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| Battle at Aquileja: Emperor Theodosius beats emperor Magnus Maximis | ||
| 1148 Crusaders attack Damascus |
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| 1402 Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur Lenk beats sultan Bajezid I | ||
| 1434 Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon | ||
| 1540 English King Henry VIII marries Catharine Howard, his 5th wife | ||
| 1579 Cardinal Granvelle returns to Madrid | ||
| 1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe | ||
| 1588 Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I | ||
| 1609 Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda | ||
| 1635 Spanish marshal Piccolomini conquerors Schenkenschans | ||
| 1683 Anne Stuart marries prince Georges of Denmark | ||
| 1696 De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance | ||
| 1708 Monarch Amengkurat II [Sunan Mas] of Mataram gives himself up to VOC | ||
| 1717 Prussian king Frederik Willem I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs | ||
| 1741 Capt Bering discovers Mount St Elias, Alaska | ||
| 1742 Prussia & Austria sign peace treaty | ||
| 1778 Charles Stewart, Rear Admiral (Union Navy, died in 1869) was born | ||
| 1808 Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey | ||
| 1821 Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day) | ||
| 1830 Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe | ||
| 1849 Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY | ||
| 1851 Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph | ||
| 1858 Nadar takes 1st airborne photo (in a balloon) | ||
| 1858 William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India | ||
| 1866 Beatrix Potter, England, children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit) was born | ||
| 1866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US | ||
| 1868 14th Amendment ratified, grants citizenship to ex-slaves | ||
| 1886 English Salisbury govt forms | ||
| 1887 Marcel Duchamp, French painter (Nude Descending a Staircase) was born | ||
| 1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut | ||
| 1914 World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia | ||
| 1915 US forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924 | ||
| 1921 Canadians Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolated insulin for the first time. It proved an effective treatment for diabetes. | ||
| 1928 9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam | ||
| 1933 Spain recognizes the USSR | ||
| 1942 Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto | ||
| 1943 Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns | ||
| 1944 Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy | ||
| 1944 US 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France | ||
| 1945 US Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die | ||
| 1947 Iuliu Maniu's Boer party becomes forbidden in Romania | ||
| 1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released | ||
| 1954 Britain and Egypt initialed an agreement to end British occupation of the Suez Canal Zone. | ||
| 1955 Austria regained its sovereignty after 17 years of occupation by foreign troops. | ||
| 1959 Great-Britain starts using postal codes | ||
| 1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean | ||
| 1976 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake | ||
| 1976 After four years of intermittent tension, Britain broke off diplomatic relations with Uganda | ||
| 1976 8.2 & 7.4 earthquake devastate Tangsha, China (240-750,000 die) | ||
| 1977 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska | ||
| 1980 Peru adopts constitution, Fernando BelaŁnde Terry becomes president | ||
| 1980 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi died of cancer while in exile in Egypt. The Shah of Iran from 1941, he lost control of his country and fled in 1979, when revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini succeeded him. | ||
| 1984 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles | ||
| 1986 Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed | ||
| 1988 Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years | ||
| 1988 Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson | ||
| 1990 Alberto Fujimoro installed as president of Peru | ||
| 1990 Belarus declared its independence from the Soviet Union. | ||
| 1990 Blackout hits Chicago | ||
| 1992 Voters in the Seychelles gave Socialist President Albert Rene an overwhelming victory in the island's first multiparty poll in 16 years. | ||
| 1996 During the Olympic Games in Atlanta, a bomb exploded in an entertainment park, killing two and wounding 110 | ||
| 1997 Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion | ||
| 2061 31st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet | ||
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