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Today in History
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02 April 2015
1513
Colonial Period
Near present-day St. Augustine, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon comes ashore on the Florida coast, and claims the territory for the Spanish crown.
1805
Literary
Hans Christian Andersen, one of the world's greatest storytellers, is born in Odensk, near Copenhagen. Andersen wrote several plays that flopped, but he achieved some success with his novel The Improviser (1835). Meanwhile, he entertained himself by writing a series of children's stories that he published as collections. The first, Tales Told for Children, (1835) included "The Princess and the Pea." Andersen released new collections every year or two for decades as he traveled widely in Europe, Africa, and Asia Minor. His stories include "The Ugly Duckling," "The Little Mermaid," and "The Emperor's New Clothes." He died in 1875 at age 70.
1865
Civil War
After a ten-month siege, Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, and Confederate General Robert E. Lee leads his troops on a desperate retreat westward. By nightfall, President Davis and the Confederate government were in flight and Richmond was on fire.
1917
Firsts
Jeannette Pickering Rankin, the first woman ever elected to Congress, takes her seat in the U.S. Capitol as a representative from Montana.
1917
World War I
The world must be made safe for democracy, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson proclaims as he appears before Congress to ask for a declaration of war against Germany.
1979
Disaster
The world's first anthrax epidemic begins in Ekaterinburg, Russia (now Sverdlosk). By the time it ended six weeks later, 62 people were dead. Another 32 survived serious illness. Ekaterinburg, as the town was known in Soviet times, also suffered livestock losses from the epidemic. It was not until 13 years later, in 1992, that the epidemic was finally explained: workers at the Ekaterinburg weapons plant failed to replace a crucial filter, causing a release of anthrax spores into the outside air. The wind carried the spores to a farming area and infected people and livestock in the area. Had the town been downwind from the plant at the time of the release, the death toll might have been considerably higher.
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