On this day in History in 97 Emperor Nerva was forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor. In 312 Constantine I defeated Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, becoming the sole Roman emperor. In 456 the Visigoths brutally sacked the Suebis capital of Braga (Portugal), churches were burnt to the ground. In 1420 Beijing was officially designated the capital of the Ming Dynasty on the same year that the Forbidden City, the seat of government, was completed. In 1664 the Duke of York and Albanys Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, was established. In 1775 a British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston. In 1834 the Battle of Pinjarra was fought in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines were killed by British colonists. In 1864 the Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks) ended. Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdrew from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia. In 1886 in New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty. In 1918 Czechoslovakia was granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of an independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years. In 1919 the U.S. Congress passed the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilsons veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January. In 1922 Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini marched on Rome and took over the Italian government. In 1942 the Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) was completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska. In 1962 end of Cuban missile crisis, Nikita Khrushchev ordered the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 08:47:41 +0000
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