1688 William of Orange makes a triumphant
march into London as James II flees.
1694 George I of England 
gets divorced.
gets divorced.
1846 Iowa is admitted as the 29th State of
the Union.
1872 A U.S. Army force defeats a group of
Apache warriors at Salt River Canyon, Arizona Territory, with 57 Indians killed
but only one soldier.
1904 Farmers in Georgia burn two million
bales of cotton to prop up falling prices.
1920 The United States resumes the
deportation of communists and suspected communists.
1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt 
states, "The definite policy of the United States, from now on, is one
opposed to armed intervention."
states, "The definite policy of the United States, from now on, is one
opposed to armed intervention."
1936 Benito Mussolini sends planes to Spain
to support Francisco Franco's forces.
1938 France orders the doubling of forces
in Somaliland; two warships are sent.
1946 The French declare martial law in
Vietnam as a full-scale war appears inevitable.
1948 Premier Nokrashy Pasha of Egypt is
assassinated by a member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood because of his
failure to achieve victory in the war against Israel.
1951 The United States pays $120,000 to
free four fliers convicted of espionage in Hungary.
1965 The United States bars oil sales to
Rhodesia.
1968 Israel attacks an airport in Beirut,
destroying 13 planes.
1971 The U.S. Justice Department sues
Mississippi officials for ignoring the voting ballots of blacks in that state.
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