Events in history
- April 22 1509, Henry the Eighth ascended the throne of England following the death of his father, Henry the Seventh. - Saturn/Copula
- Jan 28th 1547, England's King Henry the Eighth died; he was succeeded by his nine-year-old son, Edward the Sixth. - Uranus/Cor Caroli
- April 26th 1607, an expedition of English colonists, including Captain John Smith, went ashore at Cape Henry, Virginia, to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere. - NNode/Asterion
- Mar 4th 1681, England's King Charles the Second granted a charter to William Penn for an area of land that later became Pennsylvania. - NNode/Copula
- May 10th 1774, Louis the 16th ascended the throne of France. - NNode/Cor Caroli
- April 14th 1775, the first American society for the abolition of slavery was organized by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush. - Neptune/Cor Caroli
- May 4th 1776, Rhode Island declared its freedom from England, two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted. - Neptune/Copula
- On July fourth, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. - Neptune /Cor Caroli
- April 30th 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France. - Saturn/Asterion
- Mar 30th 1867, US Secretary of State William H. Seward reached agreement with Russia to purchase the territory of Alaska for $7.2 million, a deal roundly ridiculed as "Seward's Folly." - NNode/Copula
- Jan 20 1936, Britain's King George the Fifth died; he was succeeded by Edward the Eighth. - Neptune/Asterion
- German forces overran Denmark and invaded Norway Apr 8 1940 - Neptune/Cor Caroli
- May 17th 1940, the Nazis occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War Two. - Neptune/Cor Caroli
- Nelson wins Battle of the Nile, Aug 1 1798 - Uranus/Asterion
- May 6th 1941, dictator Josef Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership, replacing Vyacheslav M. Molotov. He was responsible for the deaths of at least 20 million people including whole nations. - Neptune/Copula
- In 1942, the Philippine capital of Manila was captured by Japanese forces during World War Two. - NNode /Asterion
- Feb 24th 1945, American soldiers liberated the Philippine capital of Manila from Japanese control during World War Two. - Jupiter/Copula
- May 2nd 1945, the Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin, after Adolf Hitler committed suicide and the Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria. - Jupiter/Asterion
- Jan 10th 1967, Massachusetts Republican Edward W. Brooke, the first black elected to the U-S Senate by popular vote, took his seat. - Uranus/Cor Caroli
- Mar 17th 1969, Golda Meir became prime minister of Israel. - Pluto/Cor Caroli
- July 1st 1988 A four-day national conference of Soviet Communist Party members ended in Moscow, with Mikhail S. Gorbachev winning approval for sweeping changes. - SNode/Asterion
- July 3rd 1988 The USS "Vincennes" shot down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard, after the Vincennes crew misidentified the plane as an Iranian F-14 fighter. - SNode/Asterion
- May 2nd 1994, Nelson Mandela claimed victory in the wake of South Africa's first democratic elections; President F.W. de Klerk acknowledged defeat. - SNode/Copula
- May 2nd 1997 Tony Blair, whose new Labor Party crushed John Major's long-reigning Conservatives in a national election, became at age 44 Britain's youngest prime minister in 185 years. - Mars/Asterion
- February 25th, 1793, the department heads of the US government met with President Washington at his home for the first Cabinet meeting on record. - NNode/Asterion
- April 4th 1850, the city of Los Angeles was incorporated. - Jupiter/Asterion
- April 16th 1862, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia became law. Saturn/Asterion
- Mar 22nd 1882, Congress outlawed polygamy. - Uranus/Asterion
- Mar 23rd 1933, the German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, which effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers. - Jupiter/Asterion
- Mar 18th 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini held a meeting at the Brenner Pass during which the Italian dictator agreed to join in Germany's war against France and Britain. - Neptune/Copula
- Feb 26th 1940, the United States Air Defense Command was created. - Neptune/Copula
- Jan 20th 1942, Nazi officials held the notorious Wannsee conference, during which they arrived at their "final solution" that called for exterminating Europe's Jews. - Uranus /Asterion
- February tenth, 1967, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, went into effect. - Uranus/Cor Caroli
- Gay liberation chart June 28th 1969 00:10 EDT New York - SNode /Copula
- April 30th 1970, President Nixon announced the US was sending troops into Cambodia, an action that sparked widespread protest. - Pluto/Copula
- March 26th, 1979, the Camp David peace treaty was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White House. - NNode/Asterion
- Feb 9th 1988 A day after Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced that Soviet troops could start withdrawing from Afghanistan by the following May, US officials welcomed the offer, but urged a swifter timetable for total withdrawal. - SNode/Copula
- Feb 10th 1988 A three-judge panel of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco struck down the Army's ban on homosexuals, saying gays were entitled to the same protection against discrimination as racial minorities. (However, the ruling was later set aside by the full appeals court.) - SNode /Copula
- Mar 21 1997 President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin wrapped up their summit in Helsinki, Finland, still deadlocked over NATO expansion, but able to agree on slashing nuclear weapons arsenals. - Mars/Copula