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- 1097 The Battle of Nicaea ends in defeat for a Muslim army at the hands of a combined force of Crusaders and Byzantine Greeks who take the Seljuk Turks' capital
- 1422 Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
- 1520 The Spaniards are expelled from Tenochtitlan.
- 1559 King Henry II of France is seriously injured in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery.
- 1607 Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published
- 1651 The Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.
- 1688 The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, beginning the struggle for English independence from Rome which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
- 1741 Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms
- 1794 Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
- 1805 The U.S. Congress organizes Michigan Territory.
- 1834 Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
- 1859 Charles Blondin is first to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
- 1859 French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
- 1862 Day 6 of the 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp
- 1870 Ada Kepley becomes first female law college graduate
- 1871 Guatemala revolts for agarian reforms
- 1882 Charles Guiteau hanged in Washington, DC for the shooting death of President James Garfield.
- 1893 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
- 1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
- 1894 UK hist Tower Bridge first opens
- 1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die
- 1902 S I Bailey discovers asteroid #504 Cora
- 1905 Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", where he introduces special relativity.
- 1906 John Hope becomes first black president of Morehouse College
- 1906 Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act adopted
- 1908 Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (Tunguska Event)
- 1908 The Tunguska impact event occurs in Siberia.
- 1912 The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.
- 1913 2nd Balkan War begins
- 1914 Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa
- 1921 U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft chief justice of the United States.
- 1927 Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
- 1933 US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id & Salt Lake City Utah closes
- 1934 "Night of the Long Knives,"the murderous purge of the S.A.
- 1934 French Equitorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit
- 1934 The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
- 1935 The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
- 1936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published
- 1936 40 hour work week law approved (federal)
- 1939 Heinkel He. 176 rocket plane flies for first time, at Peenemnde
- 1940 "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, first appears
- 1940 US Fish & Wildlife Service established
- 1941 HMAS Waterhen sunk on Tobruk run, in the Eastern Mediterranean off Bardia, east Libya by German divebombers.
- 1942 Australian troops raid Salamaua
- 1942 US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
- 1944 The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
- 1948 Cleve Indian Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers, 2-0
- 1948 Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs)
- 1950 Pres Truman orders US troops into Korea
- 1951 NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination
- 1952 "The Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV
- 1953 The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
- 1956 A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 (Flight 718) collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States, killing all 128 on the two planes.
- 1956 United DC-7 & TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128
- 1960 Za‹re (then Belgian Congo) gains independence from Belgium
- 1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
- 1962 LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0
- 1962 Rwanda & Burundi become independent
- 1963 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church
- 1963 Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and military officers near Palermo.
- 1964 Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit
- 1966 Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour
- 1967 Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named first black astronaut
- 1969 Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra.
- 1969 Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco
- 1970 Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City
- 1971 Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
- 1971 The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
- 1972 +1 leap second was added to the UTC time system.
- 1973 Number one hit on UK music charts - Slade - Skweeze Me Pleeze Me
- 1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse
- 1974 Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub. 24 die (Port Chester NY)
- 1975 Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado
- 1975 Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman
- 1976 A Naval Aviator tradition came to an end when brown shoes were stricken from the officers' and chiefs' uniforms. The tradition initially distinguished the Brown Shoe Navy of the aviators from the black shoes of the surface officers.
- 1977 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
- 1977 Marvel Comics publish the "Kiss book" tributing the rock group Kiss
- 1977 US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC)
- 1977 Virginia Wade wins the Ladies Singles title at Wimbledon, the last British champion at the All England Club to date.
- 1979 Johnny Rotten & Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury
- 1979 Number one hit on UK music charts - Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric
- 1979 Visitor posting - Steve & Karen Grubb were married
- 1981 China's Communist Party condemns the late Mao Tse-tung's policy
- 1982 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
- 1982 Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale
- 1984 Visitor posting - Manju born - India
- 1985 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
- 1985 Thirty-nine American hostages from a hijacked TWA jetliner are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
- 1986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4)
- 1987 Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in the high jump
- 1987 The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie
- 1988 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason
- 1988 French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Catholic church.
- 1989 Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to the UK
- 1989 Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl
- 1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile & Guam
- 1989 NY State Legislature passes Staten Island seccession bill jul051054 A minor star in the constellation Taurus explodes July 5 in a supernova that is visible by daylight for 23 days and remains visible at night for another 633 days, an event recorded by pictographs in China and in the Western Hemisphere
- 1990 East and West Germany merge their economies.
- 1990 Visitor posting - june,30,1990 my Baby Hussam Fathallah was born with the very start of a blessed day!
- 1991 Visitor posting - Birthdate of Jordan Steven Dodge. A very good looking man from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Rob was born on a sunny day!
- 1993 Visitor posting - June 30 1993 Shawn Batzig Entered this World
- 1994 Visitor posting - Brant Thomsons birthday - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - Armando Villalobos was born in Norwalk, Ohio
- 1997 The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
- 1997 UK hist Publication of first Harry Potter novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- 1998 Visitor posting - Logan Martindale was born in Naples, FL - USA
- 1999 Southern Rails Cooperative (Red Coat Road and Rail) takes over operation of the 71.5 mile CP line from Pangman to Assiniboia in Saskatchewan.
- 2003 Visitor posting - June 30,2003-- Joseph and Rachel Ellenbecker were married
- 2005 Spain legalizes same-sex marriage.
- 2007 A car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist attack.
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