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| 1181 Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers | ||
| 1497 John Cabot returns to Bristol from North-America | ||
| 1588 Spanish Armada under Medina Sidonia anchors | ||
| 1601 Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius | ||
| 1623 Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII | ||
| 1625 Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen | ||
| 1638 Nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher was born | ||
| 1661 Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders | ||
| 1665 Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer was born | ||
| 1675 Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut | ||
| 1726 Emperor Karel VI & tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty | ||
| 1774 Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY | ||
| 1787 The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began to debate the articles contained in a draft of the United States Constitution. | ||
| 1806 The Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis the First abdicated. | ||
| 1809 Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England was born | ||
| 1815 US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli | ||
| 1825 Bolivia declared its independence from Peru. | ||
| 1821 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels | ||
| 1825 Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day) | ||
| 1854 U.S. Congress passes Confiscation Act | ||
| 1861 Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt was born | ||
| 1870 Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France | ||
| 1881 Alexander Fleming, England, bacteriologist (penicillin; Nobel 1954) was born | ||
| 1890 Convicted murderer William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in the electric chair as he was put to death at Auburn State Prison in New York. | ||
| 1896 France annexes Madagascar | ||
| 1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia & Serbia | ||
| 1914 French cavalry enter Belgium | ||
| 1914 German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed | ||
| 1914 Serbia declares war against Germany | ||
| 1918 Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France | ||
| 1918 In WW I 2nd battle of the Marne ends | ||
| 1919 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler) | ||
| 1919 Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest | ||
| 1926 Gertrude Ederle of New York became the first American woman to swim the English Channel, in about 14 1/2 hours. | ||
| 1930 Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole | ||
| 1934 US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915 | ||
| 1937 Franco-artillery fire on Madrid | ||
| 1937 US & USSR sign trade treaty | ||
| 1940 Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire | ||
| 1942 Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210 | ||
| 1942 Churchill fires Gen Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant | ||
| 1943 US 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily | ||
| 1944 All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died | ||
| 1944 Anti-German attack at Avranches fails | ||
| 1944 Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins | ||
| 1944 US 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes | ||
| 1945 During World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare. | ||
| 1951 Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria | ||
| 1962 Jamaica became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth. | ||
| 1964 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam | ||
| 1965 Indian troops invade Pakistan | ||
| 1965 President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. | ||
| 1966 US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam | ||
| 1974 Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash | ||
| 1981 Argentina ex-president Isabel Peron freed | ||
| 1981 NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed | ||
| 1983 Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa | ||
| 1986 Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM | ||
| 1986 William J. Schroeder died after living 620 days with the "Jarvik Seven" artificial heart. | ||
| 1988 Iraq's president said his country would agree to a cease-fire with Iran provided the Iranians promised to hold direct talks immediately after the truce took effect. | ||
| 1989 Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia | ||
| 1990 Pres Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan | ||
| 1990 Pres Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan | ||
| 1993 Morihiro Hosokawa was elected the new prime minister of Japan by the country's lower house of Parliament. | ||
| 1993 Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical | ||
| 1994 Algerian Moslem fundamentalists threaten school/Universities | ||
| 1997 Korean Air Flight 801 crashed into a hillside a short distance from Guam International Airport, killing 228 of the 254 aboard the Boeing 747. | ||