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| 1075 Battle at Homburg/Unstrut: German king Henry IV beats Saksen | ||
| 1531 Pope Clemens VII & Fran‡ois I sign secret treaty against Karel V | ||
| 1534 Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River | ||
| 1549 Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England | ||
| 1549 England enforces Act of Supremacy | ||
| 1572 Willem van Oranges army occupies Gelderland | ||
| 1588 Spanish Armada sails from Lisbon to England | ||
| 1628 1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Mass | ||
| 1720 Sweden & Denmark signs 3rd Treaty of Stockholm | ||
| 1732 Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe | ||
| 1742 Battle of Bloody Marsh-Spanish assault on Simons Island, Georgia | ||
| 1752 French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly India | ||
| 1772 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, RI | ||
| 1784 John Carroll appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions | ||
| 1789 Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I | ||
| 1790 1st book copyrighted under constitution, "Philadelphia Spelling Book" | ||
| 1802 US Academy at West Point founded | ||
| 1822 Charles Graham patents false teeth | ||
| 1862 Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp | ||
| 1863 Battle of Brandy Station, VA (Fleetwood, Beverly Ford) | ||
| 1864 Battle of Big Shanty, GA | ||
| 1870 Washington: Pres Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud | ||
| 1890 Opera "Robin Hood" premieres in Chicago | ||
| 1891 Painter Gauguin arrives in Papeete, Tahiti | ||
| 1898 China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years | ||
| 1919 General steel strike in France | ||
| 1919 Red Army captures Ufa | ||
| 1928 Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane | ||
| 1929 Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Cura‡aose hostages free | ||
| 1933 Spanish president Zamora takes power | ||
| 1934 1st Donald Duck cartoon, Wise Little Hen, released | ||
| 1938 Second Chamber agrees to return Jews to nazi-Germany | ||
| 1940 General Charles de Gaulle's 1st meeting with Winston Churchill | ||
| 1940 Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II | ||
| 1941 Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500 | ||
| 1941 Archbishop De Young bans priest cooperation on Rijks radio | ||
| 1942 Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes minister in Gerbrandy govt | ||
| 1942 German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe | ||
| 1944 Russian offensive in Carelia | ||
| 1953 South African premier Malan visits Netherlands | ||
| 1956 Heavy earthquake strikes Afghanistan, 400 killed | ||
| 1960 Typhoon Mary in China killed at least 1,600 | ||
| 1962 Tony Bennett debuts in concert at Carnegie Hall in NYC | ||
| 1963 JFK names Winston Churchill US honorary citizen | ||
| 1967 Israeli troops reach Suez Canal | ||
| 1968 Yugoslav president Tito promises reforms | ||
| 1970 Harry A Blackmun, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice | ||
| 1971 Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan | ||
| 1977 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks | ||
| 1982 General Efrain Rios Montt declares himself president of Guatemala | ||
| 1982 Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley | ||
| 1984 Donald Ducks 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland | ||
| 1985 American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon | ||
| 1985 Bernard Hinault wins Tour de France | ||
| 1985 USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus | ||
| 1993 Japanese crown prince Naruhito weds Masaka Owada | ||
| 1994 5.6 earthquake strikes South-Mexico | ||
| 1994 Angolan plane bombs school in Waku Kungo (89 killed) | ||
| 1997 British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires | ||
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