On This Day

1412 Concord of Alcañiz between Catalonia and Aragon to designate a king for the Crown of Aragon.

1564 Galileo Galilei (d. 1642) is born in Pisa.

1854 Dostoyevsky is enlisted as a private soldier after serving time in Siberia.

1856 Compulsory postage for correspondence is decreed in Spain.

1898 The US cruiser Maine explodes in the port of Havana triggering the Spanish–American War.

1933 Failed assassination attempt on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Miami.

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