AND MORE 1802 – France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont. 1803 – Battle of Delhi, during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, between British troops under General Lake, and Marathas of Scindias army under General Louis Bourquin. 1813 – War of 1812: British troops arrive in Mount Vernon and prepare to march to and invade Washington, D.C.. 1814 – War of 1812: The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a major United States victory in the war. 1826 – Capt. William Morgan arrested in Batavia, New York for debt. This sets into motion the events that lead to his mysterious disappearance. 1829 – Surrender of the expedition led by Isidro Barradas at Tampico, sent by the Spanish crown in order to retake Mexico. This was the final consummation of Mexican independence. 1914 – Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka. 1916 – The Quebec Bridges central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed in toto on August 29, 1907. 1919 – U.S. Marines invade Honduras. 1921 – Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan to colonize Palestine and creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel. 1922 – The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia. 1922 – One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australias predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded. 1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, the countrys first independent declaration of war 1941 – Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon. 1941 – Charles Lindberghs Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany. 1943 – World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija. 1943 – World War II: Start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis. 1944 – World War II: The first Allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Germany. 1944 – World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500. 1945 – World War II: Australian 9th Division forces liberate the Japanese-run Batu Lintang camp, a POW and civilian internment camp on the island of Borneo. 1954 – Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 3 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths. 1971 – The Egyptian Constitution becomes official. 1972 – The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system has its opening day of passenger service. 1973 – A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990. 1985 – Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobbs baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit 1988 – The St Jean Bosco massacre takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 1989 – Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany. 1992 – Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu. 1997 – NASAs Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars. 1997 – After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom. 2001 – Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Altogether, 2,996 people are killed.
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