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- 0956 Hugh the Great dies 2 months after becoming effective master of Burgundy
- 1462 Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II in The Night Attack, and the latter is forced to retreat from Wallachia.
- 1497 Battle of Deptford Bridge - Forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
- 1565 Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
- 1579 Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
- 1631 Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years to build her tomb, the Taj Mahal.
- 1745 American colonials capture the French fort Louisburg on Cape Breton Island
- 1773 Ccuta, Colombia is founded by Juana Rangel de Cullar
- 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)
- 1789 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly
- 1789 In France, the Third Estate declares itself the national assembly.
- 1833 USS Delaware enters drydock at Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk, VA, the first warship to enter a public drydock in the United States
- 1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his first rubber patent
- 1839 In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established as a result.
- 1850 Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)
- 1856 Republican Party opens its first national convention in Philadelphia
- 1863 Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
- 1863 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer)
- 1870 USS Mohican burns Mexican pirate ship Forward
- 1882 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa
- 1885 The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbour (in 350 pieces on board the French frigate Isère)
- 1895 US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan
- 1897 William Frank Powell, NJ educator, named minister to Haiti
- 1898 Navy Hospital Corps established
- 1901 The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
- 1919 "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premiers
- 1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become first woman to fly the Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
- 1930 U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
- 1932 Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
- 1933 Union Station Massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash were gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
- 1936 Himmler is appointed chief of the German Police.
- 1939 Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.
- 1940 Chief of Naval Operations asks Congress for money to build two-ocean Navy
- 1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
- 1940 The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
- 1940 World War II: Sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
- 1942 HMS WILD SWAN, sunk in the North Atlantic off south west Ireland (c 50-00'N, 11-00'W) - by German Ju88 bombers.
- 1942 The first WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
- 1944 French troops land on German-held Elba.
- 1944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland
- 1945 Australians land at Weston, North Borneo
- 1945 Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)
- 1946 SW Bell innaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis
- 1948 A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
- 1950 The first kidney transplant (Chicago)
- 1953 East Berlin workers rise up to protest low wages and bad conditions. Soviet tanks mow down the strikers with machine gun fire, ending illusions that communism is a workers' paradise.
- 1953 Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for the next day their 14th anniversary
- 1953 Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
- 1954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends
- 1957 Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)
- 1960 Visitor posting - Anne Arden Bryan was born to Elwyn and Ann Bryan @ St Joesephs Hospital, London Ontario - Canada
- 1960 Ted Williams becomes the fourth member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 1961 The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
- 1962 Brazil Beats Czechosolakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago
- 1963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools
- 1965 28.14 cm (11.08") of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record)
- 1965 Number one hit on UK music charts - Elvis Presley - Crying In The Chapel
- 1967 Barbra Striesand: A Happening in Central Park performed
- 1967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power
- 1970 UK hist Decimal postage stamps first issued for sale in Britain
- 1971 C U Cesco discovers asteroid #2399 Terradas
- 1971 Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, setting out a plan where the U.S. would return control of Okinawa.
- 1972 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate Oh what a tangled web we weave
- 1972 Looking Glass releases "Brandy"
- 1972 Number one hit on UK music charts - Don McLean - Vincent
- 1972 The Vendome Hotel fire kills 9 Boston fire fighters.
- 1972 Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
- 1975 Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US
- 1978 Number one hit on UK music charts - John Travolta & Olivia Newton John - You're The One That I Want
- 1980 C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2586 Matson
- 1982 Pres Reagan first UN Gen Assembly address ("evil empire" speech)
- 1982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat in the Falklands War with Britian
- 1982 The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
- 1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched
- 1986 Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated
- 1987 With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
- 1988 Bruce Springsteen seperates from Juliette Phillips
- 1988 The Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens
- 1989 US beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
- 1989 Visitor posting - Katlynn Christine Robinson is born to Mardy and Wes Robinsin, Havre MT
- 1991 Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required all racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
- 1991 Visitor posting - Taylor Renee McCullum born - USA
- 1991 Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78
- 1992 A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
- 1994 Following a televised low-speed highway chase and a failed attempt at suicide, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
- 1994 Visitor posting - Michael Eugenio Ramirez was born - USA
- 1999 Visitor posting - birth-kaiden joseph barker was born - USA
- 2010 Deadly tornadoes touched down in Minnesota, killing at least three people, and injuring at least 17 more - USA
- 2010 Grizzly bear kills a 70-year-old man -Erwin Frank Evert, near Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. He was in the forest with his wife, a member of a federal team of researchers studying grizzly bears - USA
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