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1894: Alfred Dreyfus sentenced to life in prison.On this day in 1894, on the basis of specious evidence and anti-Semitism, French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was sentenced to life in prison for treason, sparking a controversy that divided France for 12 years.More events on this day1990:The Constitution of the Republic of Croatia was promulgated, granting such classic civil rights as freedom of speech, religion, information, and association, as well as guaranteeing the equality of nationalities. |
1989:Nicolae Ceau?escu was ousted after 24 years of dictatorial rule in Romania. |
1989:The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin was reopened, signifying the reunion of East and West Germany. |
1941:U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met in Washington, D.C., to discuss World War II. |
1856:Frank B. Kellogg, U.S. secretary of state from 1925 to 1929 who negotiated the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928—a multilateral agreement designed to prohibit war as an instrument of national policy—and won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1929, was born. |
1481:The member states of the Swiss Confederation concluded the Diet of Stans, an agreement whereby civil war was averted. |
1216:The Dominican order was sanctioned by Pope Honorius III. |
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