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- 0070 Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem
- 0221 Death - -BC- Chu Yuan China's poet drowns
- 1257 Krakw, Poland received city rights.
- 1305 Pope Clement V is elected.
- 1661 Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
- 1718 Birth - Thomas Chippendale England, furniture maker (baptized)
- 1723 Birth - Adam Smith Kirkcaldy Scot, economist (Wealth of Nations) (baptized)
- 1783 Brothers Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier publicly demonstrate their hot-air baloon in 10-minute flight over Annonay, France
- 1783 Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make first public balloon flight
- 1794 The U.S. Congress pases the Neutrality Act, prohibiting Americans from enlisting in the service of a foreign power.
- 1798 Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
- 1805 The first recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)
- 1806 Batavian Republic becomes the Kingdom of Holland
- 1806 The first trotter to break 3 minute mile (Yankee)
- 1817 First Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
- 1819 Birth - John Couch Adams co-discover (Neptune)
- 1823 Birth - George Thorndike Angell Mass, lawyer (ASPCA)
- 1825 Birth - Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry Georgia, educator (Rep-Ala, 1857-61)
- 1829 HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
- 1832 Parisian student uprisings of 1832 begin.
- 1833 Ada Lovelace (future first computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
- 1837 Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
- 1849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
- 1851 Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
- 1855 Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's first convention
- 1863 CSS "Alabama" captures the "Tailsman" in the Mid Atlantic
- 1864 Death - Gen William E "Grumble" Jones killed at Piedmont
- 1872 Republican National Convention meets (Phila)
- 1875 Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens
- 1876 Bananas become popular in US, at Centennial Exposition in Phila
- 1878 Birth - Francisco (Pancho) Villa Mexico, revolutionary/guerrilla leader
- 1883 Birth - John Maynard Keynes Cambridge England, economist/math/journalist
- 1887 Birth - Ruth Benedict US, anthropologist (Patterns of Culture)
- 1888 Rio de la Plata Earthquake 1888: Uruguay 3.20 UTC-3, 5,5 Richter Scale, 3436'00S, 5753'59'W.
- 1895 Birth - William Boyd Ohio, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy)
- 1898 Birth - Federico Garca Lorca Spain, poet/dramatist (Blood Wedding)
- 1900 Birth - Dennis Gabor inventor (holography (3D laser photography))
- 1900 Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
- 1900 The German Cruise liner, Deutschland III sets a new speed record.
- 1905 Birth - Art Donovan NFL defensive tackle (Balt, NY Yanks, Dallas)
- 1905 Birth - John Abbott London, actor (Smogasboard)
- 1907 BAPS Swaminarayan religion established.
- 1912 Birth - Josef Neckermann German FR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1968)
- 1912 US marines invade Cuba (3nd time)
- 1914 Birth - Stan Jones Douglas Az, actor (Sheriff of Cochise)
- 1915 Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
- 1916 Death - Horatio H Kitchener British General (Sudan), dies at 65
- 1916 Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- 1916 Stein's Dixie Jazz Band plays its first gig under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
- 1916 UK hist Sinking of HMS Hampshire and death of Kitchener
- 1917 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I
- 1917 Some ten million men begin registering for the draft in World War I.
- 1917 World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day."
- 1919 Birth - Akeo Watanabe Tokyo Japan, conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1956-68)
- 1920 Birth - Marion Motley AAFC, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh)
- 1923 Birth - Daniel Pinkham Lynn Massachusetts, composer (Signs of Zodiac)
- 1925 Birth - Bill Hayes Harvey Ill, actor/singer (Your Show of Shows)
- 1925 Birth - Dorothy Claire LaPorte Ind, singer (Winchell & Mahoney)
- 1926 Birth - Bill Hayes Illinois, actor, (Your Show of Shows, Days of our Life)
- 1928 Birth - Robert Lansing SD Calif, actor (12 O'Clock High, Equalizer, Automan)
- 1928 Birth - Tony Richardson England, director (Delicate Balance, Hotel NH)
- 1931 Birth - Jacques Demy France, director (Lola, Magic Donkey)
- 1932 Birth - Christy Brown Dublin, novelist (My Left Foot, Down All the Days)
- 1933 The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
- 1933 The United States goes off the gold standard.
- 1933 US goes off gold standard
- 1934 Birth - Bill D Moyers Hugo Okla, news commentator (Bill Moyers' Journal)
- 1934 Birth - F Curtis Michel LaCrosse Wisconsin, astronaut
- 1934 The first formal meeting of The Baker Street Irregulars (NYC)
- 1937 A Bohrmann discovers asteroid #1455 Mitchella
- 1937 Birth - Waylon Jennings Littlefield Tx, country singer (Dukes of Hazzard)
- 1938 Birth - Marion Chapman smallest known premature baby to survive (280 g)
- 1939 Birth - Charles Joseph Clark (P-C) 16th Canadian PM (1979-80)
- 1939 Birth - Ken Follett spy author (Eye of the the Needle)
- 1939 Birth - Margaret Drabble author (The Needle's Eye)
- 1940 Battle of France begins in WW II
- 1940 Synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh
- 1940 The Battle of France begins during World War II.
