On This Day in:
1618 – Johann Kepler discovered the third Law of Planetary Motion.
1702 – England’s Queen Anne took the throne upon the death of King William III.
1782 – The Gnadenhutten massacre took place. About 90 Indians were killed by militiamen in Ohio in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
1853 – The first bronze statue of Andrew Jackson is unveiled in Washington, DC.
1855 – A train passed over the first railway suspension bridge at Niagara
1862 – The Confederate ironclad “Merrimack” was launched.
1880 – U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes declared that the United States would have jurisdiction over any canal built across the isthmus of Panama.
1887 – The telescopic fishing rod was patented by Everett Horton.
1894 – A dog license law was enacted in the state of New York. It was the first animal control law in the U.S.
1904 – The Bundestag in Germany lifted the ban on the Jesuit order of priests.
1905 – In Russia, it was reported that the peasant revolt was spreading to Georgia.
1907 – The British House of Commons turned down a women’s suffrage bill.
1909 – Pope Pius X lifted the church ban on interfaith marriages in Hungary.
1910 – In France, Baroness de Laroche became the first woman to obtain a pilot’s license.
1910 – The King of Spain authorized women to attend universities.
1911 – In Europe, International Women’s Day was celebrated for the first time.
1911 – British Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Gray declared that Britain would not support France in the event of a military conflict.
1917 – Russia’s “February Revolution” began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg. The revolution was called the “February Revolution” due to Russia’s use of the Old Style calendar.
1917 – The U.S. Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture
1921 – Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato was assassinated while leaving the Parliament in Madrid.
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