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526 St. Felix IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1109 Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli
1191 Richard Coeur de Lion and Crusaders defeat Saracens in Palestine
1290 Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I
1442 King Alfonso V of Aragon becomes king of Naples
1542 French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupies Flanders
1543 England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th and last wife)
1549 English boer army occupies Norwich
1575 Willem van Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon
1630 New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, it is later known as Ellis Island
1679 Britain's King Charles II ratified Habeas Corpus Act
1689 Orangeman's Day-Battle of Boyne, Protestant victory in Ireland
1691 Antonio Pignatelli elected as Pope Innocentius XII
1700 Gelderland accepts Gregorian calendar: yesterday is June 30, 1700
1704 Stanislaw Leszcynski becomes king of part of Poland
1730 Lorenzo Corsini chosen as Pope Clemens XII
1771 James Cook sails Endeavour back to Downs England
1776 Captain Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean
1785 The first manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands
1801 Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French and Spanish
1812 U.S. forces led by Gen Hull invade Canada, War of 1812
1817 The first flower show held: Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland
1843 Mormon leader Joseph Smith say God endorses polygamy
1850 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States
1859 Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale, Massachusetts
1862 Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
1862 Federal troops occupy Helena, Arkansas
1874 Ontario Agricultural College founded
1878 Fever epidemic in New Orleans begins: 4,500 people will die
1882 The first ocean pier in U.S. completed: Washington, D.C.
1901 Cy Young wins his 300th game
1902 Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
1906 Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France
1909 16th Amendment approved, power to tax incomes
1912 The first foreign feature film exhibited in U.S. - "Queen Elizabeth" - New York City
1914 Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut: pitches for Red Sox
1918 Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed
1920 Lithuania and U.S.S.R. sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent rep
1921 Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs
1928 The first televised tennis match
1930 34th U.S. Golf Open: Robert T "Bobby" Jones wins
1933 Congress passes first minimum wage law: 33¢ per hour
1934 U.S. Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
1943 National Committee Freies Deutschland forms
1943 Russian offensive at Orel
1943 Tank battle at Prochorowka - Russians beat Nazis, about 12,000 people die
1944 Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
1944 U.S. government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle
1948 The first jets to fly across Atlantic: 6 RAF de Havilland Vampires
1949 16th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-7 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
1949 Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 people die
1950 Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death
1954 Major League Baseball Players Association founded
1954 President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system
1955 22nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 in 12 at County Stad, Milw
1957 The first President to fly in helicopter: Dwight Eisenhower
1957 U.S. Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
1959 NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during Yankee-Red Sox game
1960 Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence
1960 Echo I launched: first passive satellite
1960 Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament
1962 The first time 2 manned crafts are in space
1962 Rolling Stones first performance, Marquee Club, London
1964 19th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1966 37th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 10 at Busch Stad, St. Louis
1966 All star MVP: Brooks Robinson for the Baltimore Orioles
1966 U.S. Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia and Denver mints
1967 Blacks in Newark riot: 26 killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested
1967 Greek regime deprives 480 Greeks of their citizenship
1968 Couve de Murville forms government in France
1968 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1969 98th British Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 280 at Royal Lytham
1970 99th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at St. Andrews
1970 Blues-Rock singer Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky
1970 Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway
1971 Juan Corona is indicted for 25 murders
1974 John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights
1975 104th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 279 at Carnoustie
1977 The first free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise
1978 Sun Bank Building opens
1981 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1982 Britain announces it is returning 593 Argentine POWs
1983 Chad government troops re-conquer Abeche
1984 Geraldine Ferraro, New York becomes first woman major-party VP candidate
1985 Doctors discover a cancerous growth in President Reagan's colon
1987 15th du Maurier Golf Classic: Jody Rosenthal
1987 8th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player
1987 The first time in 20 years a delegation from U.S.S.R. lands in Israel
1988 59th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Riverfront Stadium
1988 All star MVP: Terry Steinbach for the Oakland A's
1990 Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party
1992 13th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Larry Laoretti
1992 Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St. Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert
1992 Betsy King wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
1993 7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 people killed
1994 65th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-8 at 3 Rivers Stadium
1994 All star MVP: Fred McGriff (Atlanta Braves)
1994 Nomination hearings for Steven Breyer for Supreme Court justice begins
1996 Michael Jordan signs an NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million
1998 16th Seniors Players Golf Championship:
1998 Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic
2006 Israel invades Lebanon in response to Hezbollah's kidnapping of Israeli soldiers

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