Today in history

164 BC During Maccabbean revolt Judas Maccabaeus recaptures Jersusalem and rededicates the Second Temple, commemorated since as Jewish festival Hanukkah 1806 The Continental System declared in the Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with Britain 1818 Russia’s Tsar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine 1920 Mussolini’s squad begins terror, 11 die in Bologna, Italy 1953 Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce the “Piltdown Man” skull is a hoax