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| Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire | ||
| 1195 Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia | ||
| 1321 -BC- origin of Era of Menophres | ||
| 1333 The Scots army was defeated by Edward III of England at the Battle of Halidon Hill. | ||
| 1380 Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais |
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| 1425 Duke John VI van Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good | ||
| 1510 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin Prussia | ||
| 1524 Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest | ||
| 1525 Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau | ||
| 1545 King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die | ||
| 1551 Treaty of Karlsburg: arch duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as king of Hungary/Transsylvania | ||
| 1553 Lady Jane Grey was deposed and Mary Tudor was proclaimed Queen of England. | John Martin |
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| 1572 Battle at Saint-Ghislain: Spanish army beats The Genlis' mercenaries | English
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| 1575 Spanish viceroy Gilles of Hierges attacks Oudewater | ||
| 1588 The Spanish Armada was first sighted off the Cornish coast of England. | ||
| 1590 King Philip Ii's secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail | ||
| 1599 Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java | ||
| 1610 Basil Shuisky, Czar of Russia, was deposed after a Swedish army was forced to surrender following a failed bid to rid Russia of its Polish invaders. | ||
| 1639 French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan | ||
| 1674 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer | ||
| 1688 Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo | ||
| 1702 Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Crackow | ||
| 1789 John Martin, English painter was born | ||
| 1816 Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days | ||
| 1821 George IV of England was crowned king; he refused to allow his estranged queen Caroline to attend the coronation. | ||
| 1834 Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter (Bouquet) was born | ||
| 1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension | ||
| 1837 British civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel's "Great Western" steamship was launched from Bristol; on the same day in 1843, his "Great Britain," the first Atlantic liner built of iron, was launched. | ||
| 1843 A new form of female dress, Bloomers, were first introduced by their inventor Amelia Jenks Bloomer. | ||
| 1848 German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg | ||
| 1850 Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die) | ||
| 1860 1st railroad reaches Kansas |
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| 1866 Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights | ||
| 1867 Dutch Red Cross forms | ||
| 1870 France declared war on Prussia, heralding the start of the Franco-Prussian war. | ||
| 1875 Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC | ||
| 1877 The first Wimbledon tennis final took place; it was won by Spencer Gore | ||
| 1880 SF Public Library starts lending books | ||
| 1900 The Paris Metro underground system was opened. | ||
| 1904 Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber | ||
| 1907 The Emperor of Korea, a Japanese protectorate, was forced to abdicate in favor of his son. | ||
| 1908 Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam | Edgar Degas |
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| 1915 Dutch accidents at sea law enforced | Self Portrait |
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| 1918 German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I) | ||
| 1926 2nd French govt of Herriot, forms | ||
| 1928 King Fuad of Egypt grabs power/disbands parliament | ||
| 1940 Hitler orders Great Britain to surrenders | ||
| 1940 Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald | ||
| 1940 Nazi occupiers in Neth forbid anti-nazi films | ||
| 1941 President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee | ||
| 1941 Winston Churchill introduced his "V for Victory" campaign which rapidly spread through Europe. The BBC took the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which matched the dot-dot-dot-dash Morse code for the letter V, and played it before news bulletins. | ||
| 1942 German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam & Hague | ||
| 1943 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II | ||
| 1944 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany | ||
| 1944 Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen | ||
| 1944 Democratic convention opens in Chicago | ||
| 1944 General Bradley flies to England | ||
| 1944 NY archbishop Spellman flies to Europe | ||
| 1948 French govt of Schuman, resigns | ||
| 1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union | ||
| 1950 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris |
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| 1955 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum | ||
| 1955 Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel | ||
| 1960 Italian Govt Tambroni, resigns | ||
| 1969 Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon | ||
| 1974 Soyuz 14 lands | ||
| 1974 Spanish leader General Franco temporarily handed over power to his designated successor, Prince Juan Carlos, because of illness. | ||
| 1979 The Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza had fled the country. | ||
| 1980 The 22nd Olympics opened in Moscow with more than 45 nations boycotting the games in protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. | ||
| 1985 Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. (McAuliffe and six other crew members died when the space shuttle "Challenger" exploded shortly after lift-off.) | Winston Churchill |
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| 1989 112 people were killed when a United Air Lines DC-10 crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 184 other people survived. | ||
| 1989 Poland's National Assembly elected Communist leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski president by a one-vote margin. | ||
| 1992 A car bomb killed Paolo Borsellino, a leading anti-Mafia judge in Palermo, Sicily. | ||
| 1993 Pakistani President Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif agreed to resign to pave the way for October elections. | ||
| 1994 Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon Panama, 21 killed | ||
| 1994 Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president | ||
| 1995 Bosnian Serb forces surrounded Zepa and demanded the surrender of the enclave. | ||
| 1996 Mohammed Ali lit the flame that opened the Olympic Games in Atlanta | ||
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