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| 1014 Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies | ||
| 1030 Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim). Olaf II was killed at the battle of Stiklestad attempting to recover his Norwegian throne from the Danes. | ||
| 1179 Lando Sittino proclaimed (anti-)pope Innocent III | ||
| 1560 Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden | ||
| 1563 League of High Nobles routes King Philip II | ||
| 1565 Mary Queen of Scots married her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. | ||
| 1579 Antwerp request union with of Utrecht | ||
| 1579 King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez & princess van Eboli | ||
| 1585 Friese academy opens | ||
| 1588 The Spanish Armada of about 125 ships sent by Philip II to try to invade England was defeated by an English fleet under Lord Howard and Sir Francis Drake. Over the next month what was left of the armada was pursued along the North Sea and out into the Atlantic. | ||
| 1588 Duke Farneses troops ready for invasion of England | ||
| 1590 Gilles Hayne, composer was born | ||
| 1605 Simon Dach, German poet was born | ||
| 1634 Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Curacao | ||
| 1655 Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam | ||
| 1693 Battle at Neerwinden: French beats English/Dutch army | ||
| 1696 French king Louis XIV & Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace | ||
| 1783 Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000 | ||
| 1786 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette | ||
| 1835 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins | ||
| 1844 NY Yacht Club forms | ||
| 1848 Hopes of a nationalist uprising in Ireland were dashed when an insurrection at Tipperary led by William Smith O'Brien failed. | ||
| 1858 1st commercial treaty between US & Japan signed | ||
| 1858 US citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan | ||
| 1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY | ||
| 1900 Umberto I, king of Italy, was assassinated at Monza by anarchist Gaetano Bresci. | ||
| 1907 1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France | ||
| 1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England | ||
| 1913 Albania becomes sovereignty under prince Wilhelm von Wied | ||
| 1914 1st transcontinental phone link made between NYC & SF | ||
| 1914 Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade | ||
| 1914 British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover | ||
| 1914 Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary | ||
| 1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF | ||
| 1920 Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders | ||
| 1921 Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 inn | ||
| 1921 New rules of language assumed (equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium) | ||
| 1923 Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin | ||
| 1923 KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany | ||
| 1929 Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France | ||
| 1930 Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada | ||
| 1930 The airship R100 set out on its first passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada. | ||
| 1936 Bonwit Teller fashion show & monologue from Tobacco Road & comedy) | ||
| 1937 Japanese troops occupies Peking & Tientsin | ||
| 1938 Olympic National Park forms | ||
| 1942 Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd | ||
| 1943 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg | ||
| 1943 Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam | ||
| 1944 Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours | ||
| 1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS | ||
| 1945 Indianapolis is torpedoed & sunk by a Japanese submarine | ||
| 1947 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg Va | ||
| 1948 King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London | ||
| 1949 Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends | ||
| 1949 BBC radio begins broadcasting | ||
| 1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet | ||
| 1953 US bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok | ||
| 1958 Pres Eisenhower signs NASA & Space Act of 1958 | ||
| 1961 Bob Dylan injured in car accident | ||
| 1966 Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup | ||
| 1967 Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134 | ||
| 1967 During the Vietnam War, the U.S. aircraft carrier Forrestal was damaged by fire, killing 130. | ||
| 1968 Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa | ||
| 1968 Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declared that any artificial forms of birth control were prohibited by the Roman Catholic Church. | ||
| 1968 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption | ||
| 1968 Leaders of Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union met to try and resolve their differences over Czech reforms. | ||
| 1973 Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy | ||
| 1974 Episcopal Church ordained female priests | ||
| 1975 A bloodless coup in Nigeria ousted General Yakubu Gowon while he was at an Organization of African Unity summit. | ||
| 1975 Ford became 1st US pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz | ||
| 1979 Nigeria announced the nationalization of British Petroleum's remaining oil interests in the country. | ||
| 1981 Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris | ||
| 1981 Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer | ||
| 1986 Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed | ||
| 1992 Former East German leader Erich Honecker arrived in Berlin to face manslaughter charges for deaths along the Berlin Wall. Honecker had spent eight months in Chile's embassy in Moscow. | ||
| 1993 The Israeli Supreme Court cleared John Demjanjuk of war crimes after hearing evidence that he was known as "Ivan the Terrible" at prison camps. | ||
| 1994 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin | ||
| 1994 India army kills 27 Moslem militants | ||
| 1994 Parliamentary election in Aruba | ||
| 1994 Former Italian prime minister Bettino Craxi was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in jail after being found guilty of fraud. | ||
| 1994 two people, including a doctor wearing a bulletproof vest, were shot and killed outside an abortion clinic by an anti-abortion protester in Florida | ||
| 1996 China carried out a nuclear explosion at its Lop Nor nuclear testing ground measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale | ||
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