Events in History for Friday May 6th 2016

1626 Dutch colonist Peter Minuit buys Manhattan Island from local Indians for 60 guilders worth of trinkets
1840 World’s first postage stamp, the Penny Black, is issued in Great Britain
1861 Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between the Union & the Confederacy
1889 Exposition Universelle (World Fair) opens in Paris with the completed Eiffel Tower
1890 Mormon Church renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman pub)]
1941 Joseph Stalin became Premier of Russia

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Events in History for Thursday April 28th 2016

1611 Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the oldest existing university in Asia and the largest Catholic university in the world.
1770 British Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, lands at Botany Bay in Australia
1789 Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh
1910 First night air flight by Claude Grahame-White in England
1937 1st commercial flight across Pacific operated by Pan Am
1977 Andreas Baader & members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany

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Events in History for Sunday April 24th 2016

Events in History for Saturday April 23rd 2016

1479 BC Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
1184 BC The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date).
1877 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1898 Spanish-American War: Spain delares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
1916 Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation begins in Dublin
1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had “gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily.”
1981 IBM-PC computer introduced