This Day in History
On this day in 1970, renowned Japanese novelist Mishima Yukio and four members of his Shield Society, a private army formed to preserve Japan's martial spirit, seized control of a military headquarters near downtown Tokyo.
More events on this day
2002: In London the Agatha Christie play The Mousetrap celebrated its 50th anniversary with a royal gala, having opened on November 25, 1952, and this performance being its 20,807th.
1975: Suriname gained its independence from The Netherlands.
1942: Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer chose Los Alamos, New Mexico, as the site of Project Y, which developed the first atomic bomb.
1936: Germany and Japan formed the Anti-Comintern Pact against the Soviet Union.
1863: General Ulysses S. Grant defeated General Braxton Bragg's Confederate forces at Lookout Mountain during the American Civil War.
1846: American temperance advocate Carry Nation, famous for using a hatchet to demolish barrooms, was born.
1277: Nicholas III was elected pope of the Roman Catholic church.
1120: William the Aetheling, duke of Normandy, was killed in a shipwreck on his way to England. |
