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Accadde Oggi – accaddeoggi. it | I fatti del giorno nel passato Le truppe normanne del re di Sicilia Guglielmo d'Altavilla affrontano l'esercito bizantino guidato dal generale Giovanni Doukas nella battaglia di Brindisi Dopo oltre quaranta giorni di blocco della città, arrestano il tentativo bizantino di riconquista dell'Italia, azzerandone quanto già conquistato in un anno di campagna militare
This Day in History - Infoplease Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate Pope John Paul II was born near Krakow, Poland Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound India became the 6th country to become a nuclear power Mount St Helens, in Washington state, erupted after being dormant for 123 years