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- 1276 while taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song.
- 1381 King Richard II of England meets the leaders of Peasants' Revolt.
- 1623 The first breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against Cicely Jordan. He loses
- 1642 The first compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
- 1645 UK hist Battle of Naseby: Parliament's New Model Army crushes the Royalist forces
- 1648 Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
- 1775 The U.S. Army is founded.
- 1777 Stars and Stripes adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
- 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty: HMAV Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,000-mile) journey in an open boat.
- 1789 Whisky distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
- 1800 French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
- 1807 Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland, modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast, ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
- 1821 Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
- 1822 Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables."
- 1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine
- 1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
- 1839 Henley Royal Regatta: The village of Henley, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first Regatta.
- 1841 The first Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
- 1846 Bear Flag Revolt begins - Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
- 1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma
- 1846 U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaim the Republic of California.
- 1847 Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide
- 1850 Fire destroys part of SF
- 1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia
- 1864 Battle of Pine Mt, Gen Leonidas Polk killed in action
- 1872 Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
- 1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
- 1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr, Cambridge, Mass
- 1900 Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
- 1900 The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
- 1907 Norway adopts female suffrage.
- 1908 Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major warships.
- 1917 Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
- 1919 John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
- 1919 The first nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Nfld
- 1923 Pres Harding is first US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore
- 1928 Republican Natl Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover
- 1931 French "St Philbert" overturned off St Nazaire France, drowns 450
- 1934 James J. Braddock scored one of the most upsetting victories in of his boxing career by beating John "Corn" Griffin - roughly marking the advent of his comeback to success and eventually winning World Heavyweight championship
- 1934 Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City
- 1935 Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends
- 1937 Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
- 1937 U. S. House of Representatives passes the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act.
- 1938 Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
- 1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
- 1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins the first Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
- 1940 A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnw become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 1940 German forces occupied Paris during WW II
- 1940 Spanish invade Tangier international zone.
- 1940 The Nazis open the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Also: German troops enter Paris during World War II.
- 1940 World War II: Paris falls under German occupation,German troops march into Paris, meeting practically no resistance as French and allied forces retreat.
- 1941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS
- 1941 Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians, the June deportation, began.
- 1942 Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.
- 1942 The first bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct
- 1942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released
- 1944 The first B-29 raid against mainland Japan
- 1945 Rod Argent, rocker (The Zombies-Never Even Thought)
- 1946 Canadian Library Association established
- 1949 State of Vietnam formed
- 1951 UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.
- 1952 Keel laid for first nuclear powered sub the Nautilus
- 1952 The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
- 1953 Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis, Tenn
- 1955 Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1959 A group of Dominican exiles with leftist tendencies which departed from Cuba landed in the Dominican Republic with the intent of deposing Rafael Lenidas Trujillo Molina's dicatorial regime. Save for four of them, all were killed and/or executed by Trujillo's army. This feat would be the inspiration for a clandestine group that would seek to continue undermining Trujillo's power and would be called "Movimiento Catorce de Junio" (14th of June Movement).
- 1962 Anna Slesers becomes the first victim of Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler.
- 1962 New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70 N.M. 196, prohibited state and local governments from denying Indians the right to vote because they lived on a reservation.
- 1962 The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris later becoming the European Space Agency.
- 1963 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days
- 1965 Beatles release the album "Beatles VI"
- 1965 John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published
- 1966 6 RAR arrives in South Vietnam
- 1966 The Vatican announces the abolition of the index librorum prohibitum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.
- 1967 Launch of Mariner V for Venus fly-by
- 1969 John & Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show
- 1975 Janis Ian releases "At 17"
- 1976 "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication)
- 1976 The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther.
- 1979 Rock group "Little Feat" disbands
- 1982 Argentine forces surrender at Port Stanley. Argentina has lost more than 1,000 men including those who went down with the cruiser General Belgrano, Britain 243. Argentina has lost 74 planes and 7 helicopters, says Britain; Britain has lost 48 planes, says Argentina.
- 1982 Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
- 1983 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx
- 1985 Lebanese Shiite Moslem gunmen hijack TWA 847 after Athens' takeoff
- 1985 UK hist Schengen Agreement on abolition of border controls agreed between Belgium, France, West Germany, Luxembourg, and The Netherlands – not implemented until 26 Mar 1995 when it also included Spain & Portugal – by 2007 there are 30 states included
- 1987 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor
- 1989 Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame
- 1991 Marshall Ledbetter occupies the Florida State Capitol.
- 1992 Visitor posting - Eric Arroyo is born and announced cutest baby ever.
- 1993 A weeklong product tampering scare, later proven to be a hoax, occurs as customers throughout the USA discover syringes in unopened cans of Diet Pepsi Cola.
- 1993 U.S. President Clinton selects Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a women's rights advocate, to serve on the Supreme Court.
- 1994 Visitor posting - Clayton Isaac Harding - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - Stanford (the born musician) was born - USA
- 1994 The New York Rangers end the 54 year Stanley Cup curse by defeating the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 in the Stanley Cup final Game 7. The series finished 4-3 to the Rangers.
- 1999 Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated as the President of South Africa.
- 2001 China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
- 2002 Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a car bomb explosion in front of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
- 2004 The Workers Party of Bangladesh is split, as Khandaker Ali Abbas leaves to form a new party.
- 2005 Asafa Powell from Jamaica sets a new world record on the 100 m sprint in Athens with 9.77 seconds.
- 2006 Visitor posting - Orion Michael Brown graced the world with his presence - USA
- 2007 The investment bank Bear Stearns Cos. Report a 10 percent decline in quarterly earnings as the mortgage market shows signs of cracking
- 2010 Country music legend Jimmy Dean dies. Jimmy Dean is best known for his song "Big Bad John."
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