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- 0451 Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun.
- 1214 University of Oxford receives its charter.
- 1402 Battle of Angora (Ankara)-Tatars defeat Turkish Army
- 1631 The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
- 1632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
- 1646 UK hist Royalists sign articles of surrender at Oxford
- 1685 Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
- 1714 The Bridge of San Luis Rey breaks, killing five travellers crossing it (fictious).
- 1756 146 Brit soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die
- 1756 British garrison imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
- 1779 Battle of Stone Ferry
- 1782 Congress approves Great Seal of US & the eagle as it's symbol
- 1782 The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
- 1789 Deputies of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath.
- 1789 Oath of the Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken
- 1791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
- 1793 Eli Whitney applies for a cotton gin patent
- 1819 The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, but most of the journey was made under sail.
- 1837 England issues its first stamp, 1P Queen Victoria
- 1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
- 1855 Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin
- 1862 Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
- 1863 First bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
- 1863 West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
- 1864 Australians in engagement at Te Ranga, New Zealand
- 1867 Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
- 1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss
- 1874 First US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)
- 1887 Queen Victoria's golden jubilee.
- 1893 Lizzie Borden is acquitted of murdering her stepmother and father.
- 1895 First female doctor of science earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
- 1895 Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
- 1900 A "Boxer Rebellion" rocks China beginning when foreign legations at Beijing are besieged by members of a militia force
- 1907 First Portland Rose festival
- 1910 "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal
- 1911 NAACP incorporates (NY)
- 1919 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagez, Puerto Rico.
- 1920 Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed
- 1921 29.2 cm (11.5") of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record)
- 1926 Mordecai W Johnson becomes first black president of Howard University
- 1929 Visitor posting - June 20, 1929 Ned Hauss is born
- 1936 Jesse Owens of the US sets 100 meter record at 10.2
- 1939 Test flight of first rocket plane using liquid propellants
- 1942 Japanese submarine shells isolated Estevan Point on Vancouver Island, with little damage; only time Canadian land territory under fire in World War II
- 1943 National Congress of Racial Equality organizes
- 1943 Ungava Bay Quebec, Chubb sights the New Quebec Crater; one of the world's largest, at 403 metres deep and nearly 11 km around.
- 1944 Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
- 1947 Pres Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act
- 1948 "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV
- 1948 Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, debuts.
- 1949 Visitor posting - Jun 20, 1949 The fabulous Evelyn Salter was born!
- 1950 Joe Dimaggio's 2,000th hit
- 1956 A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashed in Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey killing 74 people.
- 1959 A train-bus collision near Lauffen, Germany kills 43 people
- 1959 Escuminac New Brunswick a severe storm in Northumberland Strait sinks 22 boats, drowns 35 fishermen.
- 1960 Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France
- 1963 Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income
- 1963 Number one hit on UK music charts - Gerry & The Pacemakers - I Like It
- 1963 The so-called "red telephone" is established between Soviet Union and United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 1966 Canada sells 336 million bushels (9.14 teragrams) of wheat to Soviet Union.
- 1966 Sheila Scott completes first round-the-world solo flight by a woman
- 1967 Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services
- 1968 Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
- 1969 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear
- 1973 Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fired upon left-wing peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 injured.
- 1977 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
- 1978 In Greece a 6.6 quake was centered about 30 kilometers northeast of Thessaloniki. At least 50 people were killed, many injured and there was extensive damage in the Thessaloniki area
- 1980 Augusta AVA became the first federally recognized American Viticultural Area.
- 1980 Roberto Duran takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous decision
- 1983 Visitor posting - Aimee Carriker was born in Atlanta, Georgia. - USA
- 1983 LZW patent filed in USA.
- 1986 Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon
- 1987 Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
- 1987 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Firm - Star Trekkin'
- 1990 40,000-50,000 die in a (7.6) earthquake in Iran
- 1990 Visitor posting - Sam Missy and Chelo Figure out the Historical happenings of their b-dayz - USA
- 1990 Asteroid Eureka discovered.
- 1990 Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of the US
- 1991 German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
- 1991 Visitor posting - Patrick Sampson Hit the lottery
- 1992 Visitor posting - Jeff Phillion is born - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - Heidi born - United Kingdom
- 1997 Visitor posting - Preston Cates was born. At this time the fifth generation in the Cates heritige thats alive. - USA
- 1998 Visitor posting - Alexxis Causley was born!!!! :) :) :) - USA
- 1998 Visitor posting - the fabulous will carter was born - USA
- 2003 Formation of Wikimedia Foundation announced.
- 2003 LZW patent expires in USA.
- 2010 Visitor posting - The fantabulous Lisa Jacobs was born!!! - United Kingdom
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