On this day in history

43 BC: Octavian, Antony and Lepidus form the triumvirate of Rome.
1095: In Clermont, France, Pope Urban II makes an appeal for warriors to relieve Jerusalem. He is responding to false rumors of atrocities in the Holy Land.
1812: One of the two bridges being used by Napoleon Bonaparte‘s army across the Berezina River in Russia collapses during a Russian artillery barrage.
1868: Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer‘s 7th Cavalry kills Chief Black Kettle and about 100 Cheyenne (mostly women and children) on the Washita River.
1909: U.S. troops land in Blue fields, Nicaragua, to protect American interests there.
1919: Bulgaria signs a peace treaty with the Allies at Neuilly, France, fixing war reparations and recognizing Yugoslavian independence.
1936: Great Britain’s Anthony Eden warns Adolf Hitler that Britain will fight to protect Belgium.
1954: Alger Hiss, convicted of being a Soviet spy, is freed after 44 months in prison.
1959: Demonstrators march in Tokyo to protest a defense treaty with the United States.
1967: Charles DeGaulle vetoes Great Britain’s entry into the Common Market again.
1970: Syria joins the pact linking Libya, Egypt and Sudan.
1973: The U.S. Senate votes to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States; the House will confirm Ford on Dec. 6.
1978: San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, are assassinated by former city supervisor Dan White.
2001: The Hubble Space Telescope discovers a hydrogen atmosphere on planet Osiris, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
2004: Pope John Paul II returns relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
2005: The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
2006: The Canadian House of Commons approves a motion, tabled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, recognizing the Quebecois as a nation within Canada.