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| 1312 Roman Catholics German King Henry VII crowned | ||
| 1377 French invasion fleet lands at Rye England | ||
| 1428 Jacoba of Bavaria signs cease fire with Philip the Good | ||
| 1529 Emperor Karel V & Pope Clemens VII sign Treaty of Barcelona | ||
| 1534 Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada | ||
| 1540 English ex chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic | ||
| 1613 The original Globe Theater in London burned down during the first performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII. | ||
| 1682 Sofia names herself regent of Russia | ||
| 1694 Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports | ||
| 1755 515 prominant filipinos baptized as Catholic | ||
| 1762 Russian Czar Peter III divorces his wife Catharina II | ||
| 1767 British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America | ||
| 1783 August Alexander Klengel, composer was born | ||
| 1822 Prince Charles Bonaparte marries niece Zena‹de Bonaparte | ||
| 1850 British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse | ||
| 1857 Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British) | ||
| 1858 Great fire in London harbor | ||
| 1858 Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia | ||
| 1863 Battle at Westminster Maryland: Federal assault | ||
| 1863 Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, PN | ||
| 1868 The British news agency the Press Association was founded. | ||
| 1867 Pope Pius IX declares Gorcumse holy martyrs | ||
| 1880 France annexes Otaheite (Tahiti) | ||
| 1881 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud | ||
| 1891 National Forest Service organized | ||
| 1903 British govt protests against abuser in Belgian Congo | ||
| 1916 Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time | ||
| 1929 Mexico & Vatican sign Concord | ||
| 1931 Pope Pius XI encyclical on Non abbiamo bisogno Mussolini | ||
| 1932 USSR & China sign no attack treaty | ||
| 1936 Pope Pius XI encyclical to US bishops "On motion pictures" | ||
| 1939 Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe | ||
| 1943 Pope Pius XII encyclical Mystic Corporis (mystic body of Christ) | ||
| 1943 Germany began to withdraw its U-Boats from the North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe; U.S. forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea. | ||
| 1944 German counter attack at Caen | ||
| 1944 Rommel & von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden | ||
| 1944 Soviet Armys join in Bobroesjk | ||
| 1944 US 7th army corp conquers Cherbourg | ||
| 1945 Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR | ||
| 1946 Black Sabbath-Brits arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorist | ||
| 1946 British mandatory govt of Palestine arrests 100 leaders of Yishnuv | ||
| 1949 South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages | ||
| 1949 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II | ||
| 1952 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany | ||
| 1955 Argentine state of siege ends | ||
| 1956 Federal interstate highway system act signed | ||
| 1956 PM Drees refuses resignation of queen Juliana (Greet Hofmans) | ||
| 1959 Pope John XXIII 1st encyclical "On truth, unity, & peace, in charity" | ||
| 1962 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner | ||
| 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate | ||
| 1966 U.S. planes bombed Hanoi and Haiphong for the first time in the Vietnam war. | ||
| 1967 Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem | ||
| 1967 Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge | ||
| 1967 Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jayne Palmer), the U.S. film actress, was decapitated in a car crash near New Orleans | ||
| 1972 USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km) | ||
| 1972 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was contrary to the constitution | ||
| 1976 Seychelles gains independence from Britain | ||
| 1980 Vigdis Finnbogadotir was elected Iceland's president, Europe's first democratically elected woman Head of State. | ||
| 1981 Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Teheran, 72 killed | ||
| 1981 Hu Yaobang succeeds Hua Guofeng as leader of China PR | ||
| 1995 A department store in Seoul collapsed, killing 502 people in South Korea's worst peacetime disaster. | ||
| 1996 the Bosnian Serb ruling Democratic Party re-elected Radovan Karadzic as leader. | ||