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- 1096 Crusaders massacre Jews of Worm
- 1152 Henry II marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.
- 1268 The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch; Baibars' destruction of the city of Antioch was so great as to permanently negate the city's importance.
- 1291 Sultan of Egypt & his son take last Christian stronghold of Acre
- 1302 Trades people assault on French garrison (Brugse Metten)
- 1385 Peace of Doornik: Gent & Louis van Thoughts
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut, India
- 1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII of England, is beheaded after being convicted for adultery
- 1588 The Spanish Armada sets sail for England; it is defeated by England the following August
- 1593 Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
- 1596 Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya
- 1619 Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison
- 1631 English colony Massachusetts Bay grants puritarian voting right
- 1631 In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
- 1631 John Winthrop is elected first governor of Massachusetts
- 1642 Montréal Canada founded
- 1642 The Canadian City of Montreal is founded
- 1643 Delegates from four New England colonies meet in Boston to form a confederation
- 1652 Rhode Island enacts first law declaring slavery illegal
- 1652 Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.
- 1703 Dutch & English troops occupy Cologne
- 1765 Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec.
- 1783 First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
- 1794 2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria)
- 1803 Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
- 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
- 1811 Las Piedras Battle first great military triumph of the liberating revolution of the Ro de la Plata in Uruguay leaded by Jose Artigas.
- 1825 Theodoros Kolokotronis, general in the Greek War of Independence is released from prison.
- 1828 Battle of Las Piedras, ends conflict between Uruguay & Brazil
- 1830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, the lawn mower
- 1843 United Free Church of Scotland forms
- 1846 US troops attack Rio Grande occupying Matamoros
- 1848 Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
- 1851 Amsterdam-Nieuwediep telegraph connection linked
- 1852 Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school
- 1860 Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president
- 1861 Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South
- 1863 Siege of Vicksburg MS
- 1864 Battle of Yellow Bayou LA (Bayou de Glaize, Old Oaks)
- 1866 French Government of De Putte resigns
- 1869 Surrender and dissolution of the Ezo Republic to Japan.
- 1869 The Public Credit Act is passed by Ulysses S. Grant, one of his first actions as President of the United States. The Act endorsed the payment of the national debt after the American Civil War in gold currency instead of greenbacks.
- 1876 Wyatt Earp starts work in Dodge City, Kansas under Marshal Larry Deger.
- 1885 Australians depart Suakin in the Sudan for Sydney
- 1896 Khodynka Tragedy: a mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II resulted in the deaths of 1,389 people.
- 1896 US Supreme court affirms "separate but equal" policy (Plessy v Ferguson)
- 1897 Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
- 1897 Irish Music Festival first held (Dublin)
- 1899 World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in first Hague Peace Conference
- 1900 Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga
- 1904 American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco
- 1906 The Federated Boys' Clubs, later to become the Boys' Clubs of America, are organized
- 1910 Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
- 1910 The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
- 1911 President/dictator José Porfirio Diaz of México term ends
- 1912 Maurits Binger establishes 2 Dutch movie companies
- 1915 Major General Sir William Bridges, Commander of the First Division, Australian Imperial Force (AIF), dies of wounds inflicted at Anzac Cove on 15 May His body is buried in the grounds of the Royal Military College, Duntroon
- 1916 US pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft
- 1917 US passes Selective Service act
- 1917 World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 passes the U.S. Congress giving the President the power of conscription.
- 1918 Netherlands Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia
- 1918 TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale PA kills 200
- 1922 Dutch 2nd Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hours)
- 1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California, beach.
- 1927 Ritz Hotel opens in Boston
- 1927 The Bath School Disaster: Forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
- 1933 New Deal: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
- 1933 Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams
- 1934 Academy Award first called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky)
- 1934 Congress approves "Lindbergh Act", makes kidnapping a capital offense
- 1934 TWA begins commercial service
- 1935 T E Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, dies in England from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash
- 1940 Nazis pierce French lines on 62-mile front.
- 1941 Italian army under General Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia
- 1941 Jewish veterans honor their dead
- 1943 Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea
- 1944 Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
- 1944 Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans
- 1944 Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino Italy
- 1944 World War II: SS troops burn down six villages in the Brkini hills in south western Slovenia.
