Tuesday, March 26, 2019

From Historynet: Today in History March 26


1517          The famous Flemish composer 
Heinrich Issac Image result for Heinrich Isaac dies.

1799          Napoleon Bonaparte Image result for Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa, Palestine.

1804          Congress orders the removal of Indians east of the Mississippi River to Louisiana.

1804          The territory of New Orleans is organized in the Louisiana Purchase.

1827          German composer Ludwig Van Beethoven Image result for Ludwig Van Beethoven dies in Vienna. He had been deaf for the later part of his life, but said on his death bed "I shall hear in heaven."

1832          Famed western artist George Catlin Image result for George Catlin begins his voyage up the Missouri River aboard the American Fur Company steamship Yellowstone.

1885          Eastman Film Co. manufactures the first commercial motion picture film.

1913          The Balkan allies take Adrianople.

1918          On the Western Front, the Germans take the French towns Noyon, Roye and Lihons.

1938          Hermann Goering Image result for Hermann Goering warns all Jews to leave Austria.

1942          The Germans begin sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland.

1950          Senator Joe McCarthy Image result for Senator Joe McCarthy names 
Owen Lattimore Image result for Owen Lattimore, an ex-State Department adviser, as a Soviet spy.

1951          The United States Air Force flag design is approved.

1953          Eisenhower Image result for Eisenhower offers increased aid to the French fighting in Indochina.

1953          Dr. Jonas Salk Image result for Dr. Jonas Salk announces a new vaccine against polio.

1954          The United States sets off an H-bomb blast in the Marshall Islands, the second in four weeks.

1961          John F. Kennedy Image result for John F. Kennedy meets with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan Image result for Harold Macmillan in Washington to discuss increased Communist involvement in Laos.

1969          The Soviet weather Satellite Meteor 1 is launched.

1969          Writer John Kennedy Toole Image result for John Kennedy Toole commits suicide at the age of 32. His mother helps get his first and only novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, published. It goes on to win the 1981 Pulitzer Prize.

1979          The Camp David treaty is signed between Israel and Egypt.

1982          Ground is broken in Washington D.C. for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

1989          The first free elections take place in the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin is elected.

1992          An Indianapolis court finds heavyweight boxing champion 
Mike Tyson Image result for Mike Tyson guilty of rape.


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