1258 Hulagu,
a Mongol leader, seizes Baghdad, bringing an end to the Abbasid caliphate.
1620 Supporters
of Marie de Medici, the queen mother, who has been exiled to Blois, are
defeated by the king's troops at Ponts de Ce, France.
1763 The
Treaty of Paris ends the French-Indian War. France gives up all her territories
in the New World except New Orleans and a few scattered islands.
1799 Napoleon
Bonaparte leaves Cairo, Egypt, for Syria, at the head of 13,000 men.
1814 Napoleon
personally directs lightning strikes against enemy columns advancing toward
Paris, beginning with a victory over the Russians at Champaubert.
1840 Queen
Victoria marries Prince Albert.
1846 Led
by religious leader Brigham Young, the first Mormons begin a long westward
exodus from Nauvoo, Il., to Utah.
1863 P.T.
Barnum's star midgets, Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, are married.
1904 Russia
and Japan declare war on each other.
1915 President
Wilson blasts the British for using the U.S. flag on merchant ships to deceive
the Germans.
1939 Japanese
occupy island of Hainan in French Indochina.
1941 London
severs diplomatic relations with Romania.
1941 Iceland
is attacked by German planes.
1942 The
war halts civilian car production at Ford.
1945 B-29s
hit the Tokyo area.
1955 Bell
Aircraft displays a fixed-wing vertical takeoff plane.
1960 Adolph
Coors, the beer brewer, is kidnapped in Golden, Colo.
1966 Protester
David Miller is convicted of burning his draft card.
1979 The
Metropolitan Museum announces the first major theft in its 110-year history,
$150,000 Greek marble head.
1986 The
largest Mafia trial in history, with 474 defendants, opens in Palermo, Italy.
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