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552 Origin of the Armenian calendar
1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes
1460 War of Roses: Richard of York defeats King Henry VI at Northampton
1520 King Charles V and King Henry VIII signs treaty of Calais
1553 Lady Jane Grey becomes Queen of England
1568 Battle on Eems: Dutch Water garrison beats Spanish
1584 Spanish army leader Richebourg conquerors Liefkenshoek, Belgium
1598 Spanish theater plays "Moros y Los Cristianos" in Rio Grande
1609 Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League
1627 English fleet under George Villiers reach La Rochelle
1629 The first non-Separatist Congregational Church in U.S. founded (Salem, MA)
1645 Battle at Langport Somerset: Cromwell's New Model-army beats Royalists
1652 England declares war on Netherlands
1690 Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet
1690 Neth-French sea battle at Beachy Head (Cornelis Evertsen)
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye
1762 Roubiliacs monument for Handel unveiled at Westminster Abbey
1775 Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
1797 The first U.S. frigate, the "United States," is launched in Phila
1810 Emperor Napoleon's corpse leaves Netherlands for France
1832 President Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US
1847 Urbain J J Leverrier and John Couch Adams, co-discoverers of Neptune meet for first time
1850 VP Fillmore becomes President following Zachary Taylor's death
1861 Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia and says Union troops will not enter that state
1862 U.S. begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad
1866 Indelible pencil patents by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass
1873 French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol
1890 Wyoming becomes 44th state of U.S., first with female suffrage
1913 Romania declares war on Bulgaria
1915 British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa
1917 Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing draft
1918 Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms
1919 Dutch first Chamber approves woman suffrage
1919 President Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate
1920 Tris Speaker is stopped at 11 consecutive hits by Tom Zachary
1923 2-pound hailstones kill 23 people and many cattle in Rostov, Russia
1923 All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy
1924 Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim
1924 Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam
1925 Jury selection took place in John T. Scopes evolution trial
1925 U.S.S.R.'s official news agency TASS forms
1926 30th U.S. Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 293 at Scioto CC in Ohio
1926 Lake Denmark, New Jersey arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage
1929 U.S. issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
1934 The first sitting U.S. president to visit South America: Franklin D. Roosevelt
1938 "Yankee Clipper" completes the first passenger flight over Atlantic
1938 Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours
1940 Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air: 114 days
1940 German planes attack British ships in the Canal
1942 Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish women in Ravensbruck Camp
1943 6th day of battle at Kursk
1943 U.S. and Britain invade Sicily in WW II, Operation Husky
1947 200 people die when train derails and fell into a river in Canton, China
1948 Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army
1949 The first practical rectangular TV tube announced:Toledo, Oh
1950 "Your Hit Parade" premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV
1951 18th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
1951 Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
1953 82nd British Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 282 at Carnoustie Dai Rees
1953 Pravda reports arrest of Beria [affiliate of imperialist]
1956 23rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at Griffith Stadium, Washington D.C.
1956 650,000 U.S. steel workers go on strike
1956 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1958 Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed premier of Cambodia
1958 The first parking meter installed in England
1960 Belgium sends troops to Congo
1960 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Youngstown Kitchens (Trumball Golf Open)
1962 32nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at D.C. Stadium, Washington
1962 All star MVP: Maury Wills (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1962 Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested during demonstration in Georgia
1962 Telstar, first geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1964 Jesus Alou is first Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game
1964 Moise Tsjombe becomes premier of Congo
1965 Rolling Stones score their first #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
1966 U.S. launches Orbiter 1 to the Moon
1967 Bobbie Gentry records "Ode to Billie Joe"
1968 NL announces break into 2 divisions for 1969
1969 Chilean Association of Librarians created
1971 100th British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 278 at Royal Birkdale
1971 Failed attempt on King Hassan II Shirat Morocco, 101 people killed
1972 Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida, McGovern
1972 Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24 people in Chandka Forest India
1974 OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands
1974 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1975 Cher files for divorce from Gregg Allman: 10 days after they married
1975 Gladys Knight and Pips Summer Series premieres on NBC-TV
1976 105th British Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Royal Birkdale
1977 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic
1978 Bloodless military coup in Mauritania, president Moktar flees
1979 Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion
1980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I. Queen
1981 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 Samuel Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" sells for $3,250,000
1985 Coca-Cola Company announces it will resume selling the old formula Coke
1985 French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior
1985 Playboy publishes full frontal nude pictures of Madonna
1988 Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1989 Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61)
1990 61st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-0 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
1990 All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers)
1990 Andrew Dice Clay cries on Arsenio Hall Show
1991 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as first elected president of Russian Rep
1994 Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian weds Debbie Leavitt
1994 Kelly Robbins wins Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic by Owens-Corning
1997 Louise Woodward's trial begins in Massachusetts
1997 RJR Nabisco announces it will replace Joe Camel in new ads
2005 Luxembourg accepts a referendum on the E.U. constitution

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