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- 0655 Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
- 1315 Battle of Morgarten the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I of the House of Habsburg.
- 1492 Christopher Columbus notes first recorded reference to tobacco
- 1492 In Spain, 6 Jews and 5 Conversos are accused of using black magic
- 1515 Thomas Cardinal Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
- 1533 Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, Peru.
- 1715 Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to the Netherlands
- 1763 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland
- 1791 The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
- 1806 Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it was later named Pikes Peak).
- 1824 Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland)
- 1854 In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.
- 1864 Sherman burns Atlanta
- 1867 On this day in 1867, the first stock ticker is unveiled in New York City, the ticker was the brainchild of Edward Calahan, who configured a telegraph machine to print stock quotes on streams of paper tape (the same paper tape later used in ticker-tape parades).
- 1869 Free postal delivery formally inaugurated
- 1884 Colonization of Africa organized at international conference in Berlin
- 1889 Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
- 1889 Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed
- 1920 First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
- 1920 Free City of Danzig established under League of Nations protection
- 1920 League of Nations holds first meeting, in Geneva
- 1926 The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
- 1935 Manuel Quezon is inaugurated as the first president of the Philippines.
- 1935 Visitor posting - Muriel Greer born - Canada
- 1939 In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
- 1941 Holocaust: SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and deportation to concentration camps of all homosexuals in Germany, with the exception of certain top Nazi officials.
- 1942 World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
- 1943 Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". (see Porajmos)
- 1944 Government approves sending members of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) to New Guinea to replace men for service in forward areas Members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and the Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS) were already serving in New Guinea
- 1948 Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister of Canada. King had the longest combined time (3 terms, 22 years in total) as Premier in Commonwealth of Nations history.
- 1948 Visitor posting - Arnold's birthday
- 1949 Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
- 1957 US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000 fine
- 1958 Morocco promulgates a press code.
- 1959 Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
- 1965 Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
- 1966 Gemini XII returns to Earth
- 1967 Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km
- 1967 The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
- 1967 Visitor posting - Julie Montgomery Belisle is born - USA
- 1968 Visitor posting - Dennis Patrick Belisle is born - USA
- 1969 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against the Vietnam War
- 1969 Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
- 1969 Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's fast food restaurant in Columbus, Ohio.
- 1969 Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar and indecent language in Tampa, FL
- 1970 The Soviet Lunokhod 1 moon rover lands on the moon.
- 1971 Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
- 1976 Ren Lvesque and the Parti Qubcois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
- 1978 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka
- 1978 A chartered DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
- 1979 A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
- 1979 ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage
- 1979 British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring
- 1980 Number one hit on UK music charts - Blondie - The Tide Is High
- 1980 Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany,
- 1980 Visitor posting - Bryan Goslin was born on this day! - USA
- 1983 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognised only by Turkey
- 1985 A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
- 1985 The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
- 1987 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9 die in crash at Denver
- 1988 In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched on her first and last space flight.
- 1988 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
- 1988 PLO proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence
- 1988 Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
- 1988 The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
- 1990 President Bush signs the Clear Air Act of 1990
- 1990 Producers acknowledge that Milli Vanilli, who won the 1990 "Best New Artist" Grammy Award, did not sing on their album.
- 1991 Visitor posting - Aeriel's Birthday!!!! :) - USA
- 1993 13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Aurko Jyoti Shaw was born to Arnab and Shruti Shaw in Ohio, USA
- 1999 Neopets was launched.
- 2000 A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people
- 2002 Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.
- 2004 New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey leaves office, three months after resigning due to a gay extra-marital affair. State Senator Richard Codey takes over as interim governor.
- 2005 Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
- 2006 The Al Jazeera English news channel is launched.
- 2007 Barry Bonds, the all time home run king in Major League baseball, is indicted on federal charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
- 2009 A group of Cuban dissidents holed up in a house in Havana begin a liquid-only fast.
- 2009 APEC leaders say a deal on global warming will not be possible before next month's United Nations summit in Denmark.
- 2009 Belle de Jour, the best-selling author of The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, identifies herself as Dr. Brooke Magnanti, a specialist in cancer epidemiology at the Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health.
- 2009 Chechen security forces kill up to 20 anti-government fighters southwest of the capital Grozny.
- 2009 Colombia announces it will release four detained members of the Venezuelan National Guard who were arrested on Colombian territory
- 2009 Domenico Raccuglia, considered one of Italy's 30 most dangerous fugitives, is arrested after 15 years on the run.
- 2009 Four people are hospitalised and at least 60 others are injured at Millennium Point in Birmingham during a performance by JLS. The rest of the event is cancelled.
- 2009 Iran's Parliament approves President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's final three ministerial choices.
- 2009 Kosovars go to the polls for the first local elections since declaring independence from Serbia.
- 2009 Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologises for the role of the United Kingdom in sending thousands of children to former colonies in the 20th century.
- 2009 The Metro Gold Line extension opens in East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights after decades of planning.
- 2009 The Nigerian rebel group Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta announces it has begun peace talks with the government.
- 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. President to meet with Burma's military government, calling for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners.
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