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1666: Great Fire of London .On this day in 1666 the Great Fire of London began accidentally in the house of the king's baker; it burned for four days and destroyed a large part of the city, including Old St. Paul's Cathedral and about 13,000 houses.More events on this day1945:World War II came to an end as Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru and General Umezu Yoshijiro signed Japan's formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri. |
1945:Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam independent from France. |
1928:American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader Horace Silver was born. |
1898:Anglo-Egyptian forces under Major General Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener (later Lord Kitchener) defeated the Sudanese forces of the Mahdist leader ?Abd All¨¡h in the Battle of Omdurman. |
1792:The September Massacres—mass killings of prisoners in Paris—began. The massacres were instigated by beliefs that political prisoners during the French Revolution were going to rise up in their jails to join a counterrevolutionary plot. |
31:Octavian (later Augustus Caesar) won a decisive victory over Mark Antony in the Battle of Actium. |
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