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Edgar Degas
Dance Class
Pope Innocent III
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| Louis IV, crowned king of France | ||
| 1205 Pope Innocent III fires Adolf I as archbishop of Cologne | ||
| 1269 King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame | ||
| 1286 Rabbenu Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in fortress of Ensisheim | ||
| 1369 Duke Philip the Stout marries Margaretha van Male | ||
| 1464 French King Louis XI forms postal service | ||
| 1502 Emperor Maximilian I & England sign treaty of Antwerp | ||
| 1566 James I Stuart, king of Scotland (James VI)/England was born | ||
| 1572 Garrison under Adrian van Swieten occupy Oudewater | ||
| 1586 English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island NC | ||
| 1588 Spanish Armada heavily destroyed in storm at Coru¤a | ||
| 1595 Wladyslaw IV Vasa, king of Poland (1632-48) was born | ||
| 1621 Battle at Dragetsani: Turkish army beats Greece | ||
| 1623 The French philosopher, physicist and mathematician Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand. | ||
| 1631 Peace of Cherasco: Charles de Gonzaga-Nevers becomes duke of Mantua | ||
| 1669 Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as king | ||
| 1754 Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies & Iroquois indians | ||
| 1770 General Church of New Jerusalem established | ||
| 1778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge | ||
| 1814 Johannes H Weissenbruch, landscape painter was born | ||
| 1825 Gioacchino Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims," premieres | ||
| 1829 Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies) | ||
| 1834 Edgar H G Degas, French painter was born | ||
| 1848 Elizabeth Stanton & Lucretia Mott open 1st women's rights convention | ||
| 1850 Swedish/Norwegian crown prince Charles weds Dutch princess Wilhelmina |
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| 1862 Slavery outlawed in US territories | ||
| 1865 Emancipation of slaves was proclaimed in Texas. | ||
| 1867 Horse racing's Belmont Stakes was run for the first time in New York | ||
| 1881 Muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan | ||
| 1897 Charles Cunningham Boycott, whose name lives on in the English language as a term for a type of economic protest, was born in Norfok, England. | ||
| 1903 Baseball great Lou Gehrig, who hit .341 for his career, was born in New York; he died of a degenerative muscle disease that came to be known as Lou Gehrig's disease. | ||
| 1906 Rodeo showman and pioneer Earl W. Bascom was born in Vernal, Utah. | ||
| 1910 Father's Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Washington | ||
| 1910 1st airship in service "Germany" | ||
| 1910 Abe Fortas, the first U.S. Supreme Court Justice to be forced to resign because of financial scandal, was born in Memphis, Tennessee. | Pope Innocent III |
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| 1917 During World War I, King George V ordered the British Royal Family to dispense with German titles and surnames. The family took the name "Windsor." | ||
| 1921 Census in Great-Britain | ||
| 1932 Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR | ||
| 1933 Austrian government-Dollfuss bans nazi-organizations | ||
| 1934 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created | ||
| 1941 Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani | ||
| 1941 US president Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act | ||
| 1944 French troops free Elba | ||
| 1944 Japanese troops conquer Changsha China | ||
| 1944 The battle of the Philippine Sea took place between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese fleet; the U.S. won a decisive victory. | ||
| 1947 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca | ||
| 1948 Panama & Costa Rica recognize Israel | ||
| 1948 USSR blocks access road to West Berlin | ||
| 1952 The celebrity game show "I've Got a Secret" premiered with Garry Moore as its first host | ||
| 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. | ||
| 1963 2 Russian space missions return to Earth | ||
| 1963 Greek govt of Pipinolis forms | ||
| 1963 Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova returned to Earth after spending nearly three days as the first woman in space. | ||
| 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day Senate filibuster. | ||
| 1972 Hurricane Agnes, kills 118 in NY & Florida | ||
| 1972 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer | ||
| 1976 King Charles XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Dutchess Silvia Sommerlath | ||
| 1977 Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint | ||
| 1978 The popular comic strip "Garfield" first appeared in print. | ||
| 1980 Battle between police & demonstrators in Capetown, 34 killed | ||
| 1981 Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified | ||
| 1981 The European Space Agency's Ariane rocket carried two satellites into orbit from Kourou, French Guiana. | ||
| 1983 Lixian-nian was chosen as China's first president since 1969 | ||
| 1987 ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed | ||
| 1988 Namphy takes control of Haitian govt | ||
| 1991 Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar surrenders to police | ||
| 1993 Nobel Prize-winning author Sir William Golding died in Truro, Cornwall, at the age of 81; his works included "Lord of the Flies" and "Rites of Passage." | ||
| 1994 Michel Rocard resigned as head of the French Socialist party after a no-confidence vote against him by the movement's national council. | ||
| 1994 Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia | ||
| 1995 Chechen rebels and more than 100 human shields rode a convoy of buses back to Chechnya after the end of a hostage drama at a Russian hospital. | ||
| 1997 William Hague became the youngest leader of Britain's Conservative party in nearly 200 years. |