On this day…

1504 France & Spain signs ceasefire
1521 Magelhaes takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus
1644 Pope Urbanus VIII & duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara
1657 English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown
1667 France/England sign anti-Dutch military accord
1683 Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey
1745 Jews are expelled from Prague
1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris France
1849 Colonel John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of San Francisco
1854: U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry signed the Treaty of Kanagawa in Japan, ending that country’s period of seclusion.
1861 Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans
1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on the Mississippi River
1865 Battle of Boydton, Virginia (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie Court House)
1865 General Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg
1868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
1885 Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate
1900 Brigadier-General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands
1903 Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (New Zealand)
1907 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers’ revolt
1916 Dutch government ends all military engagements
1917 US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M & renames them Virgin Islands
1923 French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die
1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler
1939 Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany
1940 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956)
1941 Germany begins a counter offensive in Africa
1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326
1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars
1945 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine
1945 Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen
1945 US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa
1948 Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
1951 US tanks exceed 38ยบ of latitude in Korea
1954 USSR offers to join NATO
1958 US Navy forms atomic sub division
1958 USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same
1964 President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military
1965 US ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam
1966 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in New York NY
1971 William L Calley Jr sentenced to life for My Lai Massacre
1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 Soviet Republic of Georgia endorsed independence; Warsaw Pact dissolves