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| 1288 Battle of Woeringen: Reinald I vs Jan I | ||
| 1305 Bordeaux's archbishop Bertrand the Got elected Pope Clement V | ||
| 1507 England & Netherlands sign trade agreement | ||
| 1625 Spanish troops under Sp¡nola conquer Breda | ||
| 1632 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Roermond | ||
| 1661 Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge | ||
| 1716 England & Emperor Karel VI signs military treaty | ||
| 1752 Prince Willem van Orange becomes Knight of Garter | ||
| 1783 Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight | ||
| 1794 Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces | ||
| 1806 Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland | ||
| 1827 Turks capture Acropolis & takes Athens during Greek War of Independ | ||
| 1833 Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage | ||
| 1846 Telegraph line opens between Phila & Balt | ||
| 1848 Statue of prince Willem the Silent unveiled | ||
| 1849 Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy | ||
| 1855 Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention | ||
| 1857 Walter Woodbury & James Page open photo studio in Batavia (Djakarta) | ||
| 1861 Federal marshals seize arms & gunpower at Du Pont works DE | ||
| 1863 Battle of Franklin's Crossing, VA (Deep Run) | ||
| 1870 Constantinople in fire; 900 die | ||
| 1873 Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar | ||
| 1900 Lord Roberts' army occupies Pretoria | ||
| 1929 Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour govt in Britain | ||
| 1931 Jules Renkin becomes premier of Belgium | ||
| 1933 Gold standard abolished | ||
| 1939 Ken Follett, spy author was born | ||
| 1940 Battle of France begins in WW II | ||
| 1940 Gen Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme | ||
| 1940 General De Gaulle becomes under minister of Defense | ||
| 1942 British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie | ||
| 1942 USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania | ||
| 1943 German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor | ||
| 1944 Allies march into Rome | ||
| 1944 General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6 | ||
| 1944 King Victor Emmanuel abdicates the throne for his son Umberto | ||
| 1945 USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany | ||
| 1953 Denmark adopts a new constitution | ||
| 1954 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ecclesiae fastos | ||
| 1963 State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested | ||
| 1963 British War Minister John Profumo resigned from government and Parliament after admitting he had lied to the House of Commons about his affair with call girl Christine Keeler | ||
| 1967 the Six Day War between Israel and Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon began. | ||
| 1968 U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles by Palestinian Arab Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy died the next day. | ||
| 1975 British population agrees to European Common Market membership | ||
| 1975 Egypt president Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967) | ||
| 1979 Seychelles adopts constitution | ||
| 1984 Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site (Golden Temple) | ||
| 1988 Russian orthodox church celebrates 1,000th anniversary | ||
| 1990 S African troops plunder Mandela's dwelling | ||
| 1993 Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550 fugitives | ||
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