Yesterday's history, today's story, today's events in history 4 centuries BC 3 centuries BC 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century birth and death

Yesterday's History, Today's Story, Historical Today's (22)

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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > 4 centuries BC</h1>

338 BC: Battle of Caronia in ancient Greece, where Macedonia defeats Athens and Thebes.

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216 BC: In the Second Punic War, the Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats the armies of the Roman Republic at the Battle of Canni.

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1608: The British massacre the Irish rebels who have taken refuge on Torrey Island.

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1790: The first census of the United States begins.

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1815: Prussia, Austria, Great Britain, and Russia agree that the British will make a decision to imprison Napoleon I, and Napoleon is exiled to St. Helena.

1830: King Charles X of France is forced to abdicate under the pressure of the July Revolution and goes into exile in England.

1860: Li Xiucheng, the loyal king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, broke the foreign gun brigade in Qingpu, Jiangsu Province, and the soldiers approached the city of Shanghai.

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1911: Zhao Erfeng is appointed Governor of Sichuan.

1914: World War I: German troops invade Luxembourg and the Western Front erupts.

1918: Johnston becomes Puyi's English teacher.

1921: The First National Congress of the Communist Party of China concludes in Nanhu, Jiaxing, Zhejiang.

1922: Listed by the China Meteorological Administration as the first of the top ten meteorological disasters of the 20th century, the Shantou Typhoon blew Shantou in 1922, killing 50,000-100,000 people.

1923: Calvin Coolidge succeeds him as President of the United States.

1934: Bundeswehr President Hindenburg dies and Chancellor Hitler takes over the presidency as Führer and Chancellor of the Reich.

1935: The British enact the Indian Government Act, dividing India into 11 autonomous provinces, but the British Parliament retains final control.

1939: World War II: Physicist Albert Einstein wrote to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arguing that the United States should begin an atomic bomb research program.

1945: World War II: U.S. President Harry Truman, British Prime Minister Attlee, and Soviet leader Stalin issue the Potsdam Declaration.

1949: Stuart Leiden leaves China and returns to the United States.

1959: The Eighth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee (Lushan Conference) was held in Lushan.

1972: The Hong Kong Undersea Tunnel is opened, symbolizing the connection of Hong Kong Island to the Kowloon Peninsula.

1980: The 65th Esperanto Congress is held in Stockholm.

1986: Malaysia holds its 7th elections, which are won by the National Front led by Mahathir Mohd.

1990: Iraq invades Kuwait and the Gulf War breaks out.

1996: Windsurfer Li Shan wins Hong Kong's first Olympic gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics.

1997: Intense tropical storm Victor hits Hong Kong.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="47" > was born</h1>

1776 : Friedrich Stromeier, chemist, discoverer of cadmium.

1788 : Leopold Gmelin, chemist

1824: Francesca, Princess of the Empire of Brazil (d. 1898)

1891: Sir Arthur Bliss, English composer (died 1975)

1901: Jack Warner, founder of Warner Bros. Pictures (died 1978)

1924: James Baldwin, American writer, novelist, poet, playwright and social activist (d. 1987)

1932: Peter Otto, Hollywood actor (died 2013)

1942: Isabe Allende, Chilean writer

1954: Sir Tang Wing Chun, Hong Kong philanthropist and entrepreneur (d. 2017)

1958: Quickwater Award, Voice Actor in Japanese Animation

1961: Cui Jian, Chinese rock singer

1964: Mary-Louise Parker, American actress

1965: Wu Junru, Hong Kong actor

1970: Kevin Smith, American male director

1976: Sam Worthington, Australian actor

1992: Charlie M. XCX, British singer

1996: Chen Haosen, Taiwanese actor

Lai Huiru is a Taiwanese actress and singer

1998: Cai Xukun, Chinese actor, singer, captain of NINE PERCENT

Chen Jue, China Talent Show Youth has you 2 trainees

1999: Lee Min-hyung, member of the South Korean boy band NCT

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1589: Henry III, King of France (born 1551)

1611: Kiyomasa Kato, a japanese warlord and daimyō of the sengoku period and early Edo period, the first lord of Kumamoto Domain, and a master of castle buildings such as Kumamoto Castle, Ulsan Castle, Edo Castle, nagoya Castle, etc. (born 1562)

1922: Alexander Graham Bell, American scientist (1847)

1923: Warren M. G. Harding, President of the United States (born 1865)

1931: Feng Pingshan, Hong Kong entrepreneur and philanthropist (b. 1860)

1934: Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany (born 1847)

1947: Shen Jianshi, Chinese and Chinese philologist and archivist. (born 1887)

1996: Mohammed Farah Aideed, Somali warlord (born 1934)

1997 William Berrotz, American writer (born 1914)

2007: Bai Wenbiao, Hong Kong actor (born 1921)

2008: Fujio Akasaki, Japanese manga artist (born 1935)