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1991: U.S. victory declared in First Persian Gulf War.On this day in 1991, U.S. President George Bush ordered a cease-fire effective at midnight and declared victory in the First Persian Gulf War, a conflict triggered by Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait in August 1990.More events on this day1973:Two hundred members of the American Indian Movement forcefully took the reservation hamlet of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. |
1967:Saint Kitts and Nevis (with Anguilla) became an independent state associated with the United Kingdom. |
1933:In Berlin the Reichstag (parliament) building caught fire, a key event in the establishment of Nazi dictatorship. |
1884:Paul Kruger, president of the South African Republic, signed a treaty in London that disavowed British authority over the Transvaal. |
1807:American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Massachusetts (now in Maine). |
1776:At the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolinian revolutionaries defeated loyalists during the American Revolution. |
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