Today in HistoryThis day in history:
- 1914 – World War I: U-boat campaign: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
- 1824 – Peruvian War of Independence: Patriot forces led by Simón Bolívar defeat the Spanish Royalist army in the Battle of Junín.
- 1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
- 1661 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
Births:
- 1958 – Randy DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1972 – Jason O'Mara, Irish actor
- 1924 – Samuel Bowers, American white supremacist, co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (died 2006)
Deaths:
- 2014 – Ralph Bryans, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (born 1941)
- 1866 – John Mason Neale, English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (born 1818)
- 1694 – Antoine Arnauld, French mathematician and philosopher (born 1612)
Holidays:
- Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day. (United Arab Emirates)
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony (Hiroshima, Japan)
- Independence Day (Bolivia), celebrates the independence of Bolivia from Spain in 1825.
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