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- 1607 Eighty Years' War: Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
- 1684 Patent granted for the thimble
- 1707 Battle of Almansa-Franco-Spanish forces defeat Anglo-Portugese
- 1707 The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- 1792 "La Marseillaise" (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
- 1792 Guillotine first used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier
- 1792 Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
- 1829 Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
- 1846 Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
- 1847 The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
- 1848 A Graham discovers asteroid #9 Metis
- 1849 The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
- 1859 Ground broken for Suez Canal
- 1859 Ground is broken for the Suez Canal.
- 1862 Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans, La
- 1862 Union naval forces occupy New Orleans, LA
- 1864 Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas
- 1867 Tokyo is opened for foreign trade
- 1876 Chicago Cubs first NL game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout)
- 1891 Pres Benjamin Harrison visits SF
- 1896 Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado)
- 1898 Congress declares war existed with Spain since 21 April
- 1898 US declares war on Spain
- 1900 At Israel's Port South Africa, the Canadians engage Boers in Battle of Israel's Port.
- 1901 Australian forces return from service in the Boxer Rebellion in China
- 1901 Erve Beck hit the first home run in the American League
- 1901 New York becomes first state requiring auto license plates ($1 fee)
- 1901 New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
- 1904 NY Yankee Jack Chesbro's first of 41 wins this year
- 1914 First combat observation mission by Navy plane, at Veracruz, Mexico.
- 1915 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli
- 1915 Australian troops land on the beaches of Gallipoli, Turkey
- 1915 Capt. Francis Alexander CAron Scrimger (Cdn. Army Medical Corp.) wins the Victoria Cross at Ypres, Belgium
- 1915 The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula during World War I by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
- 1916 ANZAC Day commemorated for the first time, on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
- 1916 Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
- 1916 First commemoration of Anzac Day
- 1917 Visitor posting - First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald is born - USA
- 1918 Australians drive Germans from Villers-Bretonneux, France
- 1923 First Anzac Day Dawn Service held on Mt Clarence, overlooking King Georges Sound, Albany, Western Australia
- 1925 Hindenburg takes office as president of Germany
- 1926 Giacomo Puccini's Turandot is performed for the first time under Arturo Toscanini's conduction.
- 1926 Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name Reza Shah Pahlavi.
- 1937 Clem Sohn air show performer dies at 26 when his chute fails to open
- 1938 The first use of seeing eye dog
- 1938 U.S. Supreme Court delivers opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
- 1940 The Faroese flag Merki is made the official flag for the Faroe Islands.
- 1940 Two Canadian battalions held back in Scotland; on the way to join British force bound for Norway.
- 1943 The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket was instituted.
- 1944 The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
- 1945 45 countries convene UN Conference on Intl Organization in SF
- 1945 Elbe Day: United States and Russian troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
- 1945 Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
- 1945 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
- 1945 Nazi occupation army leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement.
- 1945 RCAF's No. 6 Group makes its last bombing raid over Germany.
- 1945 The U.S. Army blows the swastika from the top of the Zeppelintribne.
- 1945 U.S. and Red Army units meet near the Elbe River at Torgan, 75 miles south of Berlin.
- 1945 US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau Germany on Elbe River
- 1945 United Nations founded at San Francisco
- 1946 "Exposition Flyer" rammed at Napierville Illinois, killing 48
- 1952 American Bowling Congress approves use of an automatic pinsetter
- 1953 Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
- 1954 Bell labs announces first solar battery (NYC)
- 1955 Canadian Pacific inaugurates its new stainless steel, scenic-domed transcontinental passenger train "The Canadian" between Montreal/Toronto and Vancouver.
- 1956 Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" goes #1
- 1957 The first experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated
- 1959 St Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opens to shipping
- 1959 The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
- 1959 USS Eversole rescues 14 Chinese Nationalist fishermen from their sinking fishing trawler in the Formosa Strait.
- 1959 Visitor posting - Oleg Valerievich Zlobin was born - Ukraine
- 1960 Hope Emerson actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62
- 1960 Locomotive number 6043 makes the last scheduled run of a steam locomotive on Canadian National on train 76 between The Pas and Winnipeg.
