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649 St. Martin I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
767 Duke of Nepi names his brother Pope Constantine II
1054 Brightest supernova (Crab Nebula) is first reported
1294 Pietro del Murrone elected as Pope Coelestinus V
1295 Scotland and France sign anti-English covenant
1436 German emperor Sigismund signs peace with Hussieten
1450 Pope Nicolas V names Walraven van Meurs bishop of Munster
1596 English fleet under the earl of Essex plunder Cadiz
1626 Battle at Lenz: Rebel Austrian Boers defeated
1643 The first recorded tornado in U.S.: Essex County, Massachusetts
1687 Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England
1811 Venezuela, first South American country to gain independence from Spain
1814 Americans defeat British and Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario
1830 France invades Algeria, begins a 40 year conquest
1832 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de Janeiro
1834 Provisional government forms in Oregon Country
1841 Thomas Cook opens first travel agency
1843 Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil government in Oregon Country
1859 Capt N. C. Brooks discovers Midway Islands
1861 Battle of Carthage, Missouri - U.S. Gen Sigel attacks pro-secessionist
1863 Battle of Jackson, Mississippi and Battle of Birdsong Ferry, Mississippi
1864 Battle of Smith's Expedition, Mississippi (Tupelo, Harrisburg)
1865 Great Britain delegate's world first maximum speed laws
1865 Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department
1871 Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) and Big Tree, begins
1884 German consul-general Gustav Nachtigal takes possession of Cameroon
1884 U.S. Congress accept 2nd Chinese Exclusion Act
1891 Hail kills 6 horses in Rapid City, SD
1900 Compulsory education law passes Dutch first Chamber
1914 Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia
1919 32nd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: S Lenglen beats Chambers (10-8 46 97)
1922 Uprising of social righteousness in Rio de Janeiro
1922 Women first vote in Dutch elections, Christian parties win
1924 Military revolt in Sao Paulo, Brazil
1929 42nd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (61 62)
1930 50th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W Allison (63 97 64)
1933 German party Catholic Center disbands
1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs National Labor Relations Act
1940 Diplomatic relations broken between Britain and Vichy government in France
1941 German occupiers disband political parties
1942 Ian Fleming (James Bond author) graduates from a training school for spies in Canada
1943 Battle of Gulf of Kula
1943 Battle of Koersk: U.S.S.R. begins
1943 Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biskaye
1943 U.S. invasion fleet of 96 ships sails to Sicily
1945 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1946 Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show
1947 "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" closes at Martin Beck New York City after 108 performances
1947 54th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Margaret Osborne beat Doris Hart (62 64)
1948 Britain's National Health Service Act begins
1950 Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel
1952 59th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (75 63)
1953 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1954 B-52A bomber made its maiden flight
1956 France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria
1957 71st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ashley J Cooper (62 61 62)
1958 65th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Mortimer (86 62)
1959 Ben-Gurion's Israeli government resigns
1959 Indonesia restores constitution
1960 Mongolia adopts constitution
1962 96 people murdered at massacre in Oran, Algeria
1962 Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule
1966 National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting
1967 Congo uprising under Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme
1968 "Manifest of 1000 words" published in Prague
1968 82nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rod Laver beats Tony Roche (63 64 62)
1968 John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce
1969 83rd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rod Laver beats J Newcombe (64 57 64 64)
1969 Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park
1970 25th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1970 Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109 people
1972 Pierre Messmer appointed French premier
1974 81st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Chris Evert beats Olga Morzova (60 64)
1975 89th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats J Connors (61 61 57 64)
1975 Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule
1977 Pakistan's army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power
1978 Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan
1978 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1980 87th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats C Evert (61 76)
1980 94th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats McEnroe (16 75 63 67 86)
1981 9th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Jan Stephenson
1981 Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections
1981 Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of ã from memory
1981 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1983 France invades Algeria
1983 Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death in Roanoke, Virginia
1984 Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials
1985 Premier Mugabe wins Zimbabwe elections
1986 93rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: M Navratilova beats H Mandlikova (76 63)
1986 Nancy Reagan cuts red, white and blue ribbon: reopens Statue of Liberty
1986 Statue of Liberty is reopened after it is refurbished
1987 101st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pat Cash beats Ivan Lendl (76 62 75)
1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1989 Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage and knocks himself out
1989 South-African President Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela
1990 Zina Garrison upsets Steffi Graf in Wimbledon semi-finals
1991 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1992 106th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Agassi beats Ivanisevic (67 64 64 16 64)
1992 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1992 Sixto Duran Ballen elected president of Ecuador
1993 Kurd guerrilla's murder 32 villagers in East Turkey
1994 U.S. changes refugee policy: sends Haitian boat people back
1997 104th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Hingis beats Jana Novotna
1998 53rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship at Blackwolf Run GC, Kohler WI
2003 Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Todd Woodbridge and Jonas Bjorkman beat Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi
200 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Serena Williams beat her sister Venus Williams

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