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| 1181 Supernova seen in Cassiopia | ||
| 1265 Battle at Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort | ||
| 1347 English troops conquer Ft Calais | ||
| 1351 Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen & English | ||
| 1558 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah) | ||
| 1578 Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portuguese, 10,000 killed | ||
| 1598 London's head office of Hanze closed | ||
| 1636 Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil | ||
| 1666 Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique & St Christopher; thousands die | ||
| 1666 Sea battle between Netherlands & England | ||
| 1693 Dom Perignon invents champagne | ||
| 1695 French garrison of surrenders to Willem III | ||
| 1704 War of Spanish Succession, English & Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar | ||
| 1730 Crown prince Frederik of Prussia escapes to England | ||
| 1753 George Washington becomes a master mason | ||
| 1760 Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria & Russia | ||
| 1777 Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus | ||
| 1789 French National Meeting ending feudal system | ||
| 1790 US Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service | ||
| 1791 Austria & Turkey sign Peace of Sistova | ||
| 1821 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969) | ||
| 1830 Plans for city of Chicago laid out | ||
| 1855 John Bartlett publishes "Familiar Quotations" | ||
| 1862 US govt collects its 1st income tax | ||
| 1864 Land & naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas | ||
| 1870 British Red Cross Society forms | ||
| 1879 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Aeterni Patris | ||
| 1886 Colombia adopts constitution | ||
| 1892 Queen Wilhelmina & Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam-Rhine | ||
| 1903 Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X | ||
| 1914 German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice | ||
| 1914 German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast | ||
| 1914 Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany | ||
| 1914 King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army | ||
| 1914 Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War | ||
| 1914 US declares neutrality in WW I | ||
| 1916 Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the US for $25 million | ||
| 1917 Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests & officers | ||
| 1925 1st Dutch Colijn govt forms | ||
| 1925 US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation | ||
| 1927 Peace Bridge between US & Canada opens | ||
| 1930 Child labor laws estralished in Belgium | ||
| 1936 Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece | ||
| 1941 Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US | ||
| 1942 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz | ||
| 1942 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo | ||
| 1942 German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed | ||
| 1943 British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada | ||
| 1943 Russian units reach suburbs of Orel | ||
| 1943 USAF bombs Germans in Troina | ||
| 1944 Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by Nazis | ||
| 1944 British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy | ||
| 1955 Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters | ||
| 1956 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph) | ||
| 1956 Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands | ||
| 1960 Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH | ||
| 1962 Nelson Mandela captured by South African police | ||