collapses
Early baseball game played at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom
1900: Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families
2009: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite rocket off the launch pad at Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
1885: The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor from France
1910: Father’s Day is founded in Spokane, Washington
1992: A “joint understanding” agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin
The START II Agreement being signed in 1992 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
1429: Hundred Years’ War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau
1942: Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday
1990: Russia Day – the parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty
Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin on Russia Day in 2001 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
1805: A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory
1937: The Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leader
1944: USS Missouri (BB-63) the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned
The USS Missouri in the 1980′s (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
