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Events Byzantine Empire Spring – Emperor Justinian I appoints his cousin Germanus as magister militum to deal with the crisis in Africa. He sends a mobile force of comitatenses (mostly cavalry) and an elite guard. Solomon, the previous magister militum, returns to Constantinople. Summer – Gothic War (535–554): Belisarius crosses the Strait of Messina and invades Italy. He conquers the city of Rhegium and advances to Naples. November – Siege of Naples:Continue Reading

Events January–June January 5 – Duke Ludovico Sforza recaptures Milan, but is soon driven out again by the French. January 26 – Spanish navigator Vicente Yáñez Pinzón reaches the northern coast of Brazil. February 17 – Battle of Hemmingstedt: The Danish army fails to conquer the peasants’ republic of Dithmarschen. April 22 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral officially discovers Brazil, and claims the land for the KingdomContinue Reading

The 1928 Hits Archive January Main article: January 1928 January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith’s experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, Joseph Stalin‘s personal secretary, crosses the border to Iran to defect from the Soviet Union. January 17 – The OGPU arrests Leon Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passiveContinue Reading

The 1927 Hits Archive January Main article: January 1927 January 1 – The British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation, when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General. January 7 The first transatlantic telephone call is made via radio from New York City, United States, to London, United Kingdom. The Harlem Globetrotters exhibition basketball team play theirContinue Reading

THE 1926 HITS ARCHIVE Events January Main article: January 1926 January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece.[1] January 8 Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.[2] Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of Vietnam. January 12 – Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiere their radio program Sam ‘n’ Henry, in which the two white performersContinue Reading

Events  January: Main article: January 1915  Playback FM: Top 40 pop Songs in 1915 January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on “The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction”. January 1 WWI: British Royal Navy battleship HMS Formidable is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss of 547 crew.Continue Reading

Events January–December January 29 – King Jogaila of the Poland–Lithuania Union answers the rumblings against his rule of Poland, by marrying Anna of Celje, a granddaughter of Casimir III of Poland. March 26 – David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland, dies while being held captive by his uncle, Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany. May 21 –Continue Reading