Today In History

1483 England's King Richard III is crowned
1491 Opening ceremony of Daitokuji's Shinju at subtemple
1495 Battle at Fornovo] French king Charles VIII beats St. League
1560 England/Scotland sign the Treaty of Edinburgh
1573 Pacificatie of Boulogne: new peace treaty with huguenots
1590 English Admiral Francis Drake takes Portuguese Forts at Taag
1609 Majesteitsbrief: Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of religion
1621 Dutch Governor-General John Pieterszoon Coen takes Banda-islands, 15,000 people die
1630 Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf land at Peenemunde
1634 Johan van Walbeecks ships bypass St-Anna Bay, Curacao
1641 Battle at La Marfee Sedan: Earl Soisson beats French government army
1652 Fire on Dutch Dam: Amsterdam's city hall burns
1669 LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore the Ohio River
1673 French troops conquer Maastricht
1685 Battle at Sedgemoor: King James II beats Duke of Monmouth
1699 Pirate Captain William Kidd is captured in Boston
1770 Battle at Cesme: Russian fleet beats Turkish
1775 Congress issues "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms," listing grievances but denying intent to be independent
1776 Declaration of Independence announced on the front page of "Pennsylvania Evening Gazette"
1777 British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
1782 British-French sea battle at Negapatam
1785 Congress resolves U.S. currency named "dollar" and adopts decimal coinage
1787 French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax
1787 Orange troops occupy Area at Duurstede
1798 U.S. law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained, and removed as alien enemies"
1801 Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British
1840 Christian Hebbel's "Judith," premieres in Berlin
1848 Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo
1853 National Black convention meets, Rochester New York
1853 William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel," first novel by black American
1854 The first Republican state convention: Ripon, Wisconsin
1858 Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
1862 Skirmish at Devall's Bluff Arkansas (106 casualties)
1863 Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia
1882 14 Russian Jews of Bilu, arrive in Jaffa Palestine
1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine
1886 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers first malted milk to public
1887 4th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (62 60)
1892 Dr. Jose Rizal forms League Filipina
1892 Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania fire on scabs, killing 7
1893 British King George V marries Princess Victoria of Teck (Queen Mary)
1894 Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike
1903 George Wyman arrives in New York City by motorcycle - 51 days out of SF
1908 Robert Perry's expedition sails from New York City for north pole
1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm opens
1917 T. E. Lawrence captures Port of Agaba from Turkey
1919 British R-34 lands in New York, first airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)
1923 36th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats K McKane (62 62)
1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form
1924 The first photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio: U.S. - England
1928 The first all-talking motion picture shown in New York (Lights of New York)
1931 35th U.S. Golf Open: Billy Burke shoots a 292 at Inverness Club Ohio
1932 First class postage goes back up to 3 cents from 2 cents
1933 The first All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at Comiskey Park, Chicago
1935 48th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats H Jacobs (63 36 75)
1938 6th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1939 German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises
1941 New York Yankees unveil a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield
1942 10th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, New York
1942 Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam
1943 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed
1943 U.S. destroyer William D. Porter [Willie Dee] launched
1944 170 people die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford, Connecticut
1944 French General De Gaulle arrives in Washington, D.C.
1944 U.S. General Patton lands in France
1945 Nicaragua becomes first nation to formally accept United Nations Charter
1945 President Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom
1946 53rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Louise Brough (62 64)
1946 60th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Yvon Petra beats G Brown (62 64 79 57 64)
1949 Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158° F for 2 minutes
1951 65th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Dick Savitt beats Ken McGregor (64 64 64)
1952 Last tram ride in London
1954 Elvis Presley records his first hit: "That's All Right"
1956 70th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ken Rosewall (62 46 75 64)
1956 85th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 286 at Hoylake England
1956 Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award to honor to outstanding pitcher
1957 64th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard (63 62)
1957 Beatle John Lennon first meets Paul McCartney
1957 Harry S. Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri
1958 Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected President of Mexico
1958 Alaska becomes 49th state
1959 5th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1959 Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic
1960 Dr. Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from Los Angeles to New York City
1961 Portuguese ship explodes near Mozambique and kills 300 people
1962 76th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rod Laver beats Martin Mulligan (62 62 61)
1963 70th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: M Smith beats Billie J King (63 64)
1963 77th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: C McKinley beats Fred Stolle (97 61 64)
1963 South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
1964 Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premieres in London
1964 Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares independence from U.K.
1965 Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms
1967 Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade
1968 75th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats J Tegart (97 75)
1968 Sacharov publishes "Manifest of 10,000 words"
1970 California passes first "no fault" divorce law
1971 Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi
1971 White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
1974 88th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats K Rosewall (61 61 64)
1975 Argentine government falls
1975 Susie McAllister wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
1977 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut
1979 86th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (64 64)
1979 IRA-bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp
1980 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1980 France performs nuclear test
1983 54th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-3 at Comiskey Park, Chicago
1983 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
1986 100th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (64 63 75)
1986 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
1987 The first of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
1987 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
1988 Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico
1988 North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 people die
1991 98th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf beats G Sabatini (64 36 86)
1993 John F. Kennedy, Jr., gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan
1995 Lottie Dod, 15, beats Blanch Bingley at Wimbledon
1996 103rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: S Graf beats Aranxta S Vicaro (63, 75)
1997 "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," closes at Royale New York City after 109 performances
1997 111th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras beats C Pioline (64 62 64)
1997 Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Classic
1997 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva beat Nicole Arendt and Manon Bollegraf
2002 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Serena Williams beat her sister Venus Williams
2003 Wimbledon Men's Finals, Roger Federer beat Mark Philippoussis
2003 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Findals, Martina Navratilova and Leander Paes beat Andy Ram and Anastassia Rodionova,
2003 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Kim Clijsters and Ai Sugiyama beat Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suarez
2005 London is declared the host city for the 2012 Summer Olympics

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