This Day in History
Anti-Taliban fighters observing U.S. bombing of the cave sanctuaries of the al-Qaeda terrorist …
On this day in 2001, on the heels of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan prompted by the deadly terrorist attacks of 9/11, the army of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance captured the capital city of Kabul.
More events on this day
1985: Mount Ruiz in the Cordillera Central of the Andes, in west-central Colombia, erupted twice, burying the town of Armero on the Lagunilla River and killing an estimated 25,000 people.
1918: Egyptian patriot Sa'd Zaghlul formed Al-Wafd al-Misri (Arabic: “Egyptian Delegation”), the nationalist political party that was instrumental in gaining Egyptian independence from Britain.
1916: During World War I, the costly four-month Allied offensive against German positions along the Somme River ended.
1850: Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books who was best known for his novels Treasure Island (1881), Kidnapped (1886), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and The Master of Ballantrae (1889), was born.
1770: George Grenville, the English politician whose policy of taxing the American colonies started the train of events leading to the American Revolution, died in London.
1002: English King Ethelred II launched an attack against Danish settlers in the St. Brice's Day massacre. |
