| On The Way To Today... April 17th |
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Today In History
On The Way To Today... April 17th
1194 - The second coronation of King Richard I of England took place
upon his return from the Third Crusade.
1421 - The sea broke through the dikes at Dort in the Netherlands,
drowning more than 100,000 people.
1492 - Christopher Columbus received a commission from the Spanish
monarchy to explore the "western ocean."
1629 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony imported horses the American
colonies today.
successful American newspaper, the Boston "News-Letter".
1864 - In the Schleswig Holstein-Prussian War, 16,000 Prussians under
Prince Frederick Charles stormed the fortress at Dueppel held by
22,000 Danes. More than 5,500 Danes died in the attack.
1895 - The Sino-Japanese War ended with the Treaty of Shimonoseki,
whereby China and Japan recognized Korea's independence and China
ceded Formosa to Japan.
1917 - A bill in Congress to begin what was called Daylight Savings
Time was defeated.
1927 - Mae West was given a 10-day jail sentence and fined $500 for
her role in the play that she wrote and performed in, Sex.
1933 - For the first time on radio, backed by the "On the Trail"
to match the accompanying music. This phrase became one of the most
1935 - For the first time, people gathered around the radio to listen
to what would become the ultimate horror show, NBC Radio's "Lights
Out", which stayed on radio until 1952.
1941 - Near Stratford, Connecticut, Igor Sikorsky accomplished the
first successful helicopter lift-off from water.
1941 - The entire Yugoslav army and government surrendered to the
Germans in Belgrade.
1942 - The first issue of Stars and Stripes, a new U.S. Army weekly
newspaper, was published in London.
1961 - An attempt to invade Cuba by United States-backed Cuban exiles
failed at the Bay of Pigs. The three-day battle left 100 killed and
more than 1,000 captured.
1969 - Sirhan B. Sirhan was found guilty of the first-degree murder of
Robert F. Kennedy, shot while campaigning in California in June 1968.
1970 - The United States spacecraft Apollo 13 splashed down after a
near-disastrous trip to the moon.
1975 - Khmer Rouge guerrillas seized Phnom Penh and began a reign of
terror in which more than one million people died.
1977 - Women voted in Liechtenstein for the first time.
1981 - Polish farmers won the legal right to form a trade union.
1986 - British journalist John McCarthy was kidnapped in Beirut. He
was released in August 1991, by the Islamic Jihad.
1986 - Britons Philip Padfield, John Leigh Douglas and American Peter
Kilburn were found shot dead. The pro-Libyan Revolutionary Cells said
it killed them in retaliation for the United States bombing of Libya.
1989 - The Polish trade union Solidarity was legalized after a
seven-year ban.
1996 - Police gunned down 19 landless peasants in one of Brazil's
bloodiest massacres.
1996 - United States President Bill Clinton and Japanese Prime
Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto signed a joint declaration on security
cooperation that pledges to maintain United States military force
levels in both Japan and elsewhere in Asia.
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