Some personal "today in history" experiences, very good LeEnfield!
I would love to hear more about that (if you don't mind sharing??)
Here's some more for today:
1576
Spanish defeat Walloons & take Antwerp Belgium
1791
In what became known as St. Clair's Defeat, U.S. General Arthur St. Clair was beaten by the British-supported Northwest Indian Confederation.
1862
Gatling gun patented (Richard J Gatling)
1864
Battle of Johnsonville, Tennessee
http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/t...3&day=10272969 1956
Soviets crush Hungarian revolt
http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/t...3&day=10272969 1956
Israel captures Straits of Tiran from Egypt
1956
Israeli troops reach Suez Canal
1957
2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched
1979
The hostage crisis in Iran began as the U.S. embassy in Tehran was seized by Iranian militants in a move sanctioned by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/t...9&cat=10272946 1995
Yitzhak Rabin assassinated
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, corecipient with Shimon Peres and Yasir 'Arafat of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1994, was assassinated this day in 1995 by a Jewish extremist while attending a peace rally.
http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/t...3&day=10272969