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- 0608 Saint Boniface IV becomes Pope.
- 0608 St Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 0668 Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
- 0921 Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin.
- 1514 Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York.
- 1556 Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
- 1584 San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
- 1590 Giambattista Catagna is elected as Pope Urban VII.
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara
- 1616 The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
- 1620 Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims
- 1644 Giambattista Pamphilj becomes Pope Innocent X, succeeding Pope Urban VIII.
- 1656 England and France sign a peace treaty.
- 1683 Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by 13 immigrant families.
- 1762 Battle of Signal Hill
- 1789 Dept of Foreign Affairs, renamed the Dept of State
- 1812 The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
- 1820 Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.
- 1821 Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua gain independ
- 1821 Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua jointly declare independence from Spain.
- 1821 Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain.
- 1830 First to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England)
- 1830 The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens (see also deaths, below).
- 1831 The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
- 1835 The HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galpagos Islands.
- 1851 Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1853 First US woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell
- 1862 Stonewall Jackson takes Harpers Ferry
- 1883 The Bombay Natural History Society is founded in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
- 1885 Tthe famous circus elephant "Jumbo" is killed by a GTR freight train, hauled by locomotive no. 788 at St. Thomas. It was struck from behind while being lead along the track to be loaded into his car. Jumbo stood 12' 5" high and weighted 7 1/2 tons.
- 1887 Phila celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution
- 1894 First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
- 1894 Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang
- 1914 Battle of Aisne begins between Germans and French during WW I
- 1916 First tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France
- 1916 Sgt. Donal Forrester Brown, 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at High Wood, Somme France
- 1916 World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
- 1917 First issue of Forbes magazine published.
- 1917 Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
- 1928 Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
- 1928 Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler to take 300 wickets in an English cricket season.
- 1931 British naval force mutinies at Invergordon over pay
- 1931 In Scotland, the two-day Invergordon Mutiny against Royal Navy pay cuts begins.
- 1935 Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.
- 1935 Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship and makes the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany
- 1938 British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden
- 1938 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day)
- 1940 Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe
- 1940 World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoot down large numbers of Luftwaffe.
- 1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania
- 1941 The U.S. Attorney General rules that the Neutrality Act is not violated when U.S. ships carry war materiel to British territories, opening the door for the Lend-Lease Act.
- 1945 A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
- 1946 The Brooklyn Dodgers are beating the Chicago Cubs, 2-0, in the 5th inning when a swarm of gnats causes the game to be postponed.
- 1947 First 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh
- 1947 RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.
- 1947 The U.S. Air Force is separated from the US Army to become a separate branch.
- 1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph
- 1948 The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 1080 km/h.
- 1949 The Lone Ranger premiers on ABC-TV
- 1951 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes closes on Broadway in New York City after 740 performances.
- 1951 Visitor posting - September 15, 1951 Peggy Sue Gann born
- 1952 UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia
- 1952 United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
- 1955 Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is published in Paris by Olympia Press.
- 1957 West Germany holds its third parliamentary election. Konrad Adenauer remains chancellor.
- 1958 48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ
- 1958 A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58.
- 1958 Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ)
- 1959 Paul Orgeron detonated a bomb at Edgar Allan Poe Elementary School that killed 5 people and himself.
- 1959 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit
- 1962 Australia's first entry in America's Cup yacht race (US wins)
- 1962 The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 1963 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham
- 1963 The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing kills four children at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
- 1964 The Sun newspaper launches, replacing the Daily Herald.
- 1965 "Lost in Space" premiers
- 1966 Gemini XI returns to Earth
- 1966 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Small Faces - All Or Nothing
- 1968 Launch of Zond 5, the first lunar fly around with Earth reentry.
- 1968 The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
- 1972 A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes Northern Illinois.
- 1972 An SAS domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked and flown to Malm-Bulltofta Airport.
- 1974 Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
- 1975 Progressive Rock artists Pink Floyd release Wish You Were Here.
- 1975 The French department of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
- 1975 Visitor posting - Angela R Grant is born San Francisco, CA - USA
- 1976 Visitor posting - Big Sexy Tim Ritchie born this day. Pay tribute to him NOW! - USA
- 1976 Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days
- 1978 Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks for the world heavyweight boxing title.
- 1978 Muhammad Ali beats WBA heavyweight champion Leon Spinks
- 1978 Muhammad Ali defeats Leon Spinks for the WBA heavywight championship becoming the first man to win the heavyweight title three times.
- 1979 Visitor posting - Hatake Kakashi is born. - Japan [email protected]
- 1981 The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, DC.
- 1981 Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
- 1982 First issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc
- 1982 Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut
- 1982 The first issue of USA Today is published by Gannett.
- 1983 Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
- 1985 Visitor posting - Beautiful and Smart Brittany Maxey born today in Illinois - USA
- 1985 Visitor posting - The wonder and pretty Catherine G was born!!! - USA
- 1988 Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics
- 1989 Visitor posting - Matthew Tymeson Franclemont is BORN!! - USA
- 1989 The U.S. Congress recognizes Terry Anderson's continued captivity in Beirut.
- 1990 Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000
- 1990 France announce it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf
- 1992 Visitor posting - Adam Pierce was born - USA
- 1993 Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Kristina Dalis Ramos (future teen christian rock sensation) was born
- 1994 Visitor posting - Birth of the Christian Prophet John Ryan 4th - USA
- 1997 Hastings Wise murders four at a lawn mower parts factory in Aiken, South Carolina.
- 1998 Visitor posting - Richard Anthony Zink was born
- 1998 Visitor posting - Melody Parla Born. My Pet is a girl dog named Gia - USA
- 2000 Sydney 2000 Olympic Summer Games open in a lavish Opening Ceremony.
- 2001 Alex Zanardi, driving in a CART race is injured in Germany, resulting in both legs being amputated below the knee.
- 2004 NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced a lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
- 2006 UPN ceased operations after eleven and a half years. The CW Television Network launched 3 days later.
- 2007 Over 3000 Taiwanese Americans and their supporters rallied in front of UN in New York City to demonstrate the dedication that UN should accept Taiwan. At the same time, over 300,000 Taiwanese people rally in Taiwan to make the same plea.
- 2008 Investors concerns turn to American International Group Inc. (AIG) the worlds largest insurance company, its shares plunge and are downgraded by the investment community
- 2008 Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy the largest ever in the U.S.
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