This Day in History
08 Jul 1099
First Crusade 15000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on
08 Jul 1579
Our Lady of Kazan a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church was discovered underground in the city of Kazan Tatarstan
08 Jul 1672
William III is appointed stadholder by the States General in the Netherlands
08 Jul 1680
The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge Massachusetts
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North Korea s Great Leader dies
Kim Il-Sung the communist dictator of North Korea since 1948 dies of a heart attack at the age of 82.In the 1930s Kim fought against the Japanese occupation ...
MacArthur named Korean commander
The day after the U.N. Security Council recommended that all U.N. forces in Korea be placed under the command of the U.S. military General Douglas MacArthur t...
Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay
Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry representing the U.S. government sails into Tokyo Bay Japan with a squadron of four vessels. For a time Japanese official...
Paris celebrates 2 000th birthday
On this day in 1951 Paris the capital city of France celebrates turning 2000 years old. In fact a few more candles wouldve technically been require...
German general s diary reveals Hitler s plans for Russia
On this day in 1943 upon the German armys invasion of Pskov 180 miles from Leningrad Russia the chief of the German army general staff General Fran...
Ernest Hemingway wounded on the Italian front
On this day in 1918 Ernest Hemingway an 18-year-old ambulance driver for the American Red Cross is struck by a mortar shell while serving on the Italian fron...
First Americans killed in South Vietnam
Maj. Dale R. Ruis and Master Sgt. Chester M. Ovnand become the first Americans killed in the American phase of the Vietnam War when guerrillas strike a Military...
Soapy Smith killed in Skagway Alaska
A disgruntled city engineer in Skagway Alaska murders Soapy Smith one of the most notorious con men in the history of the West.Born in Georgia ...
A spiteful son kills four in a fit of rage
Rose Booher her son Fred and two hired workers are all shot to death on a secluded farm in Mannville Alberta Canada while the rest of the Booher family is ...
Colonel Castillo Armas takes power in Guatemala
Col. Carlos Castillo Armas is elected president of the junta that overthrew the administration of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman in late June 1954. T...
1996: Seven slashed in school machete attack
Three young children and four adults have been attacked by a man with a machete at an infant school in Wolverhampton.They were enjoying a teddy bears picnic ...
2005: G8 leaders agree $50bn aid boost
The G8 summit has ended with an agreement to boost aid for developing countries by 50bn (28.8bn). The debt of the 18 poorest nations in Africa is als...
1965: Ronald Biggs escapes from jail
Ronald Biggs - a member of the gang who carried out the Great Train Robbery in 1963 - has escaped from Wandsworth prison.Biggs 35 escaped by scaling a 30f...
2003: Conjoined twins die in separation op
Conjoined Iranian twins who volunteered to go ahead with a major operation to separate them have both died during surgery.Laleh and Ladan Bijani suffered a ...
1971: British troops shoot Londonderry rioters
Two men have been killed by the British army in Londonderry Northern Ireland.Some of the worst violence in the town for three years flared up this afternoo...
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