February 16, 2025

This Day in History

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Shimla, Sept. 17 Keekli Bureau

This Day in History

2011

The first Occupy Wall Street protest was held in the United States, as some 1,000 demonstrators marched in Manhattan before occupying Zuccotti Park; the movement, which eventually went global, sought to highlight corporate greed and income inequality, among other issues.

1991

North Korea and South Korea were admitted to the United Nations.

1972

The American TV series M*A*S*H, based on the Robert Altman film (1970), debuted on CBS, and the show was hugely popular with both critics and viewers.

1948

Folke, Greve (count) Bernadotte, was assassinated by Jewish extremists while serving the United Nations as mediator between the Arabs and the Israelis.

1939

During World War II the Soviet army invaded Poland from the east—joining Germany, which had launched its attack several weeks earlier—and the Polish government fled to Romania.

1926

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was severely injured in a bus accident, and during her recovery she began painting and soon abandoned her plans for a career in medicine.

1901

British adventurer Sir Francis Chichester, who sailed around the world alone in 1966–67 in the 55-foot (17-metre) yacht Gipsy Moth IV, was born.

1862

Union forces halted the Confederate advance on Maryland during the Battle of Antietam; the battle resulted in more than 26,000 casualties—one of the bloodiest days of the American Civil War.

1861

The forces of Buenos Aires province, commanded by Governor Bartolomé Mitre, defeated those of the Argentine Confederation, led by Justo José de Urquiza, at the Battle of Pavón.

1787

The U.S. Constitution was signed by 39 delegates of the Constitutional Convention.

1631

The Swedish-Saxon army under King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden destroyed the army of the Roman Catholic Habsburg emperor Ferdinand II and the Catholic League, under Johann Tserclaes, Graf (count) von Tilly, in the Battle of Breitenfeld.

1549

Pope Paul III suspended the Council of Trent after Charles V forbade the Spanish and German prelates to go to Bologna.

1374

The Polish nobility and their king, Louis I, signed the Pact of Koszyce.

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