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1980: Solidarity formed.Solidarity, the Polish trade union and political party that became a hotbed of resistance to Soviet control, was founded this day in 1980 when delegates of 36 unions met and united under the leadership of Lech Wa??sa.More events on this day2002:Hundreds of thousands of rural protesters converged on London to demonstrate in favour of foxhunting, which two years later the House of Commons banned in England and Wales. |
1989:American composer Irving Berlin died in New York City. |
1980:The Iran-Iraq War began when Iraqi armed forces invaded western Iran along the countries' joint border. |
1940:Jean Decoux, the French governor-general of Indochina appointed by the Vichy government after the fall of France, concluded an agreement with the Japanese that permitted the stationing of 30,000 Japanese troops in Indochina. |
1927:Gene Tunney successfully defended his world heavyweight boxing title by defeating Jack Dempsey after the controversial “long count” in the seventh round. |
1922:Chinese-born American theoretical physicist Chen Ning Yang, corecipient with Tsung-Dao Lee of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957, was born. |
1776:American officer Nathan Hale was hanged by the British for spying during the American Revolution. |
1609:Spain's Philip III issued a royal order for deportation of the Moriscos (Christians of Moorish ancestry). |
530:Pope Felix IV died, having named Boniface II as his successor. |
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