On This Day in History | ||||||||
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Historical Events | ||||||||
1279 Mongolian victory in the naval Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. | ||||||||
1644 200 members of the Peking imperial family and court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor. | ||||||||
1863 Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, and medicines then valued over $1,000,000. Wreck discovered exactly 102 years later by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence. | ||||||||
1920 US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time, refusing to ratify the League of Nations' covenant and maintains a policy of isolation. | ||||||||
1932 The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened in Sydney, Australia. | ||||||||
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2003 Airstrikes by an American and British-led coalition signal the beginning of the Invasion of Iraq, without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion. | ||||||||
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Famous Birthdays | ||||||||
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Famous Deaths | ||||||||
Also the inventor of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs. | ||||||||
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Dr Livingstone, I Presume? | ||||||||
Explorer David Livingstone, born on this day, spawned one of the most famous encounters when he was found in Africa by journalist Henry Stanley. | ||||||||
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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