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- 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England
- 1568 Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen - Fernando lvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau
- 1588 English fleet defeats Spanish armada
- 1667 The Treaties of Breda signed, ended the second Anglo-Dutch war after a Dutch fleet has broken the chain in England's Medway River, reached Chatham, and captured the flagship Royal Charles.
- 1718 Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
- 1774 Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
- 1796 Robert Burns Scottish poet, dies
- 1823 After pirate attack, LT David G. Farragut leads landing party to destroy pirate stronghold in Cuba.
- 1831 Belgium gains independence from Netherland, Leopold I made king
- 1831 Inauguration of Lopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
- 1836 The first Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie & St John, Quebec
- 1846 Mormons found first English settlement in Calif (San Joaquin Valley)
- 1861 American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run - At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins (Confederate victory).
- 1861 Battle of first Bull Run
- 1861 The first major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins
- 1865 In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots Dave Tutt dead in what is regarded as the first true western showdown.
- 1873 At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American West.
- 1877 After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
- 1880 Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY League merge to form National Association of Colored Woman
- 1898 Spain cedes Guam to US
- 1904 Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH
- 1919 The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
- 1925 John Scopes convicted of teaching evolution in Tennessee.
- 1930 US Veterans Administration established
- 1931 CBS's New York City station begins broadcasting the first regular seven days a week television schedule in the U.S.
- 1931 Reno race track, becomes first in US to use daily double wagering
- 1934 113ø F (45ø C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)
- 1940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
- 1942 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Va
- 1944 Invasion and recapture of Guam begins.
- 1944 US forces free Guam of Japanese invaders
- 1946 In first U.S. test of adaptability of jet aircraft to shipboard operations, XFD-1 Phantom makes landings and takeoffs without catapults from Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1948 Arshile Gorky abstract expressionist, dies at 43
- 1949 Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13
- 1954 At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam
- 1954 First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
- 1957 Bernard Spooner US inventor of bulletproof jacket, dies
- 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the first woman prime minister in the world, making her the first elected female national leader in the world (Sri Lanka).
- 1960 The country of Katanga forms in Africa
- 1961 Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom
- 1961 Visitor posting - Kathleen Susan Berggren is born in Van Nuys Californai. - USA
- 1961 Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission - Gus Grissom piloting "Liberty Bell 7" becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
- 1962 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany Ga
- 1964 Visitor posting - July 21 1964 Lactaki's birthday
- 1965 Pakistan, Iran & Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact
- 1966 Gemini X returns to Earth
- 1966 Number one hit on UK music charts - Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames - Get Away
- 1967 Basil Rathbone Johannesburg S Africa, actor, dies at 75
- 1969 Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission. At 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
- 1969 Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits
- 1970 After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
- 1972 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76 (Seville, Spain)
- 1972 Bloody Friday bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) around Belfast, Northern Ireland - 22 bomb explosions, 9 people killed and 130 people seriously injured.
- 1972 In New York, 57 murders occur in 24 hours (Murder City?)
- 1972 Jigme Dori Wangchuck king of Bhutan, dies
- 1973 Hank Aaron becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 700 HRs
- 1973 In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in 1972's Munich Olympics Massacre.
- 1973 Number one hit on UK music charts - Peters & Lee - Welcome Home
- 1973 USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of the red planet
- 1976 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Brit ambassador to Ireland is assassinated
- 1976 The first outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Phila
- 1977 Start of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
- 1977 Visitor posting - Nimrat Lamba was born. - India
- 1978 The final flight of the service acceptance trials for the AH-1T Cobra helicopter gunship was made at Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent Rive
- 1978 US Postal Service & unions agree on a contract averting mail strike
- 1978 World's strongest dog, 80-kg St Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m
- 1979 National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, NY) dedicated
- 1980 Jean-Claude Droyer climbs the Eiffel Tower in 2 hrs 18 mins
- 1982 Dave Garroway TV host (Today Show), dies at 69
- 1983 Polish govt ends 19 months of martial law
- 1983 Storm cuts short Diana Ross' free concert in NY's Central Park
- 1983 The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at 89.2C (129F).
- 1983 US announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge
- 1984 Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
- 1985 Mickey Shaughnessy actor (Chicago Teddy Bears), dies at 65
- 1985 Vicki Vola actress (Miss Miller-Mr District Attorney)
- 1986 Pleasure Island plans unveiled
- 1986 Virginia Hewitt actress (Carol-Space Patrol), dies at 60
- 1987 Navy escorts first Earnest Will Convoy in the Persian Gulf.
- 1988 ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian)
- 1989 Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors
- 1989 Greg LeMond (US) wins Tour de France in fastest time
- 1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Carl "the Truth" Williams in 1:33 of first round
- 1990 Goodwill Games opens in Seattle Wash
- 1990 Pink Floyds' "The Wall" is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood
- 1993 Visitor posting - Frankie Logan Was Born! - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - Adam Spice-Alva born. My pet is a cat named cooper - USA
- 1994 Tony Blair is declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party, paving the way to him becoming Prime Minister in 1997.
- 1994 Visitor posting - 07-21-1994 Natasha Sutherland was born
- 1995 Visitor posting - monica serrano born - USA
- 1995 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
- 1997 The fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") celebrates her 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
- 1998 Alan Shepard dies in Monterey, CA, at age 74. Shepard was the first American in space, and later commanded the Apollo 14 moon mission. He was the fifth person to walk on the lunar surface.
- 2002 Telecom giant WorldCom files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the largest such filing in United States history.
- 2004 The United Kingdom government publishes Delivering Security in a Changing World, a paper detailing wide-ranging reform of the country's armed forces.
- 2005 A second series of four explosions took place on the London Underground and a London bus. The detonators of all four bombs exploded, but none of the main explosive charges detonated, and there were no casualties: the single injury reported at the time was later revealed to be an asthma sufferer. All suspected bombers from this failed attack escaped from the scenes but were later arrested.
- 2005 Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London's public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers escaped.
- 2007 Release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowlingthe final book in the Harry Potter series.
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