Today in History
1 July
Thomas More
Matsuo Basho by Hokusai
General Robert E. Lee
Warship Elisabeth
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| 1097 The Crusaders defeated the Turks at Dorylaeum in the First Crusade |
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| 1200 In China, sunglasses are invented | ||
| 1233 Earl Otto II van Gelre grants Arnhem state justice | ||
| 1252 King Alfonso X "el Sabio" of Castili‰/Leon crowned | ||
| 1253 Battle at Westkapelle-Floris the Guardian beats Gwijde van Dampierre | ||
| 1347 Engagement of Count Louis of Male to Margaretha to daughter of Jan III | ||
| 1390 French & Genuese armada sails out against barbarian pirates | ||
| 1506 Louis II, king of Hungary/Bohemia (1516-26) was born | ||
| 1517 1st burning of Protestants at stake in Netherlands | ||
| 1517 Inquisitor Adrian Boeyens (pope Adrianus VI) becomes cardinal | ||
| 1534 Frederik II, King of Denmark/Norway (1559-88) was born | ||
| 1535 Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason | Thomas More |
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| 1543 England and Scotland signed the Peace of Greenwich, providing for the marriage of Prince Edward Tudor and Mary, Queen of Scots. | ||
| 1569 The Union of Lublin merged Poland and Lithuania. | ||
| 1600 Prince Maurits' army occupies Newport Flanders Netherland | ||
| 1656 1st Quakers (Mary Fisher/Ann Austin) arrives in Boston (arrested) | ||
| 1663 Franz Xaver Murschhauser, composer was born | ||
| 1674 Spain, France & Netherlands form Triple Alliance | ||
| 1689 Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu Japan | ||
| 1690 Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman | ||
| 1690 Battle of Colors: French beats Spanish/Dutch army | ||
| 1690 Catholic King James II in Battle of Boyne in Ireland | ||
| 1745 Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle | ||
| 1747 Battle at Lafeld: France beat English/Dutch army |
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| 1776 1st vote on Declaration of Independence | ||
| 1795 John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of Supreme Court | ||
| 1798 Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt | ||
| 1810 Louis, king of Holland, abdicated after pressure from Napoleon. | ||
| 1820 1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published" | ||
| 1823 United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico | ||
| 1840 Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer was born | ||
| 1847 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5› Franklin & 10› Washington, NYC | ||
| 1850 At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay | ||
| 1859 Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St Louis | ||
| 1862 Emperor Alexander II grants Jews right to publish books | ||
| 1863 General Robert E. Lee launched the Confederate attack beginning the battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War. | ||
| 1863 Slavery abolished in Suriname & Netherlands Antilles | Matsuo Basho by Hokusai |
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| 1867 The Dominion of Canada was established under the British North America Act. | ||
| 1869 Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed | ||
| 1869 US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens | ||
| 1873 Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province | ||
| 1875 Universal Postal Union established | ||
| 1877 1st edition of "Amsterdammer" published | ||
| 1878 Treaty of Berlin divide Africa up for colonization | ||
| 1896 Harbor of Ymuiden opens | ||
| 1896 Wilfrid Laurel sworn in as 1st French speaking premier | ||
| 1897 Bronx acquires Hutton Square | ||
| 1899 Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels | ||
| 1903 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins |
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| 1907 The world's first air force was established with the formation of the Aeronautical Division of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. army. | ||
| 1910 Union of South Africa becomes a dominion | ||
| 1911 German boat Panther nears for Agadir Morocco | ||
| 1913 Serbia & Greece declare war on Bulgaria | ||
| 1915 Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service | ||
| 1915 Australian Survey Corps becomes part of Military Forces | ||
| 1916 After a week of preliminary bombing, British and French forces launched the Somme Offensive. British casualties were nearly 60,000, one-third of them killed, in the worst one-day loss in British warfare. | ||
| 1916 Coca-Cola brings current coke formula to the market | General Robert E. Lee |
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| 1917 Race riots in East St Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed) | ||
