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951 Paris is founded
1497 Vasco da Gama departs for trip to India
1551 Willem of Orange weds Countess Anna van Egmond and Buren
1654 The first Jewish colonist arrive in U.S. (Jacob Barsimson in Manhattan)
1663 King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island
1672 Willem II becomes captain-/admiral-general
1693 New York City authorizes first police uniforms in American colonies
1709 Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes
1758 English and Colonial assault on France at Ticonderoga, New York
1776 Colonel John Nixon gave first public reading of Declaration of Independence
1777 Vermont becomes first state abolishing slavery, adopts male suffrage
1778 George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army
1792 France declares war on Prussia
1796 U.S. State Department issues first American passport
1797 The first U.S. senator, William Blount of Tennessee, expelled by impeachment
1800 Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gives first cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox
1805 American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England
1816 Frost in Waltham, Massachusetts
1833 Russia and Turkey sign defense treaty
1835 Liberty Bell cracks, again
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Saint-Helena
1838 Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed
1849 St. Paul's Place in the Bronx named
1853 Commodore Matthew Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay
1862 Odore R Timby patents the revolving gun turret
1870 Congress authorizes registration of trademarks
1870 Governor Holden of North Carolina declares Casswell County in a state of insurrection
1876 White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina, killing 5 people
1889 John L. Sullivan KOs Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds (last bare-knuckle bout)
1889 Wall Street Journal begins publishing
1891 Future president Harding marries Florence K DeWolfe in Marion, Ohio
1892 American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Massacgysetts
1895 Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South-Africa
1896 William Jennings Bryan "cross of gold" speech at Dem convention
1897 Harbor Hospital formally opens
1900 The first night baseball league game
1905 Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center
1919 President Wilson returns to New York City from Versailles Peace Conference
1922 35th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats M Mallory (62 60)
1923 Harding becomes first sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)
1932 Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average: 41.22
1933 46th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats D Round (64 68 63)
1933 Public Works Administration becomes effective
1939 59th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bobby Riggs beats E Cooke (26 86 36 63 62)
1941 9th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
1941 All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star
1943 4th day of battle at Kursk: Gen Model uses last tank reserve
1943 British air raid sinks U-232
1943 NSB-leader A Mussert meets with Heinrich Himmler
1943 U.S. invasion fleet passes Bizerta, Tunisia
1944 British troops march into Caen
1944 Japanese kamikaze attacks on U.S. lines at Saipan
1947 Demolition begins for United Nations HQ in New York City
1948 500th anniversary Russian Orthodox church celebrated in Moscow
1950 57th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Louise Brough beats M duPont (61 36 61)
1950 General Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, United Nations forces in Korea
1950 Leroy Deans awarded first Order of Purple Heart in Korea
1953 U.S. stops aid to Persia
1954 KMOX (now KMOV) TV channel 4 in Saint Louis, MO (CBS) first broadcast
1956 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1957 CDC incorporates
1957 Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders
1958 25th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Memorial Stadium, Balt
1960 Fidel Castro ends Havana's International League team, Sugar Kings move to NJ
1961 Portuguese steamer "Save" breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die
1962 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kelly Girls Golf Open
1963 U.S. bans all monetary transactions with Cuba
1966 U.S. airline strike: ends Aug 19th
1967 74th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats A Jones (63 64)
1968 Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal
1969 Thor Heyerdahl and reed raft Ra II land in Barbados 57 days from Morocco
1969 U.S. troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam
1972 U.S. sells grain to U.S.S.R. for $750 million
1973 Mary Lou Crocker wins LPGA MARC Equity Golf Classic Crocker
1974 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1975 President Ford announced he'll seek Republican nomination for president
1975 Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated
1977 Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs)
1978 92nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Jimmy Connors (62 62 63)
1978 Alessandro Pertini elected President of Italy
1979 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1979 Voyager 2 takes first ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14)
1980 51st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-2 at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles
1980 All star MVP: Ken Griffey
1981 France performs nuclear test
1981 Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0)
1984 98th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John McEnroe beats J Connors (61 61 62)
1984 Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1985 99th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Boris Becker beats K Curren (63 67 76 64)
1987 Kitty Dukakis, revealed addiction to amphetamines for 26 years
1988 Miami Arena opens
1988 Rockers Jonathan "Chico" and Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking
1988 Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992
1989 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1990 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890)
1992 Thomas Klestil installed as president of Austria
1994 Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try O. J. Simpson
1994 St. Maarten "Godfather" Claude Wathey sentenced to 1 years
1995 102nd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Graf beats Arantxa S Vicario (46 61 75)
1997 68th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Jacobs Field, Cleveland
1997 NATO invites Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic to join
2000 Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde beat Paul Haarhuis and Sandon Stolle
2000 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport
2001 Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Donald Johnson and Jared Palmer beat Jiri Novak and David Rikl
2001 Wimbledon Men's Finals, Goran Ivanisevic beat Pat Rafter
2001 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs beat Kim Clijsters and Ai Sugiyama
2003 Sudan Airways flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan, killing 116 people

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