1535: French explorer Jacques
Cartier sets sail for North America.
1536: Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s
second wife, is headed on Tower Green.
1568: Defeated by the Protestants,
Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England where Queen Elizabeth imprisons her
1588: The Spanish Armada sets
sail from Lisbon, Spain.
1608: The Protestant states from
the Evangelical Union of Lutherans and Calvinists.
1635: Cardinal Richelieu of
France intervenes in the great conflict in Europe by declaring war on the
Hapsburgs in Spain.
1780: Near total darkness on New
England at noon. No explanation is found.
1856: Senator Charles Sumner
speaks out against slavery.
1858: A pro-slavery band led by
Charles Hameton executes unarmed Free State men near Marais des Cygnes on the
Kansas-Missouri border.
1863: Union General Ulysses S.
Grant’s first attack on Vicksburg is repulsed.
1864: The Union and Confederate
armies launch their last attacks against each other at Spotsylvania, Virginia.
1921: Congress sharply curbs
immigration, setting a national quota system.
1935: The National Football
League adopts an annual college to draft to begin in 1936.
1964: U.S. diplomats find at
least 40 microphones planted in the American embassy in Moscow.
1967: U.S. planes bomb Hanoi for
the first time
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