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711 Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad occupy North Spain
1371 Pope Gregory XI names Arnold II of Horne as bishop of Utrecht
1386 Battle at Sempach: Swiss beat duke Leopold III of Austria
1401 Mongol monarch Timur Lenk destroys Baghdad
1517 Gelderse crowd robber murders population of Asperen
1536 French navigator Jacques Cartier returns to Saint-Malo from Canada
1540 England's King Henry VIII 6-mo marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled
1553 Battle at Sievershausen Solingen: van Saksen beats Alcibiades
1572 19 Catholic priests hanged in Gorcum
1595 Johannes Kepler inscribes geometric solid construction of universe
1609 Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemian protestants freedom of religion
1672 Prince Willem III inaugurated as viceroy of Holland/Zealand
1686 Germany, Sweden and Spain signs anti-French League of Augsburg
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies "Elisabeth" battles with HMS Lion
1755 Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh): French troops beat British
1755 General E Braddock mortally wounded during French and Indian War
1766 English premier Rockingham resigns
1776 Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops, New York
1780 Denmark declares neutrality
1795 James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 U.S. national debt
1800 Mt. Vernon Gardens becomes site of first summer theater in U.S.
1815 The first natural gas well in U.S. is discovered
1815 King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France
1816 Argentina declares independence from Spain
1835 St. Etienne-Lyons railway opens in France
1842 Notary Stamp Law passes
1846 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena, San Francisco, for U.S.
1852 Fire destroys 1,100 construction sites in Montreal, Canada – and no one dies
1853 Admiral Perry and U.S. Navy visit Japan
1862 General John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky
1869 Corncob pipe, made from small corn kernels, invented
1876 Black landowner murdered in Hamburg, South Carolina
1877 The first Wimbledon tennis championship is held
1878 An improved corncob pipe patented by Henry Tibbe, Washington, MO
1891 Irene Coit is first woman admitted to Yale University
1893 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performs first successful open heart surgery without anesthesia
1900 Australia accepts its constitution
1904 10th U.S. Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 303 at Glen View Club IL
1908 CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms
1910 Walter Brookins becomes first to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude
1915 Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa
1916 The first cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in U.S. from Germany
1917 British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804
1918 101 killed and 171 injured in worst U.S. train wreck, Nashville, Tennessee
1918 Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal
1922 Johnny Weissmuller swims first 100 m free style under 1 minute
1926 Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander
1926 Coup under General Sinel de Cordes in Portugal
1927 William T. Francis named minister to Liberia
1934 SS-Reichs Fuhrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps
1940 8th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-0 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis
1940 German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia pograms
1940 RAF bombs Germany
1942 Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family and 4 other Jews
1943 5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje
1943 British air raid sinks U-435
1944 In World War II, U.S. troops secure Saipan as Japan fell
1944 World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum and Bailey 2nd performance, 168 people die
1946 13th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 12-0 at Fenway Park, Boston
1947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth and Lt Philip Mountbatten's engagement
1947 Spain votes for Franco monarchy
1951 President Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
1953 The first helicopter passenger service: New York City
1955 Bill Haley and Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops billboards chart
1955 The first black executive on White House staff: E. Frederic Morrow
1955 Strike in Belgium for 5 day work week
1956 Dick Clark's first appearance as host of American Bandstand
1957 24th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-6 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis
1957 Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced
1958 Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain
1959 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Open
1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament
1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 34th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland
1963 All star MVP: Willie Mays for the San Francisco Giants
1963 Crusher Lisowski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1965 94th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 285 at Royal Birkdale
1966 95th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 282 at Muirfield Gullane
1967 13th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1968 39th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 1-0 at Astrodome, Houston
1968 All star MVP: Willie Mays for the San Francisco Giants
1971 Henry Kissinger visits China PR
1972 86th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: S Smith beats I Nastase (46 63 63 46 75)
1972 Kathy Ahern wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1972 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1973 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel
1974 Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election
1976 Uganda asks United Nations to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe
1977 106th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland
1978 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1978 Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Washington D.C. for ERA
1979 Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter
1980 7 die in a 'stampede' to see the Pope in Brazil
1980 Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years
1982 Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster
1982 Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing 153 people
1984 Yvonne Ryding, of Sweden, crowned 33rd Miss Universe
1987 1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime
1987 Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence
1988 Lisa Whelchel weds Steve Cauble
1989 103rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Becker beats Stefan Edberg (60 76 64)
1989 96th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Graf beats M Navratilova (62 67 61)
1989 Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1990 104th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats B Becker (62 62 36 36 64)
1991 62nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at SkyDome, Toronto
1991 All star MVP: Cal Ripken, Jr. for the Baltimore Orioles
1991 South Africa readmitted to Olympics
1992 Kim Basinger gets the 1,959th star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1994 Sonia O'Sullivan runs world record 2k (5:25.36)
1995 109th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats B Becker (67 62 64 62)
1995 Jack Nicklaus wins Golf's British Open, 4th to win all 4 majors
1995 Kathryn Marshall wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1995 U.S. international postage rates rise to 60¢ per ounce
1996 67th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Veterans Stadium, Phila
1996 All star MVP: Mike Piazza, Los Angeles Dodgers
1996 U.S. Senate approves 90 cents raise to the $4.25 minimum wage
1997 Mike Tyson is banned from boxing, for biting Holyfield's ear
2000 Wimbledon Men's Finals, Pete Sampras beat Pat Rafter
2000 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Donald Johnson and Kimberly Po beat Lleyton Hewitt and Kim Clijster
2000 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Julie Halard-Decugis and Ai Sugiyama beat Venus Williams and Serena Williams
2001 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Leos Friedl and Daniela Hantuchova beat Mike Bryan and Liezel Huber
2006 Italy wins the World Cup 5-3 Vs. France

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