1598: Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots Countdown to the revolution starts
1829: The British Parliament passed the Catholic Emancipation Act, granting freedom of religion
1849: Hungarian Republic proclaimed
1865: Sherman's march through Georgia begins Southerners start promising that the South will rise again
1912: The British Royal Flying Corps (RAF) was created by Royal Charter
1943: FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial
1960: France becomes the 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara And atom here, an atom there
1970: The American spacecraft Apollo 13, enroute to the Moon, has an onboard explosion