| 1917 Reds Fred Toney pitches completes doubleheader victories over Pirates | ||
| 1924 Light Brigade forms | ||
| 1925 Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK | ||
| 1926 Canada restores gold standard | ||
| 1929 US Immigration law of 1924 in effect | ||
| 1930 Great-Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq | ||
| 1931 Ice vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15› | ||
| 1931 Trans African Railway in use (Benguela, Angola-Jadotville, Congo) | ||
| 1932 NY newspaper Evening Standard goes bankrupt | ||
| 1935 General Neth Persbureau (ANP) forms in Amsterdam | ||
| 1937 Spanish bishops support Franco & fascists | ||
| 1937 The world's first telephone emergency service came into operation in Britain. | ||
| 1940 Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees | ||
| 1940 German troops landed on the Channel Island of Jersey. | ||
| 1942 Sevastopol in Crimea fell to German forces after an eight-month siege. | ||
| 1944 2500+ killed in London/SE England by German flying bombs | ||
| 1944 The Bretton Woods Conference began under the auspices of the United Nations to formulate post-war international monetary policy. | ||
| 1944 General Eisenhower visits front in Normandy | ||
| 1944 US headquarter moves to ColombiŠres Normandy | ||
| 1945 1st of the superstars returns from the WW II, Hank Greenberg homers | ||
| 1945 Allies troop land on Balikpapan |
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| 1946 Rajah cedes Sarawak to British crown | ||
| 1946 The U.S. tested its atomic bomb over the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. | ||
| 1947 192m long passenger ship Willem Ruys (Achille Lauro) launched | ||
| 1947 Britain Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office | ||
| 1956 Ibrahim Hashiroe succeeds Said el-Moefti as premier of Jordan | ||
| 1959 Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West-Germany | ||
| 1959 World Refugee Year begins | ||
| 1960 British Somaliland becomes Somalia | ||
| 1960 Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba | ||
| 1960 Ghana became a republic, with Kwame Nkrumah as its first president. | ||
| 1960 British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland united to form the Somali Democratic Republic. | Warship Elisabeth |
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| 1960 No passports needed inside Benelux | ||
| 1960 USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane | ||
| 1961 Haleakala National Park forms in Hawaii | ||
| 1962 Algeria votes for independence | ||
| 1962 The kingdom of Burundi and the republic of Rwanda both became independent. | ||
| 1963 Pres Kennedy arrives in Rome | ||
| 1963 US postal service institutes (Zone Improvement Plan) zip code | ||
| 1965 Kinderstraf trial starts | ||
| 1968 Fortuna Sittard soccer team forms in Sittard | ||
| 1968 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty | ||
| 1968 USSR performs underground nuclear test | ||
| 1969 Charles Philip Arthur George invested as Prince of Wales | ||
| 1971 British & Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands | ||
| 1974 1st Laura Ashley-store in US opens (SF) | ||
| 1974 General Pinochet becomes president of Chile | ||
| 1974 Isabel Peron succeeds husband Juan as pres of Argentina | ||
| 1974 Monmouthshire renamed Gwent & becomes part of Wales | ||
| 1974 Walther Scheel succeeded Gustav Heinemann as president of West Germany. | ||
| 1977 In Argentina, Maria Estela (Isabel) Peron, widow of the late president Juan Peron, was charged with a $1 million charity fraud. | ||
| 1980 "O Canada" was proclaimed Canada's national anthem | ||
| 1981 Prince Willem Alexander opens Willems Bridge in Rotterdam | ||
| 1982 General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina | ||
| 1990 German Democratic Republic accepts Deutsche Mark as its currency | ||
| 1991 East European leaders met in Prague and announced the end of the Warsaw Pact. | ||
| 1992 6.6 earthquake in Big Bear Valley of Los Angeles | ||
| 1992 Ali Kafi becomes president of Algeria | ||
| 1993 Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit | ||
| 1993 New limits on political asylum rights came into effect in Germany, a move aimed at stemming the flow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into the country. | ||
| 1994 Fokker's-28 crashes at Tidjikja, Mauritania (94 killed) | ||
| 1994 Roman Herzog sworn in as German president | ||
| 1996 The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said it was suspending its membership in the PLO and urged other groups to work to cancel the PLO-Israeli peace deals. | ||
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