On This Day in History |
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 | The Bellingshausen expedition's two sloops-of-war, Mirny and Vostok |
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1820 Russian Antarctic Expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev discover the continent of Antarctica. |
 | The Trail of Tears, painting by Robert Lindneux, 1942 |
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1825 US Congress approves Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for the forced relocation of the Eastern Indian tribes via the "Trail of Tears". |
1924 Vladimir Lenin is placed in a Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow. |
1944 Siege of Leningrad lifted by the Soviets after 880 days and more than 2 million Russians killed. |
1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camps in Poland, commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. |
1973 Paris Peace Accords signed by US Secretary of State William P. Rogers, (North) Vietnam Minister for Foreign Affairs Nguyen Duy Trinh, Republic of South Vietnam Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyễn Thị Bình, and Republic of Vietnam Minister for Foreign Affairs Trần Văn Lắm, ending America’s then longest war and it's military draft. |
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Also Nerva, André the Giant and Suharto. |
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German Emperor 'Kaiser Bill,' was born on this day, strong-willed and determined to overcome the deformity that afflicted him from birth. |
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