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| 1070 Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France | ||
| 1133 Rome-Innocentius II crowns Lotharius III Roman-German emperor | ||
| 1487 Lord Lovell & John de la Poles army land at Furness Lancashire | ||
| 1632 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Venlo | ||
| 1647 British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner | ||
| 1664 Viceroy Willem Frederik conquerors Dijlerschans | ||
| 1666 Battle at Duinkerk: English vs Dutch fleet | ||
| 1738 George III, English King during American Revolution (1760-1820) was born | ||
| 1741 Prussia goes to the Covenant of Nymphenburg | ||
| 1745 Frederick the Great (Prussia) defeats Austrians & Saxons | ||
| 1756 Quakers leave assembly of Pennsylvania | ||
| 1783 Brothers Etienne and Joseph Montgolfier made the first public demonstration of a hot-air balloon. | ||
| 1789 US constitution goes into effect | ||
| 1792 Capt George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain | ||
| 1798 Giovanni Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt, Italian adventurer, writer, diplomat and spy, died. His name became synonomous with passion after a series of romantic intrigues across Europe. | ||
| 1800 White House completed & President & Mrs John Adams move in | ||
| 1805 Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute | ||
| 1825 Unseasonable hurricane hits NYC | ||
| 1831 The Belgium Congress proclaimed Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg as the first monarch of an independent Belgium. | ||
| 1845 Mexican-US war starts | ||
| 1850 Self deodorizing fertilizer patented in England | ||
| 1859 The French defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Magenta, Italy. | ||
| 1867 Carl Gustav Emil von Mannnerheim, Finnish soldier and statesman, was born. He was responsible for organizing the Mannerheim Line of defense against Russia during World War II and was president of Finland from 1944-1946. | ||
| 1873 1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrives in Suriname | ||
| 1875 Pacific Stock Exchange opens | ||
| 1878 Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes | ||
| 1892 Oil City & Titusville Penn, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die | ||
| 1895 Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations (1925-32) was born | ||
| 1896 Henry Ford took his first car to the roads of Detroit for a trial run. | ||
| 1907 Automatic washer & dryer introduced | ||
| 1910 Sir Christopher Cockerell, British inventor of the hovercraft, was born. | ||
| 1912 Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses | ||
| 1912 Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law | ||
| 1913 British suffragette Emily Davison ran in front of the king's horse Anmer during the Derby horse race; she died June 8. | ||
| 1916 Russian General Brusilov fails on his Eastern Front attack | ||
| 1917 Order of British Empire inaugurated | ||
| 1919 Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill | ||
| 1919 US marines invade Costa Rica | ||
| 1920 Peace of Trianon between Allies & Hungary | ||
| 1932 Edouard Herriot becomes premier of France | ||
| 1937 Leon Blum becomes premier of People's front govt of France | ||
| 1940 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops | ||
| 1940 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made his famous "We shall fight on the beaches ... we shall never surrender" speech to the House of Commons. | ||
| 1940 German forces enter Paris | ||
| 1941 Nazi's forbid Jews access to beach & swimming pools | ||
| 1941 Kaiser Wilhelm II, ninth king of Prussia and third German emperor from 1888-1918, died in exile in the Netherlands. | ||
| 1941 Rep of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z | ||
| 1942 The Battle of Midway, the turning point in the sea war in the Pacific, began. | ||
| 1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island | ||
| 1943 Argentina taken over by Gen Rawson & Col Juan Peron | ||
| 1943 President Ramon Castillo was overthrown by an army coup in Argentina. | ||
| 1944 1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day | ||
| 1944 1st submarine captured & boarded on high seas-U 505 | ||
| 1944 Rome was liberated by allied troops with the U.S. General Mark Clark leading the way into the city. Historic sites had been left intact. | ||
| 1944 French general De Gaulle arrives in London | ||
| 1945 6th Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa | ||
| 1945 US, Russia, England & France agree to split occupied Germany | ||
| 1946 Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed | ||
| 1946 Gen. Juan Peron was inaugurated as president of Argentina | ||
| 1947 House of Reps approves Taft-Hartley act | ||
| 1951 Pirate's Gus Bell hits for cycle helps beat Phillies 12-4 | ||
| 1951 Conductor Serge Koussevitsky died. Born in Russia, he conducted the State Symphony Orchestra in Petrograd before moving to the United States to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra. | ||
| 1953 Pitts trades outfielder Ralph Kiner & Joe Garagiola to Chic | ||
| 1954 France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union | ||
| 1956 Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public | ||
| 1957 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation | ||
| 1963 British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler | ||
| 1964 Maldives adopts constitution | ||
| 1968 Sir Walter Nash, veteran New Zealand politician and prime minister from 1957-60, died. | ||
| 1970 The British protectorate of Tonga became independent within the Commonwealth. | ||
| 1975 Oldest animal fossils in US discovered in NC | ||
| 1977 Apple II, the 1st personal computer, goes on sale | ||
| 1977 Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2 | ||
| 1977 The Soviet Union published its new draft constitution, which was approved by the Supreme Soviet the following October. | ||
| 1979 In South Africa, John Vorster resigned as president after the Erasmus Commission report implicated him in a scandal involving misappropriation of government funds while he was prime minister. | ||
| 1979 Sri Lanka forfeit ICC Trophy game vs Israel for political reasons | ||
| 1982 Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon | ||
| 1989 Beijing cop shoots & wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping | ||
| 1989 Gas from a leaking pipeline exploded, engulfing two packed passenger trains on the Trans-Siberian railway; 575 people were killed and more than 600 injured in the second worst rail disaster ever. | ||
| 1989 Hundreds of student dissidents were killed when the Chinese army moved in to remove them from Tiananmen Square; some estimates put the death toll in the thousands. | ||
| 1991 After a 20-day general strike, the communist government in Albania under Fatos Nano resigned. In 1993, the U.N. Security Council agreed to send armed troops to Bosnia to protect six "safe havens" -- Sarajevo, Tuzla, Zepa, Srebrenica, Gorazde and Bihac. | ||
| 1994 Bangladesh ordered the arrest of feminist writer Taslima Nasrin after she told an Indian newpaper the Koran should be "thoroughly revised." | ||
| 1996 the wife of detained Nigerian presidential claimant Moshood Abiola was shot and killed by unknown gunmen. | ||
| 1996 Europe's Ariane-5 rocket was blown up by ground controllers after it veered off course 40 seconds into its maiden flight. | ||
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