On This Day in History |
|
|
|
1854 Great Britain and France declare war on Russia, expanding the Crimean War. |
 | Henri Fabre at the controls of his hydroplane. Three floats, connected to the
aircraft by thin struts, trail white wake in the water. |
|
1910 First seaplane takes off from water under its own power, piloted by Henri Fabre from the Étang de Berre lagoon at Martigues, France. |
1939 Spanish Civil War ends as Madrid falls to the Nationalists headed by Francisco Franco. |
1946 Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power. |
1979 A partial meltdown at Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the US results in the release of radioactive gas and iodine into the atmosphere but no deaths. |
|
|
|
|
|
Also Aristide Briand, Amancio Ortega (88) and Rodrigo Duterte (79) |
|
|
|
|
Also Marquis de Condorcet, Jim Thorpe and Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
|
|
|
|
On this day the ancient city of Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul, while the town of Angora became Ankara, the new capital of Turkey. |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment