On This Day in History |
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585 BC Solar eclipse, as predicted by Greek philosopher Thales, while Lydians at war with the Medes leads to a truce. One of the cardinal dates from which other dates calculated. |
1431 Joan of Arc is accused of relapsing into heresy by donning male clothing again, providing justification for her execution |
1588 King Philip II dispatches the Spanish Armada under the Duke of Medina-Sidonia from Lisbon, Portugal to invade England. |
 | The Trail of Tears, painting by Robert Lindneux, 1942 |
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1830 US President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, a key law leading to the forced removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes out of Georgia and surrounding states, setting the stage for the Cherokee Trail of Tears. |
 | On Computable Numbers by Alan Turing |
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1936 Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication, in which he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers. |
1972 White House "plumbers" first break in at the Democratic National Headquarters and install listening devices at Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C. |
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After New Zealand’s Peter Blake crushed all opposition in the 1989-90 Whitbread round the world race an all-female crew came home on this day, stealing the show |
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