Categories: history
Tags: My Lai, Punic, Carthiginian, Fulgencio, Che, Fidel
Date: 10 March 2009 19:03:18
History Today:
241BC: The Roman navy defeats the Carthiginian fleet at the Battle of Aegusa and end the First Punic War. The amazing thing is that the Roman's didn't have a navy at the start of the war and the Carthiginians had the mightest fleet that frescos had ever seen - to this point.
1629: Charles I begins the 11 "years of tyranny" - personal rule to us - by dissolving parliament. Think how long is was before they invented dissolvable tablets.
1801: The first official census is undertaken in Britain, revealing apopulation of approx. 10 million.
1831: King Louis Phillippe does all men a favour and establishes the French Foreign Legion.
1952: Fulgencio Batista satges a coup to sieze control of Cuba. He only lastest 7 1/2 years before being overthrown by Fidel & Che. Vive l'Revolution!
1969: James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr and is sentenced to 99 years imprisonment. He later pleads innocence.
1970: The U.S. army accuses Capt. Ernest Medina and 4 other soldiers of committing crimes at My Lai in Vietnam, in March 1968.