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| 1083 Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter's Cathedral | ||
| 1098 After 5-month siege in 1st Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch Turkey | ||
| 1357 Peace of Aat | ||
| 1509 Henry VIII married wife No 1, Catherine of Aragon | ||
| 1539 Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain | ||
| 1540 Hernando de Soto crosses Appalachian Mountain, 1st European to do so | ||
| 1665 Duke of York defeats Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft | ||
| 1748 Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service | ||
| 1752 Moscow houses & churchs destroyed by fire | ||
| 1769 Capt. James Cook, a year into his circumnavigation of the world, observed the transit of Venus over the sun's disc, the main purpose of his voyage. | ||
| 1770 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in California | ||
| 1781 Jack Jouett rides to warn Jefferson of British attack | ||
| 1789 Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada) | ||
| 1818 The last of the Maratha Wars between the British and the Maratha Confederacy in India ended, securing British supremacy in India. | ||
| 1837 The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated as King Edward VIII of England, married Wallis Simpson in France. | ||
| 1940 In World War II, the evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk was completed. Over 335,000 British, French and Belgian troops were rescued. | ||
| 1847 Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens | ||
| 1856 Cullen Whipple patents screw machine | ||
| 1860 Comanche, Iowa completely destroyed by 1 of a series of tornadoes | ||
| 1864 Gen Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor | ||
| 1871 Jesse James & his gang robs Obocock Bank (Corydon Iowa), of $15,000 | ||
| 1875 Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st voice transmission | ||
| 1886 24 Christians burn to death in Namgongo Uganda | ||
| 1906 Belgian King Leopold II calls Congo his private possession | ||
| 1913 Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws | ||
| 1919 Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks | ||
| 1921 A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado | ||
| 1925 Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes 1st flight (1st with enclosed cabin) | ||
| 1929 Border dispute between Peru & Chile resolved | ||
| 1929 Chile, Peru & Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area | ||
| 1930 Grover Cleveland Alexander is released by the Phillies | ||
| 1932 Von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament | ||
| 1933 Pope Pius XI encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain" | ||
| 1935 French Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours | ||
| 1937 Duke of Windsor (Edward 8) weds Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France | ||
| 1940 Last British/French troop leave Dunkirk | ||
| 1941 Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol | ||
| 1942 Battle of Midway Island begins | ||
| 1943 United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration forms | ||
| 1944 Gens. Giraud and de Gaulle reached agreement on the constitution of the French Committee of Liberation under their joint presidency. | ||
| 1944 Nazis pull out of Rome | ||
| 1946 Intl Milt Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals | ||
| 1947 British viceroy of India lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan | ||
| 1948 Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore | ||
| 1950 A French expedition reached the top of the Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal for the first time. | ||
| 1952 Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president | ||
| 1956 3rd class travel on British Railways ends | ||
| 1959 1st US Air Force Academy graduation | ||
| 1959 Singapore adopts constitution | ||
| 1961 JFK & Khrushchev meet in Vienna | ||
| 1962 Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130 | ||
| 1963 Pope John XXIII, known for his progressive views, died. | ||
| 1965 Maj. Edward White became the first U.S. astronaut to walk in space when he stepped outside his Gemini 4 spacecraft. | ||
| 1968 Canada announces it will replace silver with nickel in coins | ||
| 1970 1st artificial gene synthesized | ||
| 1973 At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashes | ||
| 1974 Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government | ||
| 1976 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta | ||
| 1977 Belgium govt of Tindemans forms | ||
| 1977 US & Cuba talk about diplomatic relations | ||
| 1979 Ex-president Idi Amin of Uganda flees to Libya | ||
| 1979 World's worst oil spillage occurred in the Gulf of Mexico | ||
| 1980 Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35 | ||
| 1981 Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt | ||
| 1982 Israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov seriously wounded by Palestinians | ||
| 1985 Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques | ||
| 1986 Battles in Beirut; 53 killed | ||
| 1989 Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing | ||
| 1989 Leaking pipe of Asha, USSR causes 2 trains to catch fire; 460 die | ||
| 1991 Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history | ||
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