on this Day in Canadian History 1967 - Expo 67 closes in Montreal, on this Day in History 939 - Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England. 1275 - Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam. 1523 - English troops occupy Montalidier France 1627 - English assault on French Il de Ré 1644 - Second Battle of Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies 1651 - English troops occupy Limerick, Ireland 1682 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded. 1688 - King James II dismissses premier Robert Spencer 1702 - British troops plunder St Augustine, Florida 1795 - Treaty of San Lorenzo provides free navigation of Mississippi 1806 - The French Army enters in Berlin. 1810 - US annexes West Florida from Spain 1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated. 1864 - Confederate ship Albemarle torpedoed/sinks 1864 - Siege of Petersburg, VA 1920 - League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva 1920 - Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins 1925 - Water skis patented by Fred Waller 1938 - DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called nylon 1942 - 5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles/Australian advance 1942 - US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz 1954 - Walt Disneys 1st TV show, Disneyland, premieres on ABC 1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force. 1961 - 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test 1962 - Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba 1964 - Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians 1966 - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC 1966 - UN deprives South Africa of Namibia 1971 - Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic of Zaire 1972 - OPEC approves plan providing for 25 percent government ownership of all Western oil interests operating within Kuwait, Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia 1981 - The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. 1982 - China announces its population at 1 billion people plus 1985 - Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monets & 2 Renoirs 1990 - Horse Racing Breeders Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star, Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled 1997 - Intel Corp buys Digital Equipment for $700 million 1997 - US releases a redesigned $50 bill 1999 - Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members. 2005 - Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers. 2013 - Giorgi Margvelashvili wins the Georgian Presidential election in a landslide victory
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