- 1941 Birth - Martha Argerich Buenos Aires Argentina, pianist (debut 1949)
- 1941 Cyprus reinforced by Australian troops
- 1941 Four thousands Chongqing residents were asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
- 1942 Eichmann officially notes that since December 1941, 97,000 people have been "processed" in three gas-vans.
- 1944 Birth - Tommie Smith US sprinter (Olympic-gold-1968); gave black power salute
- 1944 Rome is captured intact by the 5th Army.
- 1944 The first B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure
- 1944 World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
- 1945 Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
- 1945 Berlin council of Allied commanders begins.
- 1945 Birth - Don Reid Va, country singer (Statler Bros-Flowers on the Wall)
- 1945 Birth - John Carlos track star (Olympic bronze 1968); gave black power salute
- 1945 USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany
- 1946 A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, kills 61 people.
- 1946 Birth - Stefania Sandrelli Viareggio Italy, actress (The Key)
- 1946 Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 (Chicago Ill)
- 1947 Marshall Plan: At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
- 1947 Sec of State George C Marshall outlines "The Marshall Plan"
- 1950 Birth - Adrian Cosma Romania, team handball (Olympic-silver-1976)
- 1950 US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation
- 1951 Visitor posting - BIRTH of the BEST MOM IN THE WORLD: Belen Magay Meran - Philippines [email protected]
- 1953 Death - Bill Tilden tennis champ, dies at 60
- 1953 Denmark adopts a new constitution
- 1956 Birth - Kenny G saxophonist (Duotones)
- 1956 Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
- 1956 Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Const
- 1957 NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes
- 1959 Birth - Michael Winans gospel singer (The Winans)
- 1959 The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
- 1963 British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal.
- 1963 Movement of 15 Khordad: protest against arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators were confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
- 1964 Birth - Mags rocker (Fuzzbox-Into Rescue)
- 1964 Davie Jones & King Bees debut "I Can't Help Thinking About Me", group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie
- 1967 Israel raids Egyptian military targets. Syria, Iraq, and Jordan also entered the conflict.
- 1967 Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in the electric chair
- 1967 Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
- 1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who was immediately arrested. Kennedy had just claimed victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. 68
- 1968 Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day
- 1968 U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
- 1969 International communist conference begins in Moscow.
- 1969 Race riot in Hartford Connecticut
- 1970 Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1970 Death - Jay Irving cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 69
- 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm
- 1974 Birth - Chad Allen Lazzari Cerritos Cal, actor (David-Our House, My 2 Dads)
- 1974 Birth - Chassity Lazzari Cerritos Cal, actress
- 1975 Egypt reopens the Suez Canal to international shipping. The canal had been closed for 8 years since the 1967 war (6 day war) with Israel.
- 1975 The UK holds its first and only UK-wide referendum, on remaining in the EEC.
- 1976 Number one hit on UK music charts - J J Barrie - No Charge
- 1976 Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die)
- 1977 A coup takes place in Seychelles.
- 1977 The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.
- 1977 The first personal computer, the Apple II, goes on sale
- 1980 Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
- 1981 Center of Disease Control reports of a pneumonia affecting gays (AIDS)
- 1981 The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
- 1982 Waterfront streetcar begins operating in Seattle
- 1983 Yannich Noah becomes first Frenchman to win French Open since WW II
- 1984 Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site (Golden Temple)
- 1986 A 52-year old man in Auburn, Washington, United States, dies after taking an Excedrin capsule laced with cyanide; this is the first of two Excedrin deaths.
- 1987 "Nightline" presents it's first "Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS & the show runs until 3:47 AM
- 1988 Death - Clarence M Pendleton chairman of comm on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies
- 1989 Billy Smith, last original NY Islander, retires
- 1989 The Inuvialuit Final Agreement is signed in Canada to give the Inuit of western Canada the first comprehensive land claim agreement north of the 60th parallel.
- 1989 The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
- 1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched
- 1994 Visitor posting - Birth- Michelle B. Washington - USA
- 1995 Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Apoorva Anil's Birthday ! Happy Birthday - India
- 1995 Visitor posting - My birthday, what Now Jacquyse Atyanna Robinson LOVE YOU - USA
- 1997 Visitor posting - Birth- Caitlin Cunningham , morley , Dancer - United Kingdom
- 1997 Visitor posting - Diego Gerardo Acosta born to Alma Abigail in El Paso - USA
- 1998 A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).
- 2001 Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
- 2001 U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.
- 2003 Severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50C in the region.
- 2006 Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro
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