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- 0410 Poland & Lithuania defeat Teutonic Knights at Tannenberg
- 1085 The Norman Robert Guiscard dies of fever at age 60 after regaining Corfu and Kephalonia, which his son Bohemund had lost
- 1099 First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
- 1099 Jerusalem falls to the Crusaders after a siege of just over one month The streets of the city run with blood as the Crusaders slaughter 40,000 and set fire to mosques and synagogues, and the First Crusade comes to an end
- 1162 Ladislaus II of Hungary declared King of Hungary.
- 1207 John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton.
- 1240 A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
- 1381 John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England.
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald, allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
- 1662 Charles II grants charter to establish Royal Society in London
- 1685 James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemore on 6 July 1685.
- 1789 Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, by acclamation, named colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
- 1799 Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta, by French Captain Pierre-Franois Bouchard.
- 1806 Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.
- 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte captured
- 1815 Napolon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard HMS Bellerophon.
- 1823 A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.
- 1856 Natal established as a British colony separate from Cape Colony
- 1864 Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 and injuring 109 of 955 aboard
- 1867 SF Merchant's Exchange opens
- 1869 Margarine is patented in Paris, for use by French Navy
- 1870 Georgia becomes last confederate state to be readmitted to US
- 1870 Hudson's Bay & Northwest Territories transferred to Canada
- 1870 Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province & NW Territories created
- 1870 Post-American-Civil-War Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
- 1870 Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.
- 1881 William "Billy the Kid" Bonney killed by Pat Garrett
- 1888 Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for first time in 1,000 years
- 1893 Commodore Perry arrives in Japan
- 1895 Archie MacLaren scores County Championship record cricket innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton.
- 1904 The first Buddhist temple in US established, Los Angeles
- 1911 46" of rain (begining 7/14) falls in Baguio, Phillipines
- 1916 22.22" of rain falls in Altapass NC
- 1916 In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
- 1918 2nd Battle of Marne began during WW I
- 1920 Ruth ties his record of 29 HRs in a season
- 1922 The first duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at NY zoo
- 1926 BEST buses make its dbut in Mumbai.
- 1927 Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
- 1929 First weekly radio broadcast of Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word.
- 1929 The first airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca
- 1931 Kid Chocolate becomes Cuba's first world boxing champion.
- 1932 The Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway is opened throughout between North Bay and Moosonee, Ont. Construction was started on May 10, 1902. The name was subsequently changed to Ontario Northland Transportation.
- 1933 Wiley Post began first solo flight around the world
- 1937 Buchenwald concentration camp is opened.
- 1937 Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China
- 1940 Robert Wadlow world's tallest man (8'11.1"), dies at 32
- 1940 Voluntary Defence Force (VDC), composed mainly of World War One veterans, formed by Returned Sailors' Soldiers' and Airmen's League of Australia for home defence
- 1941 Florey & Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Pencillin)
- 1942 First deportees sent to Auschwitz come from Germany and Holland.
- 1942 Sgt. Keith Elliott 22 NZ Battalion, won the Victoria Cross at
- 1944 Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb
- 1946 British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown
- 1948 John J Persing US General (WW I), dies at 87
- 1948 Pres Truman nominated for another term
- 1949 Czech tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny & Vladimir Cernik, defect to US
- 1952 Visitor posting - William Robert Fisher Jr. was born in Georgetown, Ohio
- 1953 John Reginald Christie, British serial killer executed.
- 1953 Visitor posting - Award winning Educator and Photographer Richard Papazian born, Fort Wayne, IN - USA
- 1954 First flight of the Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner.
- 1954 The first commercial jet transport plane built in US tested (Boeing 707)
- 1955 Eighteen Nobel laureates signed the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
- 1956 Visitor posting - Rachel Moore was born today! - USA
- 1957 Full-scale production of the Edsel automobile begins.
- 1957 George Cleveland actor (Grampa-Lassie), dies at 74
- 1958 Visitor posting - Roberta Lynn Bailey was born - USA
- 1958 In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to provide military support to the pro-Western government there.
- 1958 Julia Lennon mother of Beatle John, dies in an auto accident
- 1958 Pres Eisenhower sends US troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months
- 1959 The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
- 1964 Barry M Goldwater (Sen-R-Az) nominated for president by Republicans
- 1965 US scientists display close-up photos of Mars from Mariner IV
- 1968 "One Life to Live" premieres on TV
- 1968 Visitor posting - robert adam wallis was born in phila pa - USA
- 1970 Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in first world female soccer championship
- 1971 Pres Nixon announces he would visit People's Rep of China
- 1973 Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide
- 1974 Christine Chubbuck becomes the first person to commit suicide on-air.
- 1974 In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'tat, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
- 1975 Apollo Soyuz Test Project: Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space.
- 1975 Clifford Antone opens the legendary Austin blues club Antone's on 6th Street.
- 1975 Soyuz 19 & Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later
- 1976 36-hr kidnap of 26 schoolchildren & their bus driver in Calif
- 1977 Visitor posting - Ray Toro was born! - USA
- 1980 Eddie Jackson comedian (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 84
- 1982 Body of Wendy Caulfield, first Green River victim, found near Seattle
- 1982 Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th sec of state by vote of 97-0
- 1982 Wendy Caulfield first Green River victim, found near Seattle
- 1983 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France
- 1983 Eddie Foy Jr actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange), dies of cancer at 78
- 1983 Nintendo released the Famicom in Japan, starting the Third Generation of Video Games
- 1986 Benny Rubin actor/comedian (Benny Rubin Show), dies at 87
- 1986 Florence Halop actress (Florence-Night Court), dies at 63
- 1987 John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings
- 1988 Eleanor Estes author (Ginger Pye, Moffats), dies at 82
- 1990 Troy Dixon rapper (Trouble T-Roy of Heavy D), dies at 22 from a fall
- 1991 Bert Convy actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw), dies at 57
- 1991 US troops leave northern Iraq
- 1995 First item sold on Amazon.com
- 1996 A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
- 1997 In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
- 1998 Visitor posting - On this day in 1998, Katie Peterson was born in Bellevue Washington. Her job in this world is to bring light. - USA
- 2002 Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan awarded death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life term to three other suspects in murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
- 2003 AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
- 2003 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed its SARS-related travel advisory for Taiwan, the last area to have such a travel alert.
- 2004 Monorail service begins in Las Vegas.
- 2004 The BBC airs the documentary The Secret Agent, exposing racism by members of the British National Party.
- 2005 Jack Nicklaus plays his last hole of competitive golf during The Open Championship at Hole 18 at St Andrews, finishing with a birdie.
- 2005 the EPA approves a 70 parts per million addition of fluoride to all processed foods.
- 2006 Mogadishu Int'l Airport in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu re-opens after an eleven-year closure mainly due to the Somali civil war.
- 2007 Lewis Gordon Pugh becomes the first person to swim at the North Pole.
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