Today in History - July 15 1099 - Jerusalem fell to the Crusaders. 1410 - Poles and Lithuanians defeated the Teutonic knights at Tannenburg, Prussia. 1789 - The electors of Paris set up a Commune to live without the authority of the government. 1806 - Lieutenant Zebulon Pike began his western expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine, near St. Louis, MO. 1813 - Napoleon Bonapartes representatives met with the Allies in Prague to discuss peace terms. 1834 - Lord Napier of England arrived in Macao, China as the first chief superintendent of trade. 1870 - Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union. 1876 - George Washington Bradley of St. Louis pitched the first no-hitter in baseball in a 2-0 win over Hartford. 1885 - In New York, the Niagara Reservation State Park opened. 1888 - Printers’ Ink was first sold. 1895 - Ex-prime minister of Bulgaria, Stephen Stambulov, was murdered by Macedonian rebels. 1901 - Over 74,000 Pittsburgh steel workers went on strike. 1904 - The first Buddhist temple in the U.S. was established in Los Angeles, CA. 1916 - In Seattle, WA, Pacific Aero Products was incorporated by William Boeing. The company was later renamed Boeing Co. 1918 - The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I. 1922 - The duck-billed platypus arrived in America, direct from Australia. It was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo in New York City. 1942 - The first supply flight from India to China over the Hump was carried to help Chinas war effort. 1958 - Five thousand U.S. Marines landed in Beirut, Lebanon, to protect the pro-Western government. The troops withdrew October 25, 1958. 1965 - The spacecraft Mariner IV sent back the first close-up pictures of the planet Mars. 1968 - ABC-TV premiered One Life to Live. 1968 - Commercial air travel began between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., when the first plane, a Soviet Aeroflot jet, landed at Kennedy International Airport in New York. 1971 - U.S. President Nixon announced he would visit the Peoples Republic of China to seek a normalization of relations. 1973 - Nolan Ryan (California Angels) became the first pitcher in two decades to win two no-hitters in a season. (California) 1981 - Steven Ford, son of former President Gerald R. Ford, appeared in a seduction scene of The Young and the Restless on CBS-TV. Ford played the part of Andy. 1985 - Baseball players voted to strike on August 6th if no contract was reached with baseball owners. The strike turned out to be just a one-day interruption. 1987 - Taiwan ended thirty-seven years of martial law. 2009 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released in theaters in the U.S. It was the sixth movie in the series. Source: On-This-Day
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:43:30 +0000
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