Major Events
- 1461 Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor
- 1714 Battle of Gangut: Russian Navy wins its first major victory during the Great Northern War against Sweden
- 1782 Commander of the Continental Army, George Washington, creates two Honorary Badges of Distinction and a Badge of Military Merit (now the Purple Heart). First time military awards are presented to common soldiers.
- 1933 Iraqi government forces slaughter over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele in northern Iraq, commemorated as Assyrian Martyrs Day
- 1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan
- 1990 US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia, beginning Operation Desert Shield
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- 1929 NY Yankees slugger Babe Ruth ties MLB record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games for the second time in a 13-1 win against the Philadelphia Athletics
Did You Know?
Valais witch trial proceedings begin in Valais Canton, Switzerland, the first organized witch trials
Famous Weddings
- 1869 German airship inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin (31) weds Isabella Freiin von Wolff from the house of Alt-Schwanenburg, in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, until his death in1917
- 1936 American “The Flintstones” animator William Hanna (26) weds Violet Blanch Wogatzke (23), until his death in 2001
- 1954 American country music singer-songwriter Johnny Cash (22) marries 1st wife Vivian Liberto (20) at St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church in San Antonio. Texas; divorce in 1966
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