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1805:
Napoleon Bonaparte celebrates the first anniversary of his coronation with a victory at Austerlitz over a Russian and Austrian army.
1863: General Braxton Bragg turns over command of the Army of Tennessee to General William Hardee at Dalton, Ga. 1864: Major General Grenville M. Dodge is named to replace General William Rosecrans as Commander of the Department of Missouri. 1864: Confederate General Archibald Gracie, Jr., is killed in the trenches at Petersburg, Virginia, when an artillery shell explodes near him. 1914: Austrian troops occupy Belgrade, Serbia. 1932: Bolivia accepts Paraguays terms for a truce in the Chaco War. 1942: Enrico Fermi, the Italian-born Nobel Prize-winning physicist, directs and controls the first nuclear chain reaction in his laboratory beneath the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, ushering in the nuclear age. 1942: The Allies repel a strong Axis attack in Tunisia, North Africa. 1944: General George S. Pattons troops enter the Saar Valley and break through the Siegfried line. 1946: The United States and Great Britain merge their German occupation zones. |