Today in world history.

 

2015 - France launches air strike on ISIS stronghold in Raqqa in Syria in the wake of terror
            attack on Paris .

2014 - A 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes under the molucca sea in eastern indobesia,      
             triggering a tsunami warning.

2013 - Sony launches the PlayStation four ,selling one million unit on the first day.


2012 - The eurozone economy returns to recession .


2000 - New state of jharkhand comes into existence.


1999 - New transit of mercury visible in north America.


1837 - Isaac pitman introduces his shorthand system.


1835 - Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti on board HMS Beagle.


1813 - Tax revolt in Amsterdam.


1791 - First catholic college in US , Georgetown, opens.


1715 - Barrier treaty,Austria cedes area to Netherlands .


1688 - Prince Willem lll's army lands at Torbay,England, the glorious revolution commences.


1577 - Sir Francis Drake aboard Pelican travels from Chile to Washington.


1532 - Pope Clemens vll tells Henry vlll to end relationship with Anna Boleyn .


1515 - Thomas Wolsey is invested as a cardinal .


1492 - In LA Guardia , spain, 6 Jews and 5 conversos are accused of ritual murder .


1348 - Rudolph o Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells.


1315 - Battle of Morgarlen ;Swiss beat duke Leopoid l of Austria.


1988 - PLO proclaims state of Palestine, recognizes Israeli evidence.


1948 - Mackenzie King retires after 22 years as prime minister of Canada .


1884 - Colonization of Africa organized at international conference in Berlin .


1492 - Christopher Columbus notes first recorded reference to tobacco.


2002 - Hu jintao replaced Jiang Zemin as China's communist party leader .

1969 - About ,250,000 protester against the Vietnam ,the largest war protest ever ,        
           conversed peacefully in Washington, DC.

1939 - The corner stone of the Jefferson memorial was laid by president Rossevelt.


1777 - The continental congress approved the Articles Of Confederation, the procursor to                 the US constitution.