561 John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
855 St. Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1054 Emperor Henry III crowns his son Henry IV, King
1070 Arnulf III the Hapless becomes Earl of Flanders
1203 Venetianen conquer Constantinople
1245 Pope bans emperor Frederik II Hohenstaufen for the 3rd time
1393 Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria
1429 Dauphin crowned king of France
1453 The first battle at Castillon: French beat English troops
1473 Charles the Stout conquerors Nijmegen
1509 Venice recaptures Padua
1549 Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium
1552 Siena drives Spanish troops out of Verdun
1583 Spanish and Walloon troops conquer Dunkerk
1585 English secret service discovers Anthony Babingtons murder plot against Queen Elizabeth I
1596 At 10:30AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya
1603 Sir Walter Raleigh is arrested
1727 Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor
1740 Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV
1774 Capt Cook arrives at New Hebrides (Vanuata)
1775 The first military hospital approved
1788 Russian fleet destroys Swedish
1794 African Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated
1794 Richard Allen organizes Phila's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
180 Christenen Cittinus/Donatus/Natzalus/Secunda/Speratus/Vestia sentenced to death in Carthago
1821 Spain cedes Florida to U.S.
1841 British humor magazine "Punch" first published
1850 Harvard Observatory takes first photograph of a star: Vega
1861 Congress authorizes paper money
1862 Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition
1862 U.S. Army authorized to accept blacks as laborers
1863 Battle of Honey Springs - largest battle in Indian Territory
1864 CSA President Davis replaces General Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood
1866 Italian fleet under Persano captures Austrian Fort Lissa
1867 The first U.S. dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
1879 The first railroad opens in Hawaii
1890 Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape colony
1893 Arthur Shrewsbury is first to score 1,000 runs in Test Cricket
1897 The first ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon
1898 Spanish American War-Spaniards surrender to U.S. at Santiago Cuba
1900 New York Giant Christy Mathewson begins career losing to Brooklyn Superbas
1917 British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor
1919 Finland adopts constitution
1922 Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
1922 Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year
1929 U.S.S.R. drops diplomatic relations with China
1934 Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland
1935 Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix"
1936 Military uprising under Gen Franco/begins Spanish civil war
1938 Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves New York for LA, wound up in Ireland
1939 22nd PGA Championship: Henry Picard at Pomonok CC Flushing NY
1942 Transport NR 6 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
1943 RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde
1944 2 ammunition ships explode at Port Chicago, California kills 322
1944 Russian troops cross river Bug/march into Poland
1945 Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds first meeting
1948 Israeli army captures Nazareth
1948 Proclamation of constitution of Republic of (South) Korea
1950 Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka
1951 King Leopold II of Belgium gives up throne to son Boudouin I
1952 Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh premier
1954 The first major league game where majority of team is black: Dodgers
1954 Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany
1955 Arco, Idaho becomes first U.S. city lit by nuclear power
1955 Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County
1958 King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan/Iraqi federation
1958 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak
1959 Dr. Leakey discovers oldest human skull: 600,000 years old
1959 Tibet abolishes serfdom
1961 John Chancellor becomes news anchor of Today Show
1962 East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall
1962 Senate rejects Medicare for aged
1962 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1966 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1966 Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
1967 Monkees perform at Forest Hills, New York, Jimi Hendrix is opening act
1967 Race riots in Cairo, Illinois
1968 Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London
1970 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, New York City
1971 Kathy Whitworth/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Four-Ball Golf Championship
1973 Military coup in Afghanistan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah flees
1974 Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 (Cesar Geronimo)
1974 first quadrophonic studio in U.K. is open by Moody Blues
1974 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 John Lennon is ordered to leave U.S. in 60 days
1975 Ringo Starr and Maureen Cox divorce
1976 21st modern Olympic games open in Montreal
1976 Indonesian President Suharto annexes East Timor
1977 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1979 50th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-6 at Kingdome, Seattle
1979 All star MVP: Dave Parker (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1979 Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza flees to Miami
1979 Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo
1980 Bolivian military coup: General Garcia Meza becomes president
1980 Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president
1980 Zenko Suzuki becomes premier of Japan
1981 Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut
1981 Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse 114 die, 200 injured
1981 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1983 112th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 275 at Royal Birkdale
1983 Beth Daniel wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic
1983 The first USFL championship
1984 Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France
1986 Emmy 13th Daytime Award presentation
1987 "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo
1987 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood in Comfort, Texas
1987 Dow Jones closes above 2,500 (2,510.04) for first time
1987 Iran and France break diplomatic relations
1988 117th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots 273 at Royal Lytham
1988 4 Billion TV viewers watch Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute
1988 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1988 Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 100m woman's record (10.49)
1988 Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103° F
1989 The first Test flight of U.S. stealth-bomber
1989 Paul McCartney releases "This One"
1990 Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
1990 PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis
1994 123rd British Golf Open: Nick Price shoots a 268 at Turnberry, Scotland
1994 Beth Daniel wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1994 Brazil beats Italy in a shoot out, for their 4th soccer world cup
1994 French youngster (age 4) becomes Buddhist Lama Tulkou Kalou Rinpoche
1994 Hulk Hogan beats Ric Flair to win WCW wrestling championship
1995 Forbes Magazine announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world: $12.9 billion
1996 230 people die when TWA 800 crashes outside of New York City
1998 Russia buries Tsar Nicholas II and family: 80 years after they died
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