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| 1295 Pope Boniface VIII enters Rome | ||
| 1298 Duke Albrecht von Habsburg chosen Roman Catholic German King | ||
| 1305 French-Flemish peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge | ||
| 1532 Henry VIII & Fran‡ois I signs secret treaty against emperor Karel V | ||
| 1585 Spanish army under Tassis beats Amerongen Staatse troops | ||
| 1658 Dutch troops occupy last Portugese Fort Jafnapatnam Ceylon | ||
| 1661 Marriage contract for Charles II of England & Catharina of Portugal | ||
| 1683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indiansin Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken" | ||
| 1724 Russia & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople | ||
| 1757 Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal | ||
| 1760 Battle of Landshut Silesia: Austria beats Prussia | ||
| 1776 Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to US Congress | ||
| 1784 1st US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren) | ||
| 1794 Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev | ||
| 1821 Dutch troops conquer Palembang | ||
| 1848 Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris | ||
| 1854 Antwerp-Roosendaal railway goes into use | ||
| 1860 Congress establishes Government Printing Office | ||
| 1860 US Secret Service created | ||
| 1888 Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for president | ||
| 1902 Gioacchino Rossini's unveils monument to Santa-Croce | ||
| 1909 Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections | ||
| 1917 Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000 | ||
| 1919 Nitti governament forms in Italy | ||
| 1925 British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers | ||
| 1935 Anthony Eden offers Mussolini, Somalian harbor | ||
| 1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established | ||
| 1940 RAF bombs Schiphol | ||
| 1941 Germany occupies Telz Lithuana | ||
| 1943 Dutch artsens protest against nazis | ||
| 1943 RAF discovers Werner von Brauns V1/V2-base in Peenemunde | ||
| 1944 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153 | ||
| 1944 Russian offensive in central front sector | ||
| 1944 Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen | ||
| 1951 British diplomats Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean flee to USSR | ||
| 1952 US airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu Korea | ||
| 1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt | ||
| 1958 Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers | ||
| 1958 Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established | ||
| 1960 Japan signs security treaty with the US | ||
| 1969 French government of Couve de Murville resigns | ||
| 1972 Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history | ||
| 1972 Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate | ||
| 1981 "This Was Burlesque" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 28 performances | ||
| 1982 Mary Hart joins Entertainment Tonight | ||
| 1983 Syria throws out PLO leader Arafat | ||
| 1990 Moldavia declares independence | ||
| 1992 Rabin wins Israeli parliamentary election | ||
| 1993 Lindsay Wagner (Bionic Woman) files for divorce from Lawrence Mortorff | ||