This Day in History
15 Feb 1386
Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders
15 Feb 1539
Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo
15 Feb 1637
Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor
15 Feb 1686
Jean Baptiste Lullys opera Armide premieres in Paris
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Japan celebrates major victory in the Pacific
In one of the greatest defeats in British military history Britains supposedly impregnable Singapore fortress surrenders to Japanese forces after a wee...
Canada adopts maple leaf flag
In accordance with a formal proclamation by Queen Elizabeth II of England a new Canadian national flag is raised above Parliament Hill in Ottawa the capital o...
Victory at last for Earnhardt at Daytona
On February 15 1998 after 20 years of trying racing great Dale Earnhardt Sr. finally wins his first Daytona 500 the National Association for Stock Car Auto ...
The Maine explodes
A massive explosion of unknown origin sinks the battleship USS Maine in Cubas Havana harbor killing 260 of the fewer than 400 American crew members abo...
Mutiny breaks out among Indian soldiers in Singapore
In Singapore on this day in 1915 Indian soldiers launch the first large-scale mutiny of World War I. Some 800 soldiers in the Indian armys 5th Light I...
DeGaulle offers to help end Vietnam War
In response to a letter from Ho Chi Minh asking that French President Charles De Gaulle use his influence to prevent perfidious new maneuvers by t...
Chicago Eight defense attorneys sentenced
As the jury continues to deliberate in the trial of the Chicago Eight defense attorneys William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass and three of the defendants are ...
Dale Earnhardt wins first Daytona 500
After two decades of trying stock-car racing great Dale Earnhardt finally wins his first Daytona 500 NASCARs premier event on this day in 1998.Earnha...
First Teddy bear goes on sale
On this day in 1903 toy store owner and inventor Morris Michtom places two stuffed bears in his shop window advertising them as Teddy bears. Michtom had earli...
FDR escapes assassination in Miami
On this day in 1933 a deranged unemployed brick layer named Giuseppe Zangara shouts Too many people are starving and fires a gun at Americas presiden...
Wilson Hunt arrives at Astoria, Oregon
Having departed St. Louis more than two years earlier Wilson Hunt and his party stumble into the fur-trading post of Astoria Oregon.Later romanticized as the ...
Lillian Hellman sues Mary McCarthy
On this day in 1980 playwright Lillian Hellman filed a lawsuit claming 2.2 million in damages against novelist Mary McCarthy for libel.McCarthy a sarcastic a...
Broadway legend Ethel Merman dies
She was as big a star as the American stage ever produced a legend both in her own time and beyond it. She had neither the looks nor the dancing ability that t...
Disney’s Cinderella opens
On this day in 1950 Walt Disneys animated feature Cinderella opens in theaters across the United States.The Chicago-born Disney began his career as an ...
Oil tanker runs aground near Wales
On this day in 1996 a supertanker the Sea Empress runs aground near Wales spilling 70000 tons of crude oil. The oil spill did not take any human lives but...
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