Northern fur seal
- 1456 – Twenty-five years after her death, Joan of Arc was declared innocent of heresy in a posthumous retrial.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces caught up with American troops withdrawing from Ticonderoga and captured over 200 men.
- 1911 – The United States, United Kingdom, Japan, and Russia signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention banning open-water seal hunting (Northern fur seal pictured), the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation issues.
- 1954 – After the culmination of the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, Carlos Castillo Armas was sworn in as President of Guatemala.
- 1997 – Iraqi Kurdish Civil War: The Turkish Armed Forces concluded Operation Hammer, having successfully destroyed Kurdistan Workers' Party units in Northern Iraq.
Guru Har Krishan (b. 1656) · Teresa Hsu Chih (b. 1898) · Arthur Conan Doyle (d. 1930)
from Wikipedia "On this day..." feed http://ift.tt/2tO9hSC
0 commentaires:
Enregistrer un commentaire