>> International Day For Monuments and Sites
• 1506 – Construction of the current St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, to replace the old basilica built in the 4th century, began.
• 1689 – Provincial militia and citizens gathered in Boston,
and arrested officials of the Dominion of New England.
• 1847 – Mexican–American War: Winfield Scott's United States
troops out-flanked and drove Santa Anna's larger Mexican army from a strong
defensive position in the Battle of Cerro Gordo.
• 1938 – Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster,
made his debut in Action Comics #1, the first true superhero comic book.
• 1955 – Death Day Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer,
and academic (Birth 1879)
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