532 Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle
1195 Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia
1380 Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais
1425 Duke John VI van Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good
1510 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin Prussia
1524 Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest
1525 Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau
1545 King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die
1551 Treaty of Karlsburg: arch duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as king of Hungary/Transsylvania
1553 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days
1572 Battle at Saint-Ghislain: Spanish army beats The Genlis' mercenaries
1575 Spanish viceroy Gilles of Hierges attacks Oudewater
1590 King Philip Ii's secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail
1599 Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java
1639 French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan
1674 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer
1688 Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo
1702 Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Crackow
1816 Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension
1848 The first U.S. women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, New York)
1848 German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg
1850 Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die)
1860 The first railroad reaches Kansas
1862 Forrest's first raid
1863 Battle of Buffington's Island (St. George Creek), Ohio
1866 Tennessee is first to ratify 14th Amendment
1867 Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto
1867 Dutch Red Cross forms
1867 Reconstruction enacted
1870 France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins
1875 Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, New York City
1877 The first Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64)
1880 SF Public Library starts lending books
1899 National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, forms
1900 Michel Theato wins 2nd olympics marathon (2:59:45.0-40,260k)
1902 New York Giants lose their first game under new manager John McGraw
1909 Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play
1910 Cy Young registers his 500th career victory
1918 German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)
1928 King Fuad of Egypt grabs power/disbands parliament
1936 Spanish premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jose Giral
1937 Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich
1939 Dr. Roy P Scholz is first surgeon to use fiberglass sutures
1940 Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender
1940 Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald
1940 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid anti-Nazi films
1941 BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (...-) 5th of Beethoven
1941 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
1941 The first U.S. Army flying school for black cadets dedicated
1941 President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee
1942 German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam and Hague
1943 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II
1944 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany
1944 500 15th Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity
1944 Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen
1944 Danish resistance fails on assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen
1944 Democratic convention opens in Chicago
1944 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem
1944 General Bradley flies to England
1944 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks in Marianas
1944 New York archbishop Spellman flies to Europe
1944 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg first meets Eichmann
1945 Edwin Schlossberg, husband of Carolyn Kennedy
1945 USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue
1948 French government of Schuman, resigns
1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union
1950 French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh
1950 New York Yankees obtain their first black players: Elston Howard and Frank Barnes
1950 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris
1952 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland
1955 Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel
1956 U.S. refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
1957 Don Bowden becomes first American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7)
1957 The first rocket with nuclear warhead fired: Yucca Flat, Nevada
1958 Charly Gaul wins Tour de France
1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance
1960 Italian Government Tambroni, resigns
1961 The first in-flight movie shown: TWA
1962 Hungarian Communist Party expels Rakosi and Gero
1963 NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open
1964 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
1966 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas
1966 France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island
1966 Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland: race riot
1967 The first air conditioned New York City subway car
1967 Race riots in Durham, North Carolina
1967 U.S. launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)
1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
1970 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open
1971 Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees
1976 Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony
1976 Rock group Deep Purple disbands
1977 48th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, New York
1977 All star MVP: Don Sutton (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1977 Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kill 76 people
1978 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago - 260,000 TONS of oil spill
1979 Maritza Sayalero, 18, of Venezuela, crowned 28th Miss Universe
1979 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza
1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; U.S. and others boycott
1980 David Bowie appears in role of "Elephant Man" in Denver
1981 110th British Golf Open: Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St. George
1981 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
1982 Bolivian government resigns
1982 David S. Dodge becomes first American hostage in Lebanon
1984 Geraldine A. Ferraro, Rep-D-NY, wins Democratic VP nomination
1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen first school teacher to fly space shuttle
1985 Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die
1986 Caroline Kennedy (28) marries Edwin Schlossberg (41)
1986 Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with
1986 Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane
1987 Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games
1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1989 United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa and kills 112 people
1990 BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 person dies
1990 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion
1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California
1991 Cal Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game
1991 Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant (Desiree Washington)
1992 Ballet dancer Peter Martins charged with beating his wife
1992 Ebony P. Warren, crowned 24th Miss Black America
1993 President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions
1994 Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon, Panama, 21 killed
1994 Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president
1996 Ireland beats Netherlands in first European Championship Final
1996 Jason Gallian scores 312 in 683 mins for Lancashire Vs. Derbyshire
1996 XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta, Georgia
1998 127th British Golf Open: at Royal Birkdale
1998 JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
2005 John G. Roberts, Jr. is nominated to the United States Supreme Court
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