64 Great Fire of Rome begins
1290 King Edward I of England orders expulsion of Jews
1330 Battle of Velbuzd
1536 Pope's authority declared void in England
1572 Willem van Orange recognized as viceroy of Holland/Friesland/Utrecht
1588 Admiral Howard beats Spanish Armada
1630 Spanish troops occupy Mantua
1656 Battle at Warsaw: Swedish king Karel X Gustaafbeats Johan II Kasimir and occupies Warsaw
1696 Czar Peter I's fleet occupies Azov at mouth of Don River
1716 Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels
1737 Battle at Banja Luka: Turkish army beats Austrians
1743 The first half-page newspaper ad is published: New York Weekly Journal
1753 Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham Massachusetts
1766 Society of the Dutch Literary forms
1768 Boston Gazette publishes "Liberty Song," America's first patriotic song
1814 British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc)
1853 Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over first North American railroad between Portland, Maine and Montreal
1861 Battle of Blackburn's Ford, Virginia US57 CS68 - Manassas -
1862 Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces
1863 Battle of Fort Wagner, South Carolina - Second assault US1500 CS174
1864 President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service
1870 Pontifical infalliability proclaimed
1872 Britain introduces secret ballot voting
1882 Louisville Tony Mullane is first to pitch righty then lefty
1893 Harry Graham scores 107 on cricket debut Australia Vs. England, Lord's
1896 2nd U.S. Golf Open: James Foulis shoots a 152 at Shinnecock Hills NY
1897 3rd U.S. Golf Open: James Foulis wins
1897 Cap Anson, is first to get 3,000 hits
1907 Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1907," premieres in New York City
1907 French troops occupy Casablanca
1914 U.S. Army air service first comes into being, in Signal Corps
1915 2nd Battle of Isonzo begins and ends with loss of 280,000 men
1918 U.S. and French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I
1921 Black Sox trial begins in Chicago
1923 England's House of Lords accepts new divorce law
1924 KPD points out Rote Frontkampferbund against Nazi
1925 Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
1927 Ty Cobb's 4,000th career hit
1932 Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands sign Unity treaty
1932 U.S. and Canada sign a treaty to develop St. Lawrence Seaway
1935 Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000
1936 Spanish Civil War begins, Gen. Francisco Franco led uprising
1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left New York for California
1940 British government signs Bruma law under Japanese pressure
1940 Democratic Convention nominates Franklin D. Roosevelt for a 3rd term
1940 The first successful helicopter flight: Stratford, Connecticut
1941 SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia
1942 The first legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years: Garden State Park track opens
1942 Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, first jet fighter, takes first flight
1943 British assault on Catania Sicily
1944 Allies air raid railways at Vaires Paris
1944 Arne Andersson runs world record 1 mile (4:01.6)
1944 British air raid on German convoy SW of Helgoland
1944 British Mosquito's attack Cologne and Berlin
1944 British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range Normandy
1944 Polish troops under gen Anders occupy Ancona Italy
1947 British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine
1947 King George VI signs Indian Independence Bill
1947 President Truman signs Presidential Succession Act
1947 U.S. begins administering Trust Territory of Pacific Islands
1948 Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits 4 home runs in a game
1951 Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion
1951 Uruguay accepts its constitution
1954 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Inverness Four-Ball Golf Tournament
1955 The first electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1956 Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rakosi as party leader of Hungary
1959 The first black to win a major golf tournament: William Wright
1960 Baseball's NL votes to add Houston and New York franchises
1960 The first United Nations troops reach Congo
1960 Premier Kishi of Japan, resigns
1963 Failed military coup in Syria
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Yankee Golf Open
1965 Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit
1966 Gemini 10 launched (John Young and Michael Collins)
1967 Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in New York
1968 Intel incorporates
1969 Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL
1970 Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palermo Sicily
1970 Giants Willie Mays hits 3,000 homers
1970 Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time
1971 Eddy Merckx wins his 3rd Tour de France
1972 200,000 attend Mt. Pocono rock festival in Pennsylvania
1972 Egypt president Sadat throws 20,000 Russian military aids out
1974 World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
1975 Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins (the first athlete indicted for excessive violence during play)
1976 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1976 Lucien van Impe wins Tour de France
1976 Stockhausens "Sirius," premieres in New York City
1977 Vietnam becomes member of U.N.
1978 Billy Martin suspends Reggie Jackson for not bunting
1978 Egyptian and Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks
1979 Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London
1980 Billy Joel's Glass Houses album tops charts
1980 Failed attack on Iran ex-premier Bakhtiar in Neuilly, France
1980 Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women
1980 Quett Masire installed as president of Botswana
1981 Part of Hyatt Regency Hotel Kansas City caves in (113 people killed)
1981 Poland Communist Party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek
1982 111th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 284 at Royal Troon
1982 Sally Little wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1984 James Huberty kills 21 McDonald's patrons in San Ysidro California
1984 Walter F. Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco
1986 115th British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 280 at Turnberry Scotld
1988 Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on City of Poros cruise ship
1991 Mike Tyson meets Miss Black America contestants
1992 Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith
1992 Helen Windsor (daughter of English prince Edward) weds Timothy Taylor
1992 Sharon Belden, of Fla, 25, crowned Miss World USA
1992 Singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown marry
1993 122nd British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 267 at Royal St. George
1993 Afghanistan president Ishaq Khan and premier Nawaz Sharif resign
1993 Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (51,596 K)
1993 Hiromi Kobayash wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1993 Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan's parliamentary election
1994 Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed
1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter
1994 Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights
1994 Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons
1995 DC3 crashes at Antananarivo Madagaskar, 34 people die
1999 128th British Golf Open: at Camoustie Scot
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