On Yesterday

[Henry Musikar]

 In 1565, Spaniard Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles founded the first 
Catholic settlement in America at St. Augustine, Florida.  

 In 1664, the settlement of New Amsterdam was seized from Dutch
 governor Peter Stuyvesant by the English under Colonel Richard
 Nicholls without a shot being fired. It was later renamed New York
 after James, Duke of York, the future King James II.  

 In 1900, a hurricane with winds of 120 m.p.h. and a following tidal
 wave at Galveston, Texas, killed at least 8,000 people and destroyed
 over 2,500 buildings in the city.  

 In 1926, the League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit
 Germany as a member.  

 In 1941, the blockade of Leningrad began as the German army 
encircled the city, cutting it off from the rest of the country. The 
siege lasted until January 1944 with almost one million civilians 
being killed.  

 In 1943, General Eisenhower announced the unconditional surrender of
 Italy in World War II.  

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 In 1944, fired from The Hague, the first German flying V-2 bombs
 landed at Chiswick in London. Three people were killed.  
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 In 1945, Hideki Tojo, Japanese prime minister during most of World
 War II, attempted suicide rather than face a war crimes tribunal. The
 attempt failed but he was later found guilty and hanged.  

 In 1974, President Ford granted Richard Nixon an unconditional 
pardon for all federal crimes he may have committed while he was in 
office. 

AsB4,
Henry Musikar
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