Events in history
- Perry opens up Japan, July 7th 1853 Saturn/Alcyone-Pleiades
- February 21 1972: President Richard M. Nixon arrived in China for an eight-day official visit, opening up China to the West. - Saturn/Alcyone-Pleiades
- May 19th 1643, delegates from four New England colonies met in Boston to form a confederation. - Pluto/Hyadum 11
- Mar 23rd 1919, Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy. - SNode/Hyadum 11
- Comintern launched by Lenin to promote world revolution Mar 3 1919 - SNode/Aldebaran
- Mohandas Gandhi begins civil disobedience campaign, - Mar 12 1930 - Jupiter/Aldebaran
- Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanoff) proclaiming the victory of the "Proletarian Revolution" 1917 Nov 7, 14:35 (local time, e.g. timezone 2h 01m 11s E) in Petersburg (59^55N 30^20E). The date was assumed by most Polish astrologers as a "birth" of Communist Russia. - Jupiter/Aldebaran
- Feb 25th 1948, Communists seized power in Czechoslovakia. - Uranus/El Nath
- May 14th 1942, the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps was established. - Saturn and Uranus/Alcyone-Pleiades (Pleiades are associated with femininity).
- Statue of Liberty dedicated, Oct 28th 1886 - Neptune Pleiades/Alcyone-Pleiades, Pluto/Prima Hyadum
Mar 31st 1889, French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion. - Pluto/Prima Hyadum
- April 22 1889, the Oklahoma Land Rush began at noon as thousands of homesteaders staked claims. - Pluto/Prima Hyadum
- Collectivization of Soviet farms announced by Stalin Jan 5 1930 - Jupiter/Ain
- Jan 1st 1901, the Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed. - SNode/Alcyone-Pleiades
- Feb 23rd 1836, the siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas. Jupiter/Alcyone-Pleiades
- May 6th 1942, during World War Two, some 15-thousand Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese. - Saturn and Uranus/Alcyone-Pleiades
- Jan 30th 1972, 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." - Saturn/Alcyone-Pleiades (Ireland is associated with Taurus)
- Jan 24 1972, the Supreme Court struck down laws that denied welfare benefits to people who had resided in a state for less than a year. - Saturn/Alcyone-Pleiades
- April 17th 1975, Phnom Penh fell to Communist insurgents, ending Cambodia's five-year war. - SNode/Alcyone-Pleiades
- April 30th 1975, the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. - SNode/Alcyone-Pleiades
- Battle of Hastings, Oct 14 1066 - Neptune/Hyadum 11
- Battle of Tewkesbury, - May 4 1471 Saturn/Hyadum 11
- Mar 28th 1854, during the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia. - Saturn/Alcyone-Pleiades
- July 3rd 1863, the three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ended in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated. - SNode/Hyadum 11
- Alexandria bombarded by the British, July 11th 1882 SNode/Alcyone-Pleiades
- Boer war started 10 10 1899 - SNode/Al Hecka
- Peking stormed by Allies to end Boxer Rebellion Aug 14 1900 - SNode/Ain
- First Balkan War, Oct 8th 1912 - Saturn/Prima Hyadum
- Heir to Austro-Hungarian Empire assassinated in Sarajevo (started WW1) Jun 28 1914 - Saturn/Al Hecka
- March 12th, 1938, the "Anschluss" took place as German troops entered Austria, completing what Adolf Hitler described as his mission to restore his homeland to the Third Reich. - SNode/Alcyone-Pleiades
- April 9th 1940, Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. Venus and Mars/Prima Hyadum
- German armored troops began the invasion of Russia 6 22 1941 - Uranus/Alcyone-Pleiades, Jupiter/Hyadum 11
- Japanese attacked US at Pearl Harbor, war declared Dec 7 1941 - Uranus/Alcyone-Pleiades
- Jan 16th 1944, General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied Invasion Force in London. - Uranus/Prima Hyadum
- Invasion of Normandy, June 6th 1944 - Uranus/Aldebaran
- May 15th, 1948, hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. - Uranus/Al Hecka
- Jan 16th 1991, the White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. - Mars/Alcyone-Pleiades
- Mar 24th 1944, in occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that killed 32 German soldiers. - Uranus/Prima Hyadum
- April 9th 1942, American and Philippine defenders on Bataan capitulated to Japanese forces; the surrender was followed by the notorious "Bataan Death March" which claimed nearly ten-thousand lives. - Uranus/Alcyone-Pleiades
- Mar 31st 1889, French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion. Pluto/Prima Hyadum