almanac



	June 30

	Louis, king of Austria, crowned
	Otto I the Great gives away bishopdom of Utrecht
	St Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
	1294 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
	1371 Arnold II of Horne chosen bishop of Utrecht
	1397 Denmark, Norway & Sweden sign Union of Kalmar under Queen Margaretha
	1520 Spanish conquerors under Cortes take gold from Aztecs
	1520 Montezuma II was murdered as Spanish soldiers fled from a revolt in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan; hundreds of Spaniards drowned in Lake Texcoco when their boat sank.
	1528 Burgundy army occupies Utrecht
	1548 Emperor Charles V orders Catholics to become Lutherans
	1559 Duke of Montgomery wounds king Henri II during tournament
	1596 English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz
	1598 King Philip II moves to Escorial palace
	1607 Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published
	1643 The Battle of Adwalton Moor (also called Atherton Moor) in the English Civil War took place. The Royalists under the Earl of Newcastle defeated the Parliamentarians.
	1648 French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together
	1688 Whig-Lords questions prince Willem III van Orange on Protestantism
	1690 In the War of the Grand Alliance, a combined British and Dutch fleet was defeated by the French at the Battle of Beachy Head.
	1700 Gelderland goes on Gregorian calendar (tomorrow is 12/7/1700)
	1722 Hungarian Parliament condemns emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctions	Stephan Decatur
	1734 Russian army occupies Danzig
	1741 Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms
	1755 Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants
	1815 U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur stopped the continued attacks by Algerian pirates by threatening to bomb Algiers.
	1834 Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
	1859 Watched by 25,000 people, Charles Blondin walked across Niagara Falls from the United States to Canada on a tightrope.
	1861 CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade
	1862 Battle at Nelson's Farm, Virginia
	1862 Battle at Turkey Bridge Virginia: Confederate assault attack
	1862 Gustave Flaubert completes "Salammbo"
	1865 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty
	1871 Guatemala revolts for agrarian reforms
	1876 Serbia declares war on Turkey
	1881 Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia
	1893 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
	1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
	1894 London's Tower Bridge across the River Thames was officially opened.
	1896 W S Hadaway patents electric stove
	1908 A huge explosion rocked eastern Siberia. Believed to be an exploding meteorite, the resulting earth tremor was felt as far away as central Europe.
	1910 Russia absorbs Finland
	1911 Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War
	1913 The Second Balkan War began when Bulgaria attacked Serbian and Greek positions.
	1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa
	1934 Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ordered a violent purge of his own political party, assassinating hundreds of Nazis who he believed had the potential to become political enemies.
	1934 French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit
	1936 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia appeared before the League of Nations to appeal for help following Italy's invasion of Ethiopia and his exile.
	1936 Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" was first published.
	1940 US Fish & Wildlife Service forms
	1940 German troops occupied the Channel Island of Guernsey
	1941 Pro-nazi group declares Ukraine independence
	1949 Dutch troops evacuate Djakarta
	1950 US Gen MacArthur visits front in South Korea/asks for US troops
	1952 The "Guiding Light" television soap opera premiered in the United States.
	1952 Hussein Sirri Pasha forms Egyptian government
	1953 1st Corvette manufactured
	1956 Lenins politics testament (1923) published in Moscow
	1960 US stops sugar import from Cuba
	1960 Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium
	1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
	1962 French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria
	1962 Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters
	1962 Rwanda & Burundi become independent
	1963 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of Roman Church
	1964 Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit
	1964 Last UN troops leave Congo
	1966 The National Organization for Women was founded in Washington, D.C.
	1966 Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa	Pope Benedict XIV
	1971 The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granting the right to vote to all U.S. citizens 18 and older.
	1971 The three crew members of the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz II died on re-entry due to a drop in air pressure. They had just set a space endurance record of 570 hours, 22 minutes.
	1971 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the "Pentagon Papers," documents on American involvement in the Vietnam War, could be published; the Nixon government had tried to suppress them.
	1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse
	1974 Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defected to the west while touring Canada with the Bolshoi Ballet.
	1974 Mrs. Alberta King, mother of the late Martin Luther King, was assassinated during a church service.
	1977 The South East Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO) was formally dissolved after 23 years.
	1978 English prince Michael marries baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz
	1983 The high court in Melbourne ruled against the building of the controversial Gordon-below-Franklin dam in Tasmania.
	1984 Last sixpence minted in Great-Britain (in use since 1551)
	1985 39 American hostages who had been held on a TWA plane for 17 days were released in Beirut.
	1989 Sudan suspends interim constitution following coup
	1989 Sudanese military leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir toppled the civilian administration of Sadeq al-Mahdi.
	1989 Argentinian president Raul Alfonsin presented his letter of resignation. He had already announced his decision to go following poor election results in May.
	1990 East and West Germany merged their economies, with the East adopting the Deutschemark as its currency.
	1992 Total solar eclipse in Uruguay (5m21s)
	1993 The parliament of Azerbaijan elected rebel leader Suret Guseinov as prime minister.
	1996 Bosnian Serb "President" Radovan Karadzic relinquished all power to his deputy Biljana Plavsic, but kept the title of head of state.
	1997 The crested flag of the British Crown Colony was officially lowered in Hong Kong at midnight and replaced by a new flag representing China's sovereignty.