- 1948 Arab Legion captures fort on Mount Scopus
- 1948 Saudi Arabia joins invasion of Israel
- 1948 The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
- 1949 Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America incorporates
- 1951 UN moves HQ to NYC
- 1951 US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea
- 1952 Professor WF Libby said Stonehedge dates back to 1848 BC
- 1953 Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (she flew in a F-86 Sabrejet at an average speed of 652.337 miles per hour (1049.835 km/h) at Rogers Dry Lake, California).
- 1953 The first woman to break the sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA)
- 1954 European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect
- 1955 28.7 cm rain falls at Lake Maloya NM (state record)
- 1955 Atkinson & Depeiaza take West Indies from 6-187 to 6-494 in day vs Australia
- 1955 Queen Juliana opens E55 fair in Amsterdam
- 1956 Hungarian party leader Matyas Rákosi enforces his own policy
- 1956 Queen Juliana opens Rembrandt fairs in Amsterdam
- 1958 An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
- 1959 Launching of the National Liberation Committee of Cte d'Ivoire in Conakry, Guinea.
- 1960 Eileen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turns (for > 30 years)
- 1961 Number one hit on UK music charts - Floyd Cramer - On The Rebound
- 1963 "If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul hits #1
- 1964 David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on the BBC
- 1964 Forty 40 hidden microphones are discovered in the U S embassy in Moscow
- 1964 Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years
- 1965 Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for the Star Trek Captain
- 1967 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Tremeloes - Silence Is Golden
- 1967 Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals "Monkey Law", upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial
- 1969 "Canterbury Tales" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 122 performances
- 1969 Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit
- 1971 Bulgarian constitution goes into effect
- 1971 President Nixon rejects the 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus
- 1971 Vampire rapist Wayne Bodens last victim found
- 1972 "Me & The Chimp" last airs on CBS-TV
- 1972 Visitor posting - Birth of Tyawanna D. Mayes - USA
- 1972 John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded
- 1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany
- 1974 "The Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1
- 1974 Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It later collapses on August 8, 1991.
- 1974 India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
- 1974 Nuclear test: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
- 1974 Number one hit on UK music charts - Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love
- 1974 Willemstad, Curaao Football Club: UNion DEportivo Banda Abou "UNDEBA"(UND)have been founded.
- 1977 A nightclub fire in Cincinnati killed 164
- 1977 Menachem Begin becomes Israel's Prime Minister
- 1978 Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work
- 1980 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
- 1980 Belgium 3rd Government of Martens forms
- 1980 Fernando Belaunde Terry elected President of Peru
- 1980 Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms.
- 1980 In Washington State, a 5.2 quake was felt (V) at Yakima and (IV) in many parts of Washington and Oregon. This earthquake occurred only seconds before the explosion which began the eruption of Mount St. Helens volcano.
- 1980 Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die
- 1982 Unification Church founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion
- 1983 In Ireland, scene of remarkable pirate radio broadcasting during the decade, the Government launched a crackdown, with the leading Dublin pirate Radio Nova being put off the air.
- 1983 Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program
- 1985 "One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head hits #3
- 1985 The first remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa)
- 1986 Chung Kwung Ying does 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups
- 1986 South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia
- 1989 Lisa Strawberry files for divorce from Darryl
- 1990 "Return To Green Acres" TV movie airs
- 1990 In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record - 515.3km/h - superseding the previous record of 406.9km/h set by the German InterCityExperimental train
- 1990 Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant
- 1991 Helen Sharman from Sheffield becomes the first Briton to orbit in Space
- 1991 Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland however it is unrecognised by the international community.
- 1991 Visitor posting - Fae Rain Morales was born to Paula and Leobardo Morales at Ft. Lewis Wa
- 1991 USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station
- 1992 The Archivist of the United States issues a proclamation to officially announce that the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been ratified, despite more than 200 years for completion of the ratification process by the state legislatures.
- 1993 Danish people vote in favor of ratifying the Maastricht Treaty
- 1993 Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola
- 1994 AC Milan wins Europe Cup 1: 4-0 against Barcelona
- 1996 Visitor posting - Dileep Kumar and Girija Menon got married for ever - USA
- 1998 Justice Department and 20 state attorneys general sue Microsoft, charging it illegally thwarted competition to protect and extend its monopoly on software.
- 2006 The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
- 2007 The Society of Paranormal Investigators, Singapore was formed. The first registered society of this category in Singapore.
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