Today:
1099 – Jerusalem fell to the Crusaders during the First Crusade.
1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants’ Revolt, was hanged, drawn, and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
1799 – The Rosetta Stone, an ancient Egyptian artifact, was discovered by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard.
1834 – The Spanish Inquisition was officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
1870 – Georgia became the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1910 – In his book “Clinical Psychiatry,” Emil Kraepelin gave a name to Alzheimer’s disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporated Pacific Aero Products, which later became the Boeing Company.
1975 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft docked, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
1996 – MSNBC, a cable news and information channel, was launched.
2006 – Twitter, an online social networking service, was launched to the public.
30 American Heritage Events: #15
Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)
A significant battle in the Great Sioux War.