1796 Napoléon Bonaparte is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French Army in Italy.
1882 Queen Victoria narrowly escapes assassination when Roderick Maclean shoots at her while boarding a train in Windsor.
1915 British vice admiral Sackville Hamilton Carden begins bombardment of Dardanelles forts.
1965 One of the most popular musical films of all time, "The Sound of Music", starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1966)
1965 US Air Force begins Operation Rolling Thunder, a three year sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
1966 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam.
1968 USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world, with a cargo compartment 37m long.
1969 First test flight of the supersonic Concorde.
1991 UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq.
1991 US Army controversially destroys a retreating Iraqi Republican Guard column at Rumaila Oil Field, despite a ceasefire being observed.
|