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- 1156 Siege of Shirakawa-den in Japan.
- 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) - a coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's huge knightly army.
- 1346 Charles IV of Luxembourg elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1405 Chinese fleet commander Zheng He set sail to explore the world for the first time.
- 1476 Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
- 1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
- 1593 Giuseppe Arcimboldo first surrealist painter, dies
- 1616 Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
- 1735 Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979.
- 1740 Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
- 1750 Halifax, Nova Scotia almost completely destroyed by fire.
- 1776 Captain James Cook begins third voyage.
- 1781 Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of the US
- 1789 Jacques Necker dismissed as Finance Minister for France sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
- 1792 Prussia army moves into French territory
- 1796 The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
- 1798 Reestablishment of Marine Corps under the Constitution
- 1798 The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
- 1798 US Marine Corps created by an act of Congress
- 1804 Alex Hamilton killed by VP Aaron Burr in pistol duel near Weehawken
- 1804 Former U S Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton is mortally wounded at age 49 in a duel at Weehawken, N J with Vice President Aaron Burr, now 48, who has heard of insults directed at him by Hamilton and demanded satisfaction
- 1804 VP Aaron Burr kills Alex Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken
- 1804 Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
- 1811 Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about molecular content of gases.
- 1812 US invades Canada (Detroit frontier)
- 1848 The Waterloo railway station in London opens.
- 1859 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published.
- 1859 Visitor posting - Big Ben rings out over London for the first time - United Kingdom
- 1864 Confederate forces attempt an invasion of Washington, D.C.
- 1864 Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Wash DC
- 1873 American whisky traders massacre group of Assiniboines; Cypress Hills Massacre forces the Government to send police to the Canadian West.
- 1882 The British Mediterranean fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
- 1888 118ø F (48ø C), Bennett, Colorado (state record)
- 1888 Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall
- 1889 Tijuana, Mexico was founded
- 1890 Japan holds her first political elections
- 1893 The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
- 1895 The brothers Lumire show film for scientists.
- 1897 Salomon August Andre leaves Spitsbergen to try to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
- 1905 Black intellectuals & activists organize Niagara movement
- 1906 Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy
- 1909 Simon Newcomb celestial mechanics authority, dies
- 1911 A huge forest fire breaks out in Porcupine district near Timmins, fanned by high winds into a 40 km long front, the fire takes 200 lives; over 3,000 left homeless; burns up 2200 sq. km, destroying the mining communities of South Porcupine, Cochrane and Goldlands.
- 1914 Babe Ruth debuts in Major league baseball.
- 1916 The first federal grant-in-aid for state roads enacted
- 1919 Eight-hour working day and free Sunday made into law in the Netherlands.
- 1919 Pay Corps renamed Supply Corps
- 1921 Former US President William Howard Taft sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.
- 1921 Mongolia becomes independent (from China).
- 1921 Truce called in the Irish War of Independence; see Irish calendar.
- 1922 Hollywood Bowl opens.
- 1934 FDR became first pres to travel through Panama Canal
- 1936 Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
- 1936 Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx & Queens opens
- 1937 George Gershwin composer (American in Paris), dies at 38
- 1940 Petty Officer D. A. Hewitt first Canadian killed in the Battle of Britain.
- 1942 First medical experiments are performed at Auschwitz.
- 1943 Gunfire from U.S. cruisers and destroyers stop German and Italian tank attack against Army beachhead at Gela, Sicily.
- 1943 Massacres of Poles in Volhynia
- 1943 World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily - German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
- 1946 Visitor posting - Donald Bruce Brady was born
- 1950 Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank.
- 1952 Gen Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate
- 1954 The first White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Miss
- 1955 Congress authorizes all US currency to say "In God We Trust"
- 1955 New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colo with 300 cadets
- 1955 The phrase In God We Trust is added to all US currency.
- 1957 Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III
- 1960 Independence of Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger.
- 1960 Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence
- 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
- 1962 Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days
- 1962 First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
- 1962 Fred Baldasare is first to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)
- 1965 Ray Collins actor (Halls of Ivy, Perry Mason), dies at 75
- 1967 Kenny Rogers forms first Edition
- 1967 The first major "unit train" movement in Canada is inaugurated by Canadian Pacific - 3,700 tons of sulphuric acid from the Copper Cliff plant of CIL nr. Sudbury to Sarnia, Ontario.
- 1969 David Bowie releases "Space Oddity"
- 1971 Carleton Young actor (Court of Last Resorts), dies at 64
- 1971 Copper mines in Chile nationalized.
- 1973 A Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 people of the 134 on-board.
- 1973 Isabel Randolph actress (Mrs Nester-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 83
- 1974 House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
- 1974 World Football League plays first games
- 1975 Chinese archeologists discover a large burial site with 6,000 clay statutes of warriors from 221 BC.
- 1976 In the Panama-Colombia Border Region, The foreshock, a magnitude 6.7, was followed by a major earthquake of magnitude 7.0 four hours later. Several injured and10 houses and 1 bridge were destroyed in the area
- 1977 Martin Luther King is posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom.
- 1977 Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr
- 1978 Los Alfaques Disaster: a truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
- 1979 The space station Skylab returns to Earth.
- 1979 US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates
- 1980 American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran
- 1980 Peggy Knudson acttress (April-So This is Hollywood), dies at 57
- 1981 Number one hit on UK music charts - Specials - Ghost Town
- 1982 Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid
- 1982 Italy wins its third FIFA World Cup.
- 1983 A Boeing 727 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
- 1984 Canadian dollar sinks to US74.86¢, an all-time low to that date, and where are we now how about 67 cents!!!!!
- 1984 England's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe
- 1985 Refurbished Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden
- 1986 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000 m in world record 30:13.74
- 1986 Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara
- 1987 According to the United Nations, the world population crossed the 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) mark.
- 1987 Heart's "Alone," single goes #1 for 3 weeks
- 1987 Thomas F Waddell found of Gay olympics, dies of AIDS at 50
- 1988 Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor
- 1989 Sir Laurence Olivier acting great, dies at 82
- 1990 NYC police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
- 1990 Oka Crisis, First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
- 1991 A Nationair DC-8 crashed during an emergency landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 261. The Canadian charter was ferrying Hajj pilgrims on behalf of Nigeria Airways.
- 1992 Visitor posting - Peri Savery married Pete Kennington. I have Rottsunds! - USA
- 1995 A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.
- 1995 Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam.
- 1995 On the Myanmar-China Border Region a 7.2 quake resulted in 6 people killed, 99 injured, more than 100,000 houses destroyed and 42,000 damaged
- 1995 Srebrenica Genocide: Serb army from Yugoslavia and Bosnia, capture the Bosniak town of Srebrenica. More than eight thousands inhabitants are murdered. It is generally regarded to be the most horrific event in recent European history.
- 1996 Visitor posting - Tayler Schuetz was born - USA
- 1999 In the Honduras a 7.0 quake resulted in 1 person killed and another person died from a heart attack; at least 40 people injured
- 2003 Lahore-Delhi bus service resumed after suspension of 18 months.
- 2004 CIA Director George Tenet leaves his position at the agency.
- 2006 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
- 2008 Visitor posting - Kole Burden Born. - USA
- 2008 Federal regulators seize IndyMac Bank after it succumbs to the pressures of tighter credit, tumbling home prices and rising foreclosures
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