Today In History

1054 Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining
1187 Battle of Hittin (Tiberias): Saladin defeats Reinoud of Chatillon
1301 Battle at Breukelen: Holland Vs Lichtenberg
1415 Angelo Correr becomes Pope Gregory XII
1453 41 Jewish martyrs burned at stake at Breslau
1610 Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russian and Sweden
1636 City of Providence, Rhode Island form
1652 Prince of Conde starts blood bath in Paris
1653 British Barebones Parliament goes into session
1672 States of Holland declares "Eternal Edict" void
1693 Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English Vs Dutch army
1708 Swedish King Karel XII beats Russians
1754 George Washington gives Ft. Necessity to France
1776 Declaration of Independence - U.S. gains independence from Britain
1779 French fleet occupies Grenada
1789 The first U.S. tariff act
1796 The first Independence Day celebration is held
1802 U.S. Military Academy officially opens at West Point, New York
1810 French troops occupy Amsterdam
1817 Construction on Erie Canal begins
1819 William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet
1827 Slavery abolished in NY
1828 Construction begins on B and O (Baltimore-Ohio) first U.S. passenger RR
1829 Cornerstone laid for first U.S. mint (Chestnut and Juniper St, Philadelphia)
1832 "America" first sung publicly in Boston
1836 Wisconsin Territory forms
1845 Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
1845 Texas Congress votes for annexation to U.S.
1861 In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops
1861 Skirmish at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
1862 Battle at Green River Kentucky (Morgan's Ohio Raid)
1862 Battle of Port Royal, South Carolina (Port Royal Ferry)
1862 Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P. Liddell
1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
1863 Failed Confederate assault on Helena Arkansas (640 casualties)
1863 General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg
1863 Skirmish at Smithburg, Tennessee
1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
1864 Battle at Chattahoochee River, Georgia
1865 The first edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published
1868 Battle at Ueno: last Tokugawa armies defeated
1874 Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
1875 White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
1876 The first public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco
1879 Battle at Rorkes Drift: Britain ends attack on Zulus
1881 Booker T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
1882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in San Francisco
1883 Buffalo Bill Cody presents first wild west show, North Platte, Nebr
1884 The first U.S. bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
1884 Statue of Liberty presented to U.S. in Paris
1888 The first organized rodeo competition is held: Prescott, Arizona
1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of first U.S. autos at 6 MPH
1894 Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B. Dole as president
1895 Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
1898 French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire: 560 people die
1898 U.S. flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
1903 Pacific Cable opens: President Teddy Roosevelt sends message
1906 Great Britain, France and Italy grant Independence to Ethiopia
1912 Jack Johnson TKOs Jim Flynn in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1913 37th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: A F Wilding beats McLoughlin (86 63 10-8)
1914 The first U.S. motorcycle race: 300 miles, Dodge City, KS
1918 Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, WA
1919 Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship
1923 Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbon in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1925 44 people die when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses
1925 45th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats J Borotra (63 63 46 86)
1930 43rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats Elizabeth Ryan (62 62)
1931 The first fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium
1933 Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
1936 49th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Hull Jacobs beats H Sperling (62 46 75)
1936 League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy
1940 British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die
1940 German occupiers forbid anti-Nazis speeches
1941 Howard Florey and Norman Heatley meet for first time, 11 days later they successfully recreate penicillin
1941 Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead
1941 Politburo of Yugoslav Communist Party reorganizes
1942 The first American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
1942 U.S. air offensive against Nazi-Germany begins
1944 1,100 U.S. guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy
1944 Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen
1944 The first Japanese kamikaze attack: U.S. fleet near Iwo Jima
1944 Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber
1946 Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die
1946 Philippines gains independence from U.S.
1947 61st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom P Brown (61 63 62)
1950 Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)
1952 66th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats J Drobny (46 62 63 62)
1953 60th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats D Hart (86 75)
1954 West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern
1956 Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia
1958 72nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: A Cooper beats N Fraser (36 63 64 13-11)
1959 66th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Darlene Hard (64 63)
1959 America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
1959 Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
1960 6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
1960 America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
1964 71st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maria Fraser beats M Court (64 79 63)
1964 Beachboy's "I Get Around" reaches #1
1965 20th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Carol Mann
1966 Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos
1966 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Freedom of Information Act
1967 Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
1969 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep and Janis Joplin
1969 76th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Ann Jones beats Billie J King (36 63 62)
1969 Italian Rumor government resigns
1969 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1970 100 people are injured in race rioting in Asbury Park, New Jersey
1970 84th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Newcombe beats K Rosewall (57 63 62 36 61)
1970 Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio
1973 CARICOM - Caribbean Community and Common Market, forms
1975 82nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (60 61)
1976 Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
1976 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Bloomington Golf Classic Bicentennial
1978 Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order
1981 95th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John McEnroe beats B Borg (46 76 76 64)
1982 10th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Sandra Haynie
1982 96th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: J Connors beats J McEnroe (36 63 67 76 64)
1982 Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico
1982 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1987 94th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: M Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (75 63)
1987 Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon," sentenced to life in France
1988 102nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Becker (46 76 64 62)
1988 U.S. Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290
1989 14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide
1990 400 New Kids on the Block fans treated for heat exhaustion in MN
1990 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1992 99th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (62 61)
1992 John Phillips, (Mamas and Papas), undergoes a liver transplant
1992 U.S. actress Bobbie Eakes marries author David Stone
1993 107th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Courier (76 76 36 63)
1993 Brandie Burton wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1993 Dave Winfield hits 442nd HR to move into 19th place
1993 Pilar Fort, crowned 25th Miss Black America
1996 HotMail, a free internet E-mail service begins
1997 U.S. space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars
2004 Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Todd Woodbridge and Jonas Bjorkman beat Julian Knowles and Nenad Zimonjic
2004 Wimbledon Men's Finals, Roger Federer beat Andy Roddick
2004 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Cara Black and Wayne Black beat Todd Woodbridge and Alicia Molik
2004 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Cara Black and Rennae Stubbs beat Ai Sugiyama and Liezel Huber

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