1926 Chiang Kai-shek was appointed the national revolutionary supreme commander in China 1934 Heinrich Himmler takes over the German Concentration Camps

1099 the first crusade 15,000 starving Christians marched around Muslim defenders of Jerusalem 1497 Vasco de Gama left for the first European to reach India by sea

1456 Joan of Arc retrial verdict acquits her 25 years after her death 1928 otto Fredrick Rohwedder sold the first machine to slice bread he was the inventor of the machine

1957 John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time as Lennons group the Quarrymen performed at a church dinner 1987 the USSR performed a nuclear test

1811 Venezuela declares independence from Spain 1954 BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin

1776 US independence day from Great Britain 1884 The Statue of Liberty was presented to the US in Paris France