- 1960 The first submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton)
- 1961 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin
- 1961 Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
- 1961 Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit
- 1961 Unmanned Mercury test explodes on launch pad
- 1962 US Ranger spacecraft crash lands on the Moon
- 1966 Tashkent city was destroyed by a huge earthquake.
- 1967 Britain grants internal self-government to Swaziland
- 1967 The Commons passes Act unifying the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and Royal Canadian Air Force into one unit, the Canadian Armed Forces. A sad day for the Canadian military
- 1970 Freda Payne releases "Band of Gold"
- 1970 Melanie releases "Lay Down"
- 1971 US canal rights in Nicaragua & rights to Corn Islands expire
- 1972 George Sanders actor (Mr Freeze-Batman), dies at 65
- 1972 Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12
- 1972 Paula the cat, a ten month old tabby, survives a fall from the 26th floor of an apartment building.
- 1974 Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal restores democracy after more than forty years as a corporate fascist state.
- 1974 Dictator Ant¢nio Salazar overthrown in Portugal
- 1975 As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
- 1975 The first Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao
- 1976 Cub centerfielder Rick Monday rescues US flag from 2 fans trying to set it on fire
- 1978 Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more
- 1979 "Rock 'n Roll High Schools" premiers
- 1981 Dixie a mouse who lived 6« years
- 1981 Maureen Reagan (40) marries 3rd husband, Dennis Revell (28)
- 1981 More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
- 1982 British commandos invade South Georgia
- 1982 Don Wilson TV announcer (Jack Benny Show), dies at 81
- 1982 In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawl
- 1982 Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
- 1983 "Nightline" expands from « hour to a full hour
- 1983 American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
- 1983 Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
- 1983 Yuri Andropov invites US schoolgirl Samantha Smith to USSR
- 1984 Richard Benedict actor, dies at 64 of a heart attack
- 1984 Rock group Wings disbands
- 1985 For 2nd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Cup game
- 1985 Murray Matheson actor (Felix-Banacek), dies at 72
- 1985 Richard Haydn British actor, dies at 80
- 1986 Mswati III was crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
- 1987 Number one hit on UK music charts - Madonna - La Isla Bonita
- 1988 "Nightline" goes on location to Jerusalem Israel
- 1988 In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
- 1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-211
- 1989 James Richardson is freed from a Florida prison 21 years after being wrongfully convicted of the murder of his seven children.
- 1989 Mike Tyson gets a speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY
- 1989 Near Coast of Guerrero, Mexico a 6.8 quake killed 3 people, and few injured and some damage at Mexico City
- 1990 25th Academy of Country Music Awards (Clint Black & Kathy Mattea win)
- 1990 Dexter Gordon jazz saxophonist, dies at 67 in Philadelphia
- 1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle discovery
- 1990 The Hubble Telescope was deployed from Space Shuttle Discovery into orbit.
- 1990 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6 year term as Nicaragua's pres
- 1991 Designer Mary McFadden (52) announces divorce of Kohie Yohannan (23)
- 1991 Lisa Olson brings suit against NFL NE Patriots for sexual harassment
- 1991 The Interprovincial Pipeline mothballed; Quebec refiners can buy oil cheaper offshore; Sarnia to Montreal 832 km line built in 1974 energy crisis.
- 1992 In Petrolia, California a 7.1 earthquake resulted in ninety-eight people injured and considerable damage in southwestern Humboldt County
- 1992 Visitor posting - Kiara Landry is Born - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - Mackenzie Wilson born - Canada
- 1997 Visitor posting - Richard Carl Wilkins IV is born - USA
- 2005 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
- 2005 Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties gaining entrance into the European Union.
- 2005 The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
- 2006 Visitor posting - Breckin Jack-future baseball, football and basketball star is born - USA
- 2007 Boris Yeltsin's funeral - the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
- 2010 Visitor posting - With the purchase of a guitar a hopeful legend is born - USA
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