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| 1371 King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned | ||
| 1510 Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany | ||
| 1517 Turks conquer Cairo |
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| 1528 England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V | ||
| 1561 Francis Bacon, England, statesman/essayist (Novum Organum) was born | ||
| 1575 English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis & William Byrd | ||
| 1584 Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar (& parts in 1812) | ||
| 1588 Pope Sixtus V decrees "Immense aeterni" (Reformed curia) | ||
| 1673 Postal service between New York & Boston inaugurated | ||
| 1689 Lord Halifax becomes Speaker of English House of Lords | ||
| 1689 Prince Willem III calls English parliament together | ||
| 1690 Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French | ||
| 1729 Giuseppe Luigi Tibaldi, composer was born | ||
| 1758 Russian troops occupy K”nigsberg, East Prussia | ||
| 1760 Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French | ||
| 1771 Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain | ||
| 1775 Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland | ||
| 1788 Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron, England, romantic poet , was born | ||
| 1813 Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada | ||
| 1816 Lord Byron completes "Parisina" & "Siege of Corinth" | ||
| 1817 English freighter Diana sinks off Malaysia | ||
| 1837 Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands |
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| 1858 Beatrice Potter Webb, England, economist was born | ||
| 1858 Frederick Lugard, British captain/baron (Congo), was born | ||
| 1873 Britains SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness England, 300 die | ||
| 1879 Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa | ||
| 1895 National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati - USA | ||
| 1905 Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops | ||
| 1918 Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet) | ||
| 1924 Baldwin govt resigns in England | ||
| 1925 Albania Republic proclaimed under Pres Achmed Zogu | ||
| 1939 Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University | ||
| 1941 British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians | ||
| 1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain | ||
| 1943 Battle of Anzio: Italy; Allies stopped on beach | ||
| 1944 During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy | ||
| 1945 Heavy US air raid on Okinawa | ||
| 1946 US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency | ||
| 1953 Arthur Miller's play, "The Crucible," opened on Broadway. | ||
| 1955 Norwegian government of Einar Gerhardsen forms | ||
| 1956 30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles | ||
| 1957 Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula | ||
| 1960 Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die |
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| 1960 French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu | ||
| 1964 The world's largest cheese was made in Wisconsin | ||
| 1964 Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (Zambia) | ||
| 1968 Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made | ||
| 1969 Singer-actress Judy Garland died in London, England. | ||
| 1973 US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord | ||
| 1973 The U.S. Supreme Court issued the Roe vs. Wade decision, legalizing abortions. | ||
| 1973 Former U.S. President Lyndon Johnson died in Texas at age 64. | ||
| 1994 Actor Telly Savalas died in Universal City, California | ||
| 1994 5.5 earthquake strikes Sumatra | ||
| 1995 Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed | ||
| 1995 Matriarch Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy died in Massachusetts at age 104. | ||
| 1998 Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty to mailing at least 16 package bombs in a 17-year anti-technology campaign which killed three people and injured 23. | ||