Today In History

323 Battle at Adrianopolis: Flavius Julius Crispus' beats Emperor Licinius
683 St. Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
987 Hugo Capet crowned King of France
1090 Battle at Hagenoorde: German Emperor beats Earl Egbert II
1187 Crusaders enter Tiberias
1428 Treaty of Delft-between Jacoba of Bayern and Philip the Good
1468 Duke Charles the Stout marries Princess Margaretha of York
1608 Samuel de Champlain founded city of Quebec
1630 Emperor Ferdinand II opens German Parliament
1661 Portugal gives Tanger and Bombay to English King Charles II
1720 Sweden and Denmark sign peace treaty
1754 George Washington surrenders to French
1775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts
1778 British forces massacre 360 men, women and children in Wyoming, PA
1778 Prussia declares war on Austria
1806 Michael Keens exhibits first cultivated strawberry
1814 Americans capture Fort Erie Canada
1816 French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas
1819 The first savings bank in U.S. (Bank of Savings in New York City) opens its doors
1839 The first state normal school in U.S. opens, Lexington, Massachusetts, with 3 students
1841 John Couch Adams determines position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus
1848 Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands)
1852 Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, California)
1853 Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan
1861 Colonel Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general
1861 Martinsburg, Virginia - Confederate forces pull out before U.S. advance
1861 Pony Express arrives in San Francisco with overland letters from New York
1863 Battle of Gettysburg Pennsylvania ends: major victory for North
1864 Harpers Ferry, West Virginia - Federals evacuate in face of Early's advance
1871 Jesse James robs bank in Corydon, Iowa ($45,000)
1876 Montenegro declares war on Turkey
1883 SS Daphne sinks on Clyde River Scotland; 195 people die
1884 Dow Jones published its first stock averages
1890 Idaho admitted as 43rd U.S. state
1890 King Leopold II gives Congo to Belgium
1898 American troops captured deserted Wake Island
1898 Joshua Slocum completes first solo circumnavigation of the globe
1898 U.S. Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba
1905 Marvin Hart KOs Jack Hart in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1907 Papal decree forbids modernization of theology
1916 The first of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near New Jersey shore
1917 Spontaneous demonstration at Tauride-palace Petrograd
1920 40th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Patterson (26 63 62 64)
1920 Java Technical School Bandung opens
1920 Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England
1923 Harbor strike in Hull/Grimsby/Cardiff/Bristol over to London
1925 38th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Joan Fry (62 60)
1927 47th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: H Cochet beats Borotra (46 46 63 64 75)
1928 The first color TV broadcast in London (John Logic Baird)
1929 Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
1930 Veterans Administration created
1931 51st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Sid Wood, Jr. beats F X Shields (walkover)
1931 Max Schmeling TKOs Young Stribling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1932 John McGraw retires from baseball
1934 FDIC pays off first insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria, Illinois
1936 Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge U Vs. MCC
1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-KPH rocket plane to Hitler
1939 Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech
1940 ARP-leader/ex-premier Colijn argues cooperation with Germany
1940 British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa
1940 German occupiers forbids using Dutch royal names
1942 Germany troop march into Sebastopol
1942 Hitler visits Field Marshal Von Bocks headquarter/d into/d Ukraine
1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-628
1944 Oriole Park burns down in Baltimore
1947 A record 252,288 people pass through Grand Central Station, New York City
1947 Cleveland Indians purchase Larry Dolby, the first black in AL
1947 Soviet Union doesn't partake in Marshall Plan
1948 55th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Louise Brough beats Doris Hart (63 86)
1948 Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death
1950 The first time U.S. and North Korean forces clash in Korean War
1951 33rd PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa
1952 Puerto Rico's constitution approved by U.S. Congress
1953 67th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Vic Seixas beats Kurt Nielsen (97 63 64)
1954 "Wonderful Town" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 559 performances
1954 61st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (62 75)
1954 9th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
1954 Food rationing ends in Britain
1958 "Andy Williams Show" premieres on ABC (later on CBS and NBC)
1959 73rd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Alex Olmedo beats Rod Laver (64 63 64)
1959 88th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 284 at Muirfield Gullane
1960 Vernon Presley (father of Elvis) weds Dee Alliot
1962 Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5)
1964 78th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Stolle (64 12-10 46 63)
1965 72nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats M Fraiser (64 75)
1965 U.S.S.R. and Persia sign dam building and economic aid pact
1966 21st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Spuzich
1966 Race riots in Omaha, Nebraska
1969 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island
1970 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival
1970 77th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats King (14-12 11-9)
1970 British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 people killed
1971 85th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: J Newcombe beats S Smith (63 57 26 64 64)
1973 Brothers Jim and Gaylord Perry face each other for only time, Tigers beat Indians 5-4, as Gaylord loses
1973 General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA
1974 Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1976 90th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Ilse Nastase (64 62 97)
1976 Adolfo Suarez becomes premier of Spain
1976 After 12 years, Brian Wilson performs with the Beach Boys
1976 Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew and passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers
1977 5th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Judy Rankin
1978 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1978 Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand New York radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words"
1980 The first U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Roberto deVicenzo
1981 88th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Mandlikova (62 62)
1982 89th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (61 36 62)
1983 11th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Hollis Stacy
1983 97th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John McEnroe beats Chris Lewis (62 62 62)
1983 Calvin Smith of U.S. becomes fastest man alive: 9.93 seconds for the 100m
1984 Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
1985 CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover
1986 Kuwait's National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) dissolves
1986 President Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty
1987 2 men became first hot-air balloon travelers to cross the Atlantic
1988 16th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sally Little
1988 U.S. Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290 people
1989 Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions
1989 The movie "Batman," sets record of quickest $100 million: 10 days
1990 Members of 2 Live Crew formally charged with obscenity in Florida
1991 Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7.45 karat diamond ring
1992 Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy marries Victoria Reggie (38)
1993 100th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats J Novotna (76 16 64)
1994 108th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: P Sampras beats G Ivanisevic (76 76 60)
1994 15th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Simon Hobday
1994 30 people die in 3 fatal auto accidents in Texas
1994 Tammie Green wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1997 Mississippi becomes first state to settle the tobacco suit
200 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Maria Sharapova beat Serena Williams

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