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- 0048 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
- 0988 The City of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
- 1031 France's Capetian king Robert the Pious dies July 10 at age 61 after a short war in which he has been defeated by his younger sons
- 1212 The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
- 1460 Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
- 1553 Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
- 1584 William I of Orange was assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Grard.
- 1690 Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeats Anglo-Dutch fleet
- 1692 Bridget Bishop first Salem witch hung
- 1775 Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
- 1778 American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1789 Alexander Mackenzie reaches Mackenzie River Delta.
- 1796 Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.
- 1800 The British Indian Government established Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent.
- 1806 The Vellore Mutiny was the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company
- 1832 Pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US
- 1847 Urbain J.J. Leverrier & John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune meet for first time at home of John Herschel
- 1850 Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States.
- 1850 VP Fillmore becomes pres following Zachary Taylor's death
- 1863 Clement Clarke Moore ('Twas the Night Before Xmas), dies at 83
- 1866 Indelible pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass
- 1875 L Schulhof discovers asteroid #147 Protogeneia
- 1877 The then villa of Mayagez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
- 1884 Paul Morphy US chess wizard, dies
- 1886 Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink & white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand)
- 1890 Wyoming becomes 44th state
- 1890 Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
- 1892 The first concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
- 1910 Johann Galle discoverer of Neptune with telescope, dies
- 1913 134ø F (57ø C), Greenland Ranch, Calif (US record)
- 1913 Death Valley, California hits 134 F (~56.7 C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
- 1917 Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing the draft
- 1918 Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic established
- 1919 Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate
- 1920 The “greatest horse“ Man O' War wins the “greatest race“ of turf history at Aqueduct.
- 1923 2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle. (Rostov, Russia)
- 1923 All non-fascist parties disolved in Italy
- 1925 Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial
- 1925 Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
- 1925 Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
- 1925 The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union , is established.
- 1925 USSR's official news agency TASS established
- 1926 Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage
- 1927 Kevin O'Higgins Irish Free State VP, assassinated
- 1929 US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
- 1933 The first police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY
- 1934 The first sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
- 1934 USS Houston takes Franklin Delano Roosevelt on first visit of U.S. President to South America.
- 1936 109ø F (43ø C), Cumberland & Frederick, Maryland (state record)
- 1936 111ø F (44ø C), Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record)
- 1936 New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles
- 1940 Australian fighter pilots begin their participation in the Battle of Britain
- 1940 World War II: Vichy France government established.
- 1941 Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton pioneer jazz pianist, dies at 56 in LA
- 1941 Jedwabne Pogrom was a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
- 1943 Naval gunfire help Allied troops land on Sicily. It was first extensive use of LST's and smaller landing craft to deliver heavy equipment over the beach.
- 1943 US & Britain invade Sicily in WW II
- 1943 World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign.
- 1945 14 carriers from Third Fleet carriers begin air strikes on Japanese Home Islands which end 15 August.
- 1945 Robert Goddard Rocket pioneer, dies
- 1946 Canada's first drive-in movie theatre opens in Hamilton, Ontario (those were the days)
- 1947 200 die when train derails & fell into a river in Canton, China
- 1947 Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee.
- 1949 Greg Kihn U.S. pop musician & radio personality.
- 1949 The first practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh
- 1950 "Your Hit Parade" premiers on NBC (later CBS) TV
- 1951 Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
- 1951 Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin.
- 1951 Randy Turpin becomes the middleweight boxing champion after defeating Sugar Ray Robinson.
- 1955 Visitor posting - Bonnie Caryn Levine was born in New York - USA
- 1958 Alaska, highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, at 524 m high.
- 1958 In the Lituya Bay, Alaska an 8.3 event caused amassive rockslide at the head of Lituya Bay caused water to surge about 530 meters, generating a "gravity wave" that swept out of the bay. A fishing boat anchored in Anchorage Cove was carried in front of the largest wave crest, and those onboard estimated they cleared La Chaussee Spit (at the mouth of Lituya Bay) by 30 meters or more. Two people on another fishing boat disappeared after being caught in the huge wave
- 1958 Visitor posting - Suresh's date of birth
- 1962 Telstar, first geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
- 1962 Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
- 1965 Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
- 1965 Rolling Stones score their first #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
- 1966 Orbiter 1 launched to Moon
- 1967 New Zealand adopts decimal currency.
- 1967 Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1968 Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1969 Chilean Association of Librarians created
- 1969 NL votes to split into 2 divisions
- 1972 Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
- 1973 Bahamas gain independence after 300 yrs of British rule (Nat'l Day)
- 1973 National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on Bangladesh recognition.
- 1973 The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1974 Visitor posting - James Akot was born with his twin brother - USA
- 1976 One US and three UK mercenaries executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
- 1976 The Seveso Disaster occurs in Italy.
- 1977 Norman Paris orch leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at 41
- 1978 E F Helinand E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3484
- 1978 Mauritania, President Moktar Ould Daddah is ousted in a bloodless coup.
- 1978 Military coup in Mauritania
- 1978 World News Tonight premieres on ABC
- 1980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen
- 1980 Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5ø C temp
- 1981 CERN achieves first proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)
- 1982 In Vancouver, BC, three $2 ticket bettors win $579,129 apiece at the races in Exhibition Park. (they call it the sport of kings?)
- 1982 Miguel Vasquez makes first public quadruple somersault on trapeze
- 1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
- 1985 French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand
- 1985 Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by French DGSE agents.
- 1989 Mel Blanc voice of cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny), dies at 81
- 1990 Andrew Dice Clays cries on Arsenio Hall Show
- 1991 Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia.
- 1991 Gerome Ragal author (Hair), dies at 48 of cancer
- 1991 South African cricket team readmitted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) following the end of Apartheid.
- 1992 In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
- 1995 Visitor posting - blonde haired blue eyed cutie born - USA
- 1997 London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
- 1997 Spain, Partido Popular member Miguel ngel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
- 1998 Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
- 2000 A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
- 2000 EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Arospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
- 2002 At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for 49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Kenneth Thomson.
- 2003 A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
- 2005 Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.
- 2006 Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
- 2010 A 9-year-old boy fatally shot his 2-year-old brother while playing with a gun in Los Angeles - USA
- 2010 Visitor posting - Livi Boe Elizabeth Cutts arrived - United Kingdom
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