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1283 Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian/Bull market
Charles Darwin
Marilyn Monroe
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1283 Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian/Bull market |
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| 1459 Pope Pius II opens congress of Mantua | ||
| 1495 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller | |
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| 1526 Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief | ||
| 1562 Emperor Ferdinand & Sultan Suleiman signs treaty | ||
| 1568 Duke van Alva beheads 18 nobles in Brussels | ||
| 1608 Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-govt | ||
| 1641 France & Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant | ||
| 1649 Czar Aleksei throws out English merchants from Moscow | ||
| 1657 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY) | ||
| 1670 English king Charles II & Fr king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty | ||
| 1679 Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scottish | Charles Darwin |
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| 1746 French troops conquer Antwerp | ||
| 1774 Boston Port Bill: British govt orders Port of Boston closed | ||
| 1780 Carl Phillip Gottleib von Clausewitz, Prussian army general, born. Famous for revolutionizing the theory of war, he served with the Russian and Prussian armies in the Napoleonic wars. | ||
| 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to be admitted to the Union. | ||
| 1794 English fleet under Richard Earl Howe defeats French | ||
| 1796 Last of Britain's troops withdraws from US | ||
| 1796 Tennessee became the 16th state to be admitted to the Union. | ||
| 1801 Brigham Young, U.S. Mormon leader, born. He succeeded Joseph Smith as leader of the Mormons and in 1847 led them to their colony in Utah. | ||
| 1803 Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Russian composer, born. Best known for his operas "A Life for the Czar" and "Ruslan and Ludmila." | |
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| 1813 Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship" | ||
| 1836 Charles Darwin returns to Capetown | ||
| 1862 Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines | ||
| 1862 Slavery abolished in all US possessions | ||
| 1868 James Buchanan, U.S. democrat and 15th president of the United States from 1857-1861, died. He was the first bachelor to be elected as president. He was 77. | ||
| 1880 In the United States, the first telephone box for public use went into service. It was installed by the Connecticut Telephone Co. in their office at Yale Bank Building in New Haven | ||
| 1900 British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa | ||
| 1907 Frank Whittle, British pioneering inventor, born. He joined the Royal Air Force and succeeded in developing the first British jet propulsion for aircraft. The jet-propelled Gloster E.28/39 flew on May 15, 1941. | ||
| 1915 1st Zeppelin air raid over England | Marilyn Monroe |
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| 1916 German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun | ||
| 1926 Marilyn Monroe, U.S. movie star, born as Norma Jean Mortenson. Her films included "Some Like it Hot" and "The Misfits." | ||
| 1932 In Germany, with the resignation of Heinrich Bruening on May 30, Franz von Papen became chancellor and formed a government. | ||
| 1933 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago | ||
| 1933 Charlie Chaplin weds Paulette Goddard | ||
| 1936 Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in NY | ||
| 1937 Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier |
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| 1939 Retired German Col-gen Gerd von Runstedt returns to service | ||
| 1940 Coffee & tea rationed in Holland | ||
| 1940 Gen-mjr Bernard Montgomery returns to London | ||
| 1940 Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard | ||
| 1941 In World War II, British forces were withdrawn from Crete with heavy losses. Almost 3,000 Australians were also lost in the evacuation | ||
| 1941 British forces entered Baghdad returning the regent, six year-old King Faisal, to power. | ||
| 1941 Germany bans all Catholic publications | ||
| 1941 Germany occupies Kreta | ||
| 1943 Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die | ||
| 1943 Leslie Howard, British film star and director, was shot down by enemy aircraft over the Bay of Biscay on a flight from Lisbon to Ireland. He had appeared in the films "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and "Gone with the Wind." | ||
| 1944 Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots | Carl Phillip Gottleib von Clausewitz | |
| 1946 Romanian general and statesman Ion Antonescu, dictator of the pro-German government during World War II, was executed. | ||
| 1947 OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands | ||
| 1947 Photosensitive glass developed | ||
| 1948 Israel & Arabs agree to a cease fire | ||
| 1949 British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence | ||
| 1951 1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada) | ||
| 1953 Gordon Richards, who was a champion jockey a record 26 times and rode 4,870 winners, became the first British rider to be knighted. | ||
| 1958 Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election | ||
| 1958 War hero General Charles De Gaulle became prime minister of France at the head of an emergency government during a crisis over the future of French North African colonies. | ||
| 1959 Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day) | ||
| 1963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st premier of Kenya | ||
| 1963 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia | ||
| 1965 Coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236 | ||
| 1966 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights | ||
| 1968 Helen Keller, blind, deaf and mute from birth, died. She had become an academic and in 1938 her journal was published. | ||
| 1972 Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa | ||
| 1972 West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader | ||
| 1972 Iraq nationalized some oilfields belonging to the western-owned Iraq Petroleum Company. | ||
| 1973 British Honduras changed its name to Belize | ||
| 1977 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution | ||
| 1979 The former Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, ending 89 years of white rule. | ||
| 1980 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network | ||
| 1980 ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa | ||
| 1987 Rashid Karami, Lebanon's veteran Sunni Muslim prime minister, was killed when a bomb exploded aboard a helicopter taking him to Beirut from Tripoli. He was 65. | ||
| 1990 U.S. President George Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed a bilateral agreement to stop producing chemical arms and to begin destroying arms stocks by the end of 1992 | ||
| 1991 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years | ||
| 1993 Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army | ||
| 1993 Melchior Ndadaye elected pres of Burundi | ||
| 1994 South Africa rejoined the Commonwealth after an absence of 33 years. | ||
| 1996 Ukraine became a nuclear weapons-free nation with the transfer of the last of its warheads to Russia | ||
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