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1124 Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders
1438 French church, King Charles VII release Pragmatieke Sanctie of Bourges
1456 Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted
1495 King Ferdinand II returns to Naples
1498 Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel
1543 French troops invade Luxembourg
1550 Chocolate is introduced
1585 King Henri III and Duke De Guise sign Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots loose all freedoms
1607 "God Save the King" is first sung
1647 People's uprising against high prices and Spanish rule in Naples
1668 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
1753 English parliament grants Jewish English citizenship
1754 Kings College in New York City opens (renamed Columbia College)
1801 Toussaint L'Ouverture declares Haitian independence
1802 The first comic book, "The Wasp," is published
1807 France, Russia and Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit
1814 Walter Scott's "Waverley" published
1829 Royal Military Chapel forms
1838 Central American federation is dissolved
1846 U.S. annexs California
1850 Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia
1861 Battle of Laurel Hill, Virginia
1862 Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land
1863 The first military draft by U.S.: exemptions cost $100
1863 Orders barring Jews from serving under U.S. Grant are revoked
1874 27th Postmaster General: James W. Marshall of New Jersey takes office
1875 Jesse James robs train in Otterville, Missouri
1878 Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam
1891 Travelers checks get a patent
1898 U.S. annexes Hawaii
1908 Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay
1911 28th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby (60 60)
1911 Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record
1913 British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law
1923 43rd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61)
1923 Cleveland Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning
1928 41st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 63)
1928 Edward Hamm of U.S., sets then long jump record at 25' 11"
1929 Romania and Vatican sign concord
1930 Construction begins on Boulder Dam
1934 Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championship
1936 4th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Braves Field, Boston
1937 5th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash
1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WW II
1939 52nd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Alice Marble beats Kay Stammers (62 60)
1941 Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania
1941 U.S. forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
1942 Germany troop march into Woronezj
1943 Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk
1943 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java
1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-517
1944 Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
1944 Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
1946 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as first American saint
1948 6 female reservists become first women sworn into regular U.S. Navy
1949 "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951
1950 64th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Budge Patty beats Sedgman (61 8-10 62 63)
1950 79th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon
1951 58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (61 60)
1953 35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Mich
1954 T.A.N.U. party forms in Tanzania
1955 The first LPGA Championship won by Beverly Hanson
1956 63rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61)
1956 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in the middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroying 2,000 buildings
1958 President Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood
1959 26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
1960 U.S.S.R. shoots down a U.S. aircraft over Barents sea
1961 75th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64)
1961 James R. Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters
1962 69th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (64 64)
1963 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open
1964 35th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York
1964 All star MVP: John Callison, Philadelphia Phillies
1965 Otis Redding records "Respect"
1967 81st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John Newcombe beats W Bungert (63 61 61)
1968 23rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
1968 Rock group "Yardbirds" disband
1969 Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English lang
1969 Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war criminal
1972 79th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (63 63)
1972 The first female FBI members sworn in: Susan Lynn Roley and Joanne E Pierce
1973 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river, India
1973 80th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats C Evert, 60 75
1973 87th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Jan Kodes beats Alex Metreveli, 61 98 63
1973 All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels
1973 The first all - U.S. women's Wimbledon, Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert
1974 Sue Roberts wins LPGA Niagara Frontier Golf Classic
1975 TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres
1976 Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars
1978 85th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (26 64 75)
1979 93rd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats R Tanner (67 61 36 63 64)
1980 The first solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel
1980 Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
1980 Jineane Ford, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Univ) as 29th Miss USA
1980 Larry Holmes TKOs Scott LeDoux in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court
1984 91st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62)
1984 Frankie Valli marries Randy Clohessy
1985 92nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (46 63 62)
1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
1986 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released
1986 Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices
1986 Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
1986 U.S. actress Deborah Hunter marries actor Michael Tylo
1987 Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women
1987 Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing
1988 Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon
1990 97th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: M Navratilova beats Z Garrison (64 61)
1991 105th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Michael Stich beats B Becker (64 76 64)
1991 Alice Miller wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1993 Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia
1993 Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers
1994 Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lambert
1996 110th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: R Krajicek beats M Washington (63 64 63)
1996 17th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Dave Stockton
1996 Joan Pitcock wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic
1997 Tiger Woods wins golf's Western Open
1998 69th All Star Baseball Game: at Coors Field, Denver
2001 Wimbledon Women's Finals, Venus Williams beat Justine Henin
2002 Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Todd Woodbridge and Jonas Bjorkman beat Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor,
2002 Wimbledon Men's Finals, Lleyton Hewitt beat David Nalbandian
2002 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Mahesh Bhupathi and Elena Likhovtseva beat Kevin Ullyett and Daniela Hantuchova
2002 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Venus Williams and her sister Serena Williams Paola Suarez and Virginia Ruano
2005 London's transit system is bombed by terrorists: 56 deaths, 700 injured

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