April 16: Patriots' Day in Maine and Massachusetts (2018)
Harriet Quimby
- 1818 – The United States Senate ratified the Rush–Bagot Treaty, which laid the basis for a demilitarized boundary between the U.S. and British North America.
- 1847 – New Zealand Wars: A minor Māori chief was accidentally shot by a junior British Army officer in the Petre settlement of New Zealand's North Island, triggering the Wanganui Campaign.
- 1912 – American Harriet Quimby (pictured) became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
- 1917 – Vladimir Lenin returned to Petrograd from Switzerland, and joined the Bolshevik movement in Russia.
- 2001 – India and Bangladesh began a five-day conflict over their disputed border, which ended in a stalemate.
Molly Brant (d. 1796) · Ponnambalam Ramanathan (b. 1851) · Khalil al-Wazir (d. 1988)
from Wikipedia "On this day..." feed https://ift.tt/2H2OUop
0 commentaires:
Enregistrer un commentaire