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| 480 B.C. King Leonidas of Sparta & 1,000 Greeks beaten by Persians at battle of Thermopylae | ||
| 1378 Cardinals declare pope Urbanus VI lawless (anti christian/devil) | ||
| 1559 Willem of Orange becomes viceroy of Holland/Zealand/Utrecht | ||
| 1596 Henry van Cuyk becomes bishop of Roermond | ||
| 1638 Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in Bronx | ||
| 1655 Lord Protector Cromwell divides England into 11 districts | ||
| 1673 Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge recaptures NY | ||
| 1673 Dutch recapture NY from English; regained by English in 1674 | ||
| 1726 Netherlands signs Covenant of Hannover | ||
| 1757 English Ft William Henry, NY, surrenders to French & Indians troops | ||
| 1778 Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits | ||
| 1790 Columbia returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st ship to carry | ||
| 1790 US flag around the world | ||
| 1829 "Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service | ||
| 1830 Louis-Philippe formally accepts crown of France, following abdication of Charles X | ||
| 1832 King Leopold I of Belgium marries Louisa Maria | ||
| 1845 Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter/illustrator was born | ||
| 1848 Austria & Sardinia sign cease fire | ||
| 1849 Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia | ||
| 1859 Elevator patented | ||
| 1902 Edward VII was crowned king of England after the death of Queen Victoria, his mother. | ||
| 1910 Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine | ||
| 1914 German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser | ||
| 1915 British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipolis | ||
| 1930 Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes | ||
| 1936 Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics as the United States took first place in the 400-meter relay. | ||
| 1942 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland | ||
| 1942 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony performed in Leningrad | ||
| 1942 Mahatma Gandhi & 50 others arrested in Bombay | ||
| 1952 General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium | ||
| 1953 Premier Mohammed Abdullah of Kashmir, fired | ||
| 1956 South African women demonstrate against pass laws | ||
| 1960 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida | ||
| 1965 Singapore proclaimed its independence from the Malaysian Federation. | ||
| 1967 Biafran offensive against Nigerian army | ||
| 1969 actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found murdered in Tate's Los Angeles home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his disciples were later convicted of the crime. | ||
| 1970 Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 US exchange students explodes | ||
| 1972 Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle | ||
| 1973 USSR launches Mars 7 | ||
| 1974 Gerald Ford was sworn in as 38th president of the United States after the resignation of Richard Nixon became effective. | ||
| 1988 U.S. President Ronald Reagan nominated Lauro Cavazos to be secretary of education; Cavazos became the first Hispanic to serve in the Cabinet. | ||
| 1990 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia | ||
| 1992 25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain | ||
| 1992 Last day of Test Cricket for David Gower | ||
| 1993 King Albert II of Belgium, crowned | ||
| 1995 Jerry Garcia, a musician with the rock band the Grateful Dead, died of an apparent heart attack. He was 53. | ||
| 1997 Security guard Abner Louima, attacked by NYC police | ||