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1244 Chwarizneense Turken defeats Jerusalem
1302 Battle of Kortrijk Belgium (France Vs Flanders)
1302 Guldensporen battle of Belgium
1347 Bohemian heir to the throne elected German anti-King Charles IV
1376 English "Good Parliament" meets
1525 Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague
1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
1588 French King Henri III accept demands of Catholic League
1635 Armies of Savoye/Mantua/Parma occupy Milan
1673 Netherlands and Denmark signs defense treaty
1690 Battle of Drogheda Boyne (Willem III (Neth-Engl) beat Jacobus II (Ire)
1708 Battle at Oudenaarde: Great Alliance beats France
1740 Czarina Anne of Little Russia, expels Jews
1740 Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne
1781 Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of US
1789 U.S. Marine Corps created by an act of Congress
1792 Prussia army moves into French territory
1801 French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his first comet
1812 U.S. invades Canada (Detroit frontier)
1818 Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born," "Lines Written in the Highlands," and "Gadfly"
1859 Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published
1861 Battle of Laurel Mountain Virginia - Gen Morris forces retreat of rebels
1861 Battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia - Rosencrans forces rebels to surrender
1864 Confederate forces led by General J. Early begin invasion of Washington D.C.
1882 British fleet bombs Alexandria
1888 Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after a 24 hour rainfall
1889 Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city
1892 U.S. Patent Office says J. W. Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp
1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere show film for scientists
1897 Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole
1902 British premier Lord Salisbury resigns
1905 Niagara Movement founded by W. E. B. Dubois
1914 Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleveland 4-3
1916 Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act
1916 The first federal grant-in-aid for state roads enacted
1919 Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day and No Sunday work
1921 Mongolia gains independence from China
1923 Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M
1924 Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi
1925 Queen Wilhelmina names H Colijn head of government
1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt became first President to travel through Panama Canal
1936 Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx and Queens opens
1939 7th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium
1940 British and German dogfight above Lyme Bay
1941 German troops attack Dnjepr
1943 7th day of battle at Kursk
1943 Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armour division in Sicily
1943 U.S. 45th Division occupies airport Comiso, Sicily
1943 U.S. 82nd Airborne division shot at, by "friendly fire" in Sicily
1944 12th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt says he would run for a 4th term
1946 Kingman Douglass, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1948 The first air bombing of Jerusalem
1950 17th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 in 14 at Comiskey Park
1952 General Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate
1954 The first White Citizen's Council organizes in Indianola, MS
1955 Congress authorizes all U.S. currency to say "In God We Trust"
1955 New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado with 300 cadets
1960 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC
1960 Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
1961 30th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Pk, SF
1961 Gene Kiniski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1962 Brothers Hank and Tommie Aaron homer in same inning
1962 Cosmonaut Micolaev sets record for longest space flight - 4 days
1962 The first transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
1962 Fred Baldasare is first to swim English Channel underwater
1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 South-African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested
1965 Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Midwest Golf Open
1967 38th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 15 at Anaheim Stadium, CA
1967 All star MVP: Tony Perez (Cin Reds)
1967 Kenny Rogers forms first Edition
1971 Chilean parliament nationalizes U.S. copper mines
1971 Jane Blalock wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1973 Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris: 122 people killed
1974 House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
1975 Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC
1976 31st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner
1976 In pre-game promo at Atlanta County Stadium, 34 couples wed at home plate followed by Championship Wrestling "Headlocks and Wedlocks"
1977 Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King, Jr.
1978 49th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at San Diego Stadium
1978 All star MVP: Steve Garvey, Los Angeles Dodgers
1978 Auto with liquid gas crashes and explodes in Spain: 160 people killed
1979 U.S. Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia and disintegrates
1980 American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran
1981 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1981 Neva Rockefeller is first woman ordered to pay her husband alimony
1982 3rd U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Miller Barber
1982 Hollis Stacy wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
1982 Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid
1983 Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, of NZ, crowned 32nd Miss Universe
1984 55th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at Candlestick Park, San Francisco
1984 All star MVP: Gary Carter
1984 England's Music Box begins satellite transmission to Europe
1984 Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989
1984 Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana
1988 Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor
1989 60th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Anaheim Stadium
1989 President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game
1990 New York City police arrest "Dartman" (he stabbed over 50 women with darts)
1991 Calumet Farm, home to 8 Kentucky Derby winners, files bankruptcy
1991 Nigerian DC-8 crashes near Saudi-Arabia, 261 people die
1991 Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii
1992 President candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people"
1993 14th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus
1993 Nancy Lopez wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1995 66th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 at Ballpark at Arlington, Texas
1995 All star MVP: Jeff Conine
1999 20th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: at Des Moines GC, W Des Moines, Iowa

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