Today In History

311 St. Militiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1140 Hartbert becomes Bishop of Utrecht
1214 Battle of La Roche-aux-Moines
1214 English King John begins siege around Lille France
1298 Battle on Hasenbuhl (Gollheim) between German Kings Adolf and Albrecht I
1576 Muitende Spanish soldiers conquer Zierik Sea
1600 Battle at Newport: Earl Mauritius van Nassau beats Spanish Army
1644 Battle of Marston Moor: Parliamentary forces defeat royalists
1681 Earl of Shaftesbury arrested for high-treason
1687 King James II disbands English parliament
1776 Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are and of right ought to be Free and Independent States"
1777 Vermont becomes first American colony to abolish slavery
1787 De Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered
1794 2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria
1808 Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser River, BC
1843 An alligator falls from sky during a Charleston South Carolina thunderstorm
1847 Envelope bearing first U.S. 10¢ stamps
1849 Garibaldi in Rome begins hunger strike
1850 Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus
1858 Partial emancipation of Russian serfs
1861 Battle of Hoke's Run, West Virginia
1862 Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges
1863 Battle of Gettysburg (the 2nd day)
1864 General Early and Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington D.C.
1864 Statuary Hall in U.S. Capitol forms
1865 William Booth founds Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation)
1867 The first U.S. elevated railroad begins service, New York City
1881 President Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau, a disappointed office-seeker
1885 Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear
1890 Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act
1894 Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers
1900 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's first airship LZ-1, flies
1901 Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner, Montana
1902 John J McGraw becomes manager of New York Giants (stays for 30 years)
1916 Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism
1916 Russian offensive in Armenia
1917 Riots in East St. Louis, MO
1921 41st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: B Tilden beats B Norton (46 26 61 60 75)
1927 40th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 64)
1928 British parliament accepts female suffrage
1932 52nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Ellsworth Vines beats H Austin (64 62 60)
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt makes first presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech
1934 General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico
1937 57th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Don Budge beats G von Cramm (63 64 62)
1937 Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean
1938 51st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (64 60)
1940 Dutch PM Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds"
1940 Hitler orders the invasion of England
1941 Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)
1943 Lt Charles Hall, becomes first black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane
1944 Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt
1946 Dutch Beel government forms
1946 Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam and Amsterdam
1947 Military coup discovered in France
1948 62nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Falkenburg beats Bromwich (75 06 62 36 75)
1949 56th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: L Brough beats M duPont (10-8 16 10-8)
1951 Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system
1952 Princess Beatrice opens miniature city of Madurodam
1952 Zulu-leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi marries Irene Mzila
1954 68th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: J Drobny beats K Rosewall (13-11 46 62 97)
1955 "Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC
1955 10th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Fay Crocker
1955 62nd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Louise Brough beats B Fleitz (75 86)
1955 Desmond Tutu marries Leah Nomalizo Shinxani
1956 Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel"
1957 The first submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched: Grayback
1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Le pelerinage De Lourdes
1959 "Plan 9 From Outer Space," premieres
1962 Cuba's minister of Foreign affairs Raul Castro arrives in Moscow
1962 Fidel Castro visits Moscow
1964 Grand jury indicts Beckwith in murder of Medger Evers
1964 President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law
1965 79th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Fred Stolle (62 64 64)
1966 73rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Frasier (63 36 61)
1967 22nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Catherine Lacoste
1971 78th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats M Smith (64 61)
1972 27th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
1972 Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m
1972 India and Pakistan sign peace accord
1973 James R. Schlesinger ends term as 9th director of CIA
1973 Nation Black Network begins operation on radio
1976 83rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Chris Evert beats E Goolagong (63 46 86)
1976 Formal reunification of North and South Vietnam
1976 Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
1977 91st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Connors (36 62 61 57 64)
1979 Susan B. Anthony dollar is issued: first U.S. coin to honor a woman
1980 Julie Marie Bryan, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Young Woman of Year
1982 Larry Walters, using lawn chair and 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000'
1983 90th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: M Navratilova beats A Jaeger (60 63)
1985 Andrei Gromyko appointed president of U.S.S.R.
1986 General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile
1986 Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings
1988 95th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Navratilova (57 62 61)
1989 10th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Orville Moody
1989 17th du Maurier Golf Classic: Tammie Green
1990 Imelda Marcos and Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering
1990 Panic in tunnel of Mecca: 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death
1991 Riot at Guns N' Roses concert in St. Louis
1992 Braniff Airlines goes out of business
1993 Boat sinks at Bocaue Philippines, 325 die
1993 F-28 crashes at Sorong Irian Barat, 41 die
1993 Moslem fundamentalists in Sivas Turkey set hotel on fire killing 36 people
1994 101st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: C Martinez beats Navratilova (64 36 63)
1994 37 people die in U.S. Air DC-9 crash in NC
1994 John Wayne Bobbitt and Kristina Elliot arrested for domestic battery
1995 16th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf
1995 Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic

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