FOFOLINA
04-15-2002, 03:36 PM
1813 U.S. troops under James Wilkinson attacked the Spanish-held city of Mobile which would be in the future state of Alabama.
1817 The first American school for the deaf was opened in Hartford, Connecticut.
1850 The city of San Francisco was incorporated.
1865 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died from injuries inflicted by John Wilkes Booth.
1880 William Gladstone became Prime Minister of England.
1912 The ocean liner Titanic sank at 2:27 a.m. in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. More than 700 people survived
1917 The British defeated the Germans at the battle of Arras.
1919 British troops killed 400 Indians at Amritsar, India.
1945 During World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.
1952 U.S. President Harry Truman signed the official Japanese peace treaty
1955
Ray Kroc started the McDonald's restaurant chain
1986 U.S. F-111 warplanes attacked Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5, 1986.
1987 In Northhampton, MA, Amy Carter, Abbie Hoffman and 13 others were acquitted on civil disobedience charges related to a CIA protest.
1989 Students in Beijing launched a series of pro democracy protests upon the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang. The protests led to the Tiananmen Square massacre.
1998 Pol Pot died at the age of 73. The leader of the Khmer Rouge regime thereby evaded prosecution for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians.
1817 The first American school for the deaf was opened in Hartford, Connecticut.
1850 The city of San Francisco was incorporated.
1865 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died from injuries inflicted by John Wilkes Booth.
1880 William Gladstone became Prime Minister of England.
1912 The ocean liner Titanic sank at 2:27 a.m. in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. More than 700 people survived
1917 The British defeated the Germans at the battle of Arras.
1919 British troops killed 400 Indians at Amritsar, India.
1945 During World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.
1952 U.S. President Harry Truman signed the official Japanese peace treaty
1955
Ray Kroc started the McDonald's restaurant chain
1986 U.S. F-111 warplanes attacked Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5, 1986.
1987 In Northhampton, MA, Amy Carter, Abbie Hoffman and 13 others were acquitted on civil disobedience charges related to a CIA protest.
1989 Students in Beijing launched a series of pro democracy protests upon the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang. The protests led to the Tiananmen Square massacre.
1998 Pol Pot died at the age of 73. The leader of the Khmer Rouge regime thereby evaded prosecution for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians.