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1420 Battle at Vitkov Zizka's hill: Taboriets beat Bohemia
1520 Battle of Otumba Mexico: Hernan Cortes and Tlascala's Vs Aztecs
1535 Emperor Charles V conquerors Tunis
1544 English troops attack The Canal
1581 English Jesuit Edmund Campion arrested
1682 Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London
1714 Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet
1771 Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
1789 Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille
1798 The first direct federal tax on states: on dwellings, land and slaves
1798 Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous and malicious" writing against U.S. government
1823 Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives
1832 Opium exempted from federal tariff duty
1845 Fire in New York City destroys 1,000 homes and kills many
1845 The first postmasters' provisional stamps issued, New York City
1850 The first public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
1853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan
1853 The first U.S. World's fair opens, Crystal Palace New York
1861 General McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia with 40,000 troops
1861 Naval Engagement at Wilmington North Carolina - USS Daylight establishes blockade
1863 Battle of Falling Waters, MD (Beaver Creek)
1863 Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality
1864 Gold is discovered in Helena, Montana
1865 The first ascent of the Matterhorn
1868 Alvin J. Fellows patents tape measure
1877 General strike brings U.S. railroad to a stand still
1891 John T. Smith patents corkboard
1909 Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns
1911 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines
1912 Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8)
1914 The first patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted, Dr. Robert Goddard
1918 Dutch government reclaims South seas
1927 The first commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
1932 Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
1933 Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness
1933 NSDAP becomes only party in Germany
1934 New York Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time
1934 Ruth hits 700th career home run
1936 1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front government
1938 Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish/African manifest
1940 Due to 'Beanball wars,' Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps
1940 Lithuania becomes Lithuanian SSR
1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
1941 Cease fire of Joan of Arc, ends combat in Lebanon and Syria
1941 Jam rationed in Holland
1942 The first transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork
1942 Riots against Jews in Amsterdam
1944 Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested
1944 U.S. assault on Coutances, Cotentin
1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is first U.S. ship to bombard Japan
1946 Cleve Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles and HR but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 HR with 8 RBIs
1946 Dr. Ben Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" published
1946 Mass murder on Jews in Kielce Poland
1948 Israel bombs Cairo
1949 U.S.S.R. explodes their first atom bomb
1950 R.E. Wayne awarded first Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
1951 Citation becomes first horse to win $1,000,000 in races
1951 The first color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
1951 George Washington Carver monument unveiled
1952 SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)
1953 20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1953 Communist offensive in Korea
1953 The first National monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver
1955 2 are killed and many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England
1957 Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
1958 General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq
1958 Pope Pius XII publishes his 39th and last encyclical Meminisse juvat
1958 Saddam Hussein and Iraqi army overthrows the monarchy
1960 Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1960 Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
1961 Astro's Eddie Matthews hits HR #500
1961 Finland's Miettunen government forms
1961 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et Magistrate
1962 Borehole for Mont Blanc-tunnel finished
1962 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sight Golf Open
1964 Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France
1965 Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4)
1965 Israeli/Jordanian border fights
1967 Surveyor 4 launched to Moon: explodes just before landing
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic
1968 Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Reds 6-1
1968 WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1969 "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins
1969 Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1,000 dead)
1970 41st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
1970 All star MVP: Carl Yastremski (Boston Red Sox)
1972 Jean Westwood is first woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee
1972 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test
1973 102nd British Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
1973 Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers
1974 Sharon Miller wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1975 Disney EPCOT Center, Florida, plans announced
1976 Jimmy Carter wins Democratic President nomination in New York City
1976 U.S.S.R. banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands
1977 North Korea shoots down U.S. helicopter, killing 3
1977 U.S. House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1978 Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado
1978 Anatoly Scharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation
1978 Ump Doug Harvey ejects Don Sutton after discovering 3 scuffed balls
1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test
1983 Crane (Rep-R-Il) and Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages
1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1985 40th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Baker
1985 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
1985 Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
1986 10 killed and 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid
1986 2nd government of Lubbers sworn in
1986 41st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jane Geddes
1986 Motley Crue's Vince Neil begins 30 day sentence for vehicular homicide
1986 NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission
1986 Paul McCartney releases "Press"
1986 Richard W. Miller became first FBI agent convicted of espionage
1986 Shalamar's Howard Hewett acquitted in Miami of drug charges
1987 58th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-0 in 13 at Oakland-Alameda Stad
1987 All star MVP: Tim Raines (Montreal Expos)
1987 Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
1987 Lt Col Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony
1987 Rookie of the Year Award is renamed to honor Jackie Robinson
1987 Steve Miller's star is unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1987 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
1988 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorp of Nagorno-Karabak
1988 WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive
1989 16th James Bond movies "License to Kill" premieres
1990 "Howard Stern's Summer Show" premieres on WWOR-TV (New York City)
1990 Sara Martin, of Illinois, crowned America's Junior Miss
1991 46th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Meg Mallon
1991 Failed military coup in Mali
1992 63rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-6 at Jack Murphy Stadium, SD
1992 Actress Nell Carter undergoes brain surgery
1992 All star MVP: Ken Griffey, Jr., Seattle Mariners
1994 Gas explosion at old age home in Milan, 27 people killed
1996 14th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Raymond Floyd
1996 Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1997 Bomb in Algiers kills 21 and wounds 40

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