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- 0707 John VII ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1009 The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
- 1016 Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon)
- 1016 The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
- 1081 The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
- 1210 Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV .
- 1356 Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland.
- 1386 Opening of the University of Heidelberg
- 1561 Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
- 1648 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
- 1648 First US labor organization forms (Boston Shoemakers)
- 1667 Brooklyn is chartered under the name Brueckelen by the governor of New Netherlands Mathias Nicolls
- 1685 Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes, which has protected French Protestants.
- 1685 Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism
- 1767 Boundary between Md & Pa, the Mason Dixon line, agreed upon
- 1767 Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
- 1775 African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
- 1776 In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"
- 1851 Herman Melville's Moby Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
- 1860 The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
- 1867 US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million)
- 1867 United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
- 1890 John Owen is first man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds
- 1892 First commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)
- 1892 The First long distance phone call in the United States between Chicago and New York.
- 1898 American flag raised in Puerto Rico
- 1908 Belgium annexes Congo Free State
- 1908 Belgium annexes the Congo Free State.
- 1909 Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m
- 1912 Beginning of the first Balkan War
- 1912 Italo-Turkish war ends
- 1912 The First Balkan War begins.
- 1924 University of Illinois halfback Red Grange scores four touchdowns in the first quarter of a game against the University of Michigan Wolverines.
- 1925 The Grand Ole Opry opens in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 1929 Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
- 1940 HMS H.49,sunk off Texel island, Holland in North Sea by depth charges from German anti-submarine trawlers UJ.116 and UJ.118. On patrol off Dutch coast at time of threatened German invasion of Britain
- 1944 Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia.
- 1944 Hitler orders the establishment of "Volkssturm." Boys between fifteen and eighteen and men between fifty and sixty are drafted into service. The Nazis have to mobilize replacements for 500,000 men.
- 1944 Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
- 1944 Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II
- 1945 A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Prez Jimnez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, staged a coup d'ett against then president Isaas Medina Angarita, who was overthrown by the end of the day.
- 1945 The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the USA's plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- 1954 Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US
- 1954 Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
- 1955 Track & Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athlete
- 1955 Visitor posting - shens was born - USA
- 1958 Visitor posting - Just Married: TOM & TYLITHA SETH
- 1960 In Britain, the News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge,
- 1960 The London Evening Star merges with the Evening News
- 1962 Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
- 1962 US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon
- 1963 IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics
- 1967 Soviet Venera 4 becomes the first probe to send data back from Venus
- 1967 The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
- 1967 Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released
- 1968 Bob Beamon sets a world record of 8.90m in the long jump at the Mexico City games. This becomes the longest unbroken track and field record in history, standing for 23 years, and is later named by Sports Illustrated magazine as one of the five greatest sporting moments of the 20th century.
- 1968 Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas
- 1968 The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends two black athletes for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games.
- 1969 Federal govt bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners
- 1969 Number one hit on UK music charts - Bobby Gentry - I'll Never Fall In Love Again
- 1969 Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
- 1971 Visitor posting - David Hoare born London England - United Kingdom
- 1973 Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin
- 1977 German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is executed and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide. The West German government states that it would never again negotiate with terrorists.
- 1986 Number one hit on UK music charts - Nick Berry - Every Loser Wins
- 1987 Visitor posting - Zachary David Alexander Efron was born.
- 1989 East German leader Erich Honecker resigns.
- 1989 US 62nd manned space mission (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit
- 1991 Azerbaijan declares independence from USSR.
- 1991 Visitor posting - The Great Taylor Norris was born - USA
- 1992 Visitor posting - NARENDRAN S/O B RAGAVAN ASPIRINING TO BE A MECHANICAL ENGINEER - India [email protected]
- 1999 Visitor posting - Austin born - USA
- 2003 Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Snchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
- 2005 Release date for Ensemble Studios computer game Age of Empires III
- 2005 Visitor posting - Desiree Ava born to Billie Jo & Mantello. First Grand child for Brenda & Gary & Robert. - USA
- 2007 After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured.
- 2009 A Rwandan doctor working in a French hospital is suspended after a nurse locates an Internet Interpol arrest warrant, accusing him of a 1994 "genocide, war crimes".
- 2009 A boat with 76 migrant workers on board headed for Canada is seized by the Canadian Navy and RCMP off its west coast in the Pacific Ocean.
- 2009 At least 60 Taliban militants are killed in an ongoing offensive in South Waziristan, northwest Pakistan.
- 2009 Eight people are jailed in Hubei, China, for "disrupting public order" after 10,000 people participated in riots following the controversial death of a chef in June.
- 2009 Germany and Israel complain about a Bangkok museum billboard depicting a salute by Adolf Hitler beside the slogan "Hitler is not dead".
- 2009 Hurricane Rick strengthens to a Category 5 storm, becoming the strongest hurricane in a decade in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
- 2009 Iranian state television says Britain was directly involved in the attack and intended it as a distraction from problems it faces in Afghanistan.
- 2009 Iraq accuses neighbouring countries of stealing sections of its national archives, including centuries-old documents.
- 2009 Jenson Button wins the 2009 Formula One World Championship in Interlagos, São Paulo, Brazil, by finishing fifth in the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix.
- 2009 Pishin bombing: Senior commanders of Iran's Revolutionary Guards are among 35 people killed in a suicide bombing in the southeast of the country.
- 2009 Scotland Yard investigates a complaint about an article by Jan Moir in the UK's Daily Mail tabloid concerning her views on the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately.
- 2009 Seven people are killed and 20 injured after gunmen open fire in a bar in Puerto Rico. (
- 2009 The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) assists Indonesian and Malaysian agencies with two distressed boats.
- 2009 The Australian state of Queensland declares a state of emergency after more than 50 wildfires burn out of control.
- 2009 The Icelandic government says it has come to a new agreement with the governments of the Netherlands and the UK over the repaying of $5bn.
- 2009 The Pakistani charge d'affaires is summoned after Iran says it has evidence the attack had been launched from Pakistani soil.
- 2009 Two foreign aid workers Sharon Commins and Hilda Kawuki – one Irish and one Ugandan – working for the GOAL charity captured in Sudan's Darfur region more than three months ago are released.
- 2009 Ukraine commences its first presidential election campaign since the 2004 Orange Revolution.
- 2009 Yemen claims to have killed 18 Shia rebels in fighting in the north of the country.
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