On This Day in History |
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 | Capture of Aleppo by the Byzantines under Nikephoros II Phokas |
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962 Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under future Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine troops storm the city of Aleppo, recovering the tattered tunic of John the Baptist. |
1688 King James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch flees to France from William of Orange. |
1783 US General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army to Congress. |
1888 Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear with a razor, after argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, and sends to a female courtesan for safe keeping. |
1920 Government of Ireland Act / Home Rule Act passed partitioning Ireland. |
1954 The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. |
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Architect and inventor Joseph Hansom was a man of vision who somehow found it impossible to turn his great ideas into money-making ventures. |
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