Today in history

1513-Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland

1739-Slave revolt in Stono SC led by Jemmy (25 whites killed)

1776-Continental Congress renames “United Colonies,” “United States”

1867-Luxembourg gains independence

1904-Boston Herald again refers to NY baseball club as Yankees, when it reports “Yankees take 2,” Yankee name not official till 1913

1943-Italy surrenders to the Allies

1944 Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (often referred to as the invasion of Bulgaria by Russia) (National Day)

1945-Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies

1948-People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed

1956-Elvis Presley appears on national TV for first time (Ed Sullivan)

1965-Tibet is made an autonomous region of China

1966-John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition

1971-John Lennon releases the “Imagine” album

1987-Gary Hart admits to cheating on his wife on “Nightline”

1990-Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait