On this day in..
47 BC Julius Caesar defeats Pharnaces at Zela in Syria and declares, "veni, vidi, vici," (I came, I saw, I conquered).
1776 The Continental Congress, having decided unanimously to make the Declaration of Independence, affixes the signatures of the other delegates to the document.
1802 Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed "Consul for Life" by the French Senate after a plebiscite from the French people.
1819 The first parachute jump from a balloon is made by Charles Guille in New York City.
1820 Born on this day John Tyndall, British physicist and the first scientist to show why the sky is blue.
1847 William A. Leidesdorff launches the first steam boat in San Francisco Bay.
1876 Wild Bill Hickok is shot while playing game of poker.
1918 A British force lands in Archangel, Russia, to support White Russian opposition to the Bolsheviks.
1934 German President Paul von Hindenburg dies and Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor.
1943 Lt. John F. Kennedy, towing an injured sailor, swims to a small island in the Solomon Islands. The night before, his boat, PT-109, had been split in half by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri.
1990 Iraqi forces invade neighbouring Kuwait.
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