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- 1053 Norseman Robert Guiscard gains victory at Civitate over papal forces raised by Leo IX, who is captured Robert, 38, takes Benevento from the Byzantines and founds the Norman Empire that will rule southern Italy until 1194
- 1305 Flemish-French peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
- 1314 Start of the Battle of Bannockburn south of Stirling, Edward II of England & Robert I of Scotland met in battle. Scotland won and Edward fled the field and Scotland.
- 1532 Henry VIII & Franois I sign secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
- 1565 Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman Navy dies, during the Siege of Malta.
- 1611 The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.
- 1661 Marriage contract between Charles II of England & Catharina of Portugal.
- 1683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
- 1713 French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia Canada. [1]
- 1757 Battle of Plassey - 3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
- 1757 Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal
- 1760 Battle of Landshut, Silesia
- 1775 First regatta held on Thames, England
- 1784 First US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)
- 1794 Empress of Russia Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
- 1810 John Jacob Astor organizes Pacific Fur Co (Astoria, Oregon)
- 1812 War of 1812: Great Britain had revoked the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
- 1848 Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris
- 1858 Six-year-old Edgardo Mortara is seized by Papal authorities.
- 1860 US Secret Service created
- 1865 At Fort Towson, Gen Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable army
- 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer"
- 1885 NSW Contingent to Sudan disembarks at Sydney
- 1887 The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park. [2]
- 1888 Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for US president.
- 1894 International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
- 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914) assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnian Serbs initiating World War I.
- 1917 In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
- 1919 Defeat of German forces at Cesis in northern Latvia during Estonian Liberation War, now celebrated annually as Estonian Victory Day.
- 1925 Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming)
- 1926 The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
- 1927 Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox
- 1930 Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 21-8
- 1931 Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
- 1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established
- 1938 Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium
- 1938 The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
- 1939 France turns over Sanjak of Alexandretta (the Hatay) to Turkey
- 1940 World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
- 1941 Lithuanian Activist Front initiates Lithuanian 1941 independence from the Soviet Union; it lasted only briefly as the Nazis occupied Lithuania a few weeks later.
- 1942 World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands in Wales.
- 1943 World War II: The British destroyers Eclipse and Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser Newfoundland.
- 1944 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153
- 1945 The Imperial Japanese armed forces ended organized resistance to the U.S. armed forces in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island of Okinawa.
- 1947 Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress
- 1949 First 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School
- 1951 British diplomats Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean flee to USSR
- 1951 Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage & $14M property-Kansas)
- 1955 In the Strahov Stadium in Prague the 1st all-national Spartakida begins.
- 1955 Walt Disney's "Lady & the Tramp" released
- 1956 Visitor posting - June 23,1956.Walt Disney opened the Disneyland Skyway. - USA [email protected]
- 1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt
- 1957 S B Nicholson discovers asteroid #1647 Menelaus
- 1958 The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
- 1959 A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people.
- 1959 Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career).
- 1960 Number one hit on UK music charts - Eddie Cochran - Three Steps To Heaven
- 1963 Visitor posting - LaVenus M. Brown was born into the world. - USA
- 1963 Visitor posting - Heather Ann Campbell is born in London - United Kingdom
- 1966 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Beatles - Paperback Writer
- 1967 LBJ & Alexei Kosygin hold first of 2 summit meetings in Glassboro, NJ
- 1967 Mohawk Airlines Flight 40 crashes due to an incorrectly installed valve, killing all 34 on board.
- 1967 US Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign funds
- 1968 74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
- 1969 Joe Frazier beats Jerry Quarry for the heavyweight boxing title
- 1969 Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring chief Earl Warren.
- 1970 Rocker Chubby Checker arrest for marijuana pocession
- 1972 45 countries leave the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound.
- 1972 HS-2, HS-15, HS-74 and HS-75 came to the aid of flood stricken residents in the Wilkes-Barre, Scranton and Pottstown areas of Pennsylvania
- 1972 Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history
- 1972 Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
- 1972 Pres Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
- 1972 Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
- 1973 A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
- 1973 Number one hit on UK music charts - 10 CC - Rubber Bullets
- 1975 Rocker Alice Cooper falls of stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs
- 1976 CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens
- 1979 The Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia"
- 1979 The rock group, the Knack releases "My Sharona"
- 1981 Amanda Maccaro becomes first American to win Russian Ballet Competition
- 1981 NYC mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy
- 1982 All time low at the South Pole -117ø F
- 1982 Himmy, of Australia, weighs in at domestic cat record 20.7 kg (45 lb)
- 1982 Visitor posting - The Great Sevarani alias Ramya born in Madurai,India - India
- 1984 Visitor posting - On Tuesday, May 25, 2010: I baked a cake with my tiny chefs! - USA [email protected]
- 1985 A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland; killing all 329 people aboard.
- 1985 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
- 1986 Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House
- 1987 W Landgraf discovers asteroid #3683 Baumann
- 1989 Visitor posting - Trini (aka Ivi, that's me) was born this very special day :) - Mexico
- 1989 The movie "Batman" premiers
- 1990 A rally to save Alien Nation from cancellation held at Stat of Liberty
- 1990 Moldavia declares independence.
- 1990 Number one hit on UK music charts - Elton John - Sacrifice / Healing Hands
- 1990 TV Guide selects Arsenio Hall as TV personality of the year
- 1991 Tony Randall & Jack Klugman star in Bdwy performance of Odd Couple
- 1992 Visitor posting - TaWyana Jones was born on this day!!!! yay me!!! - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - Brooke Betonti (Mikaela Edwards best friend) was born on this very special day!! I LOVE YOU BROOKE BFF!! - USA
- 1999 Phillips explosion of 1999 killed 2 and injured 3 in Pasadena, Texas.
- 2004 Visitor posting - Ariel-Leigh Smith of Manchester NewHampshire starts comercial actress carreer for animal shelters. - United States
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