514 St. Hormisdas elected Pope, succeeding Pope Sympowerus
1031 Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France
1495 French viceroy of Naples Montpensier surrenders
1498 Emperor Maximilian names Albrecht governor of Netherlands
1553 PM John Dudley captured in Cambridge
1608 Reynier van Oldenbarnevelt marries Anna Weytzen in Delft
1609 Emperor Rudolf II grants Silezische protestants freedom of religion
1619 Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader
1627 English fleet under George Villiers reaches La Rochelle
1654 Anglo-Portuguese treaty, Portugal comes under English control
1749 Earl of Chesterfield says "Idleness is only refuge of weak minds"
1773 Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)
1801 Elisha Brown, Jr. pressed a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm
1808 Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names
1810 Colombia declares independence from Spain
1836 Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension
1847 German astronomer Theodor discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf
1849 Start of first Lancashire-Yorkshire clash at Hyde Park, Sheffield
1855 The first train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands
1858 Fee first charged to see a baseball game (50 cents ) (New York beats Brooklyn 22-18)
1858 Gathering of Plombieres - Napoleon III meets Cavour
1861 Confederate state's congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Virginia
1864 Battle at Stephenson's Depot Virginia: 200 killed or injured
1864 Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign
1866 Sea battle of Lissa-Austria Vs Italy
1868 The first use of tax stamps on cigarettes
1871 British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province
1872 Mahlon Loomis patents wireless radio
1876 The first U.S. intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, New York; Princeton wins
1877 Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9
1878 The first telephone introduced in Hawaii
1881 Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops
1890 "Gibbons Stamp Monthly" begins publishing
1894 2,000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike
1903 Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X
1910 Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption
1911 Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany
1913 Turkish troop take Adrianopel and Erdine from Bulgaria
1914 Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster
1916 Giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cin Reds
1917 Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes form Yugoslavia
1922 Togo made a mandate of League of Nations
1925 Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France
1925 Italian-Serbian/Croatian/Slav treaty about Dalmatie
1927 Lindbergh begins New York flight in the Spirit of St. Louis
1933 Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler
1938 Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws
1940 Billboard publishes its first singles record chart (#1 is "I'll Never Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey)
1940 Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands
1940 Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist
1942 The first detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training
1942 Legion of Merit Medal authorized by congress
1942 Time puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch on its cover
1942 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines
1943 Joint Chiefs of Staff question adm Nimitz (landing Gilbert Island)
1944 Brit/Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy
1944 British premier Winston Churchill flies to France to meet Montgomery
1944 Browns Nelson Potter is first pitcher suspended for throwing spitballs
1944 Canadian Cameroon Highlanders conquer St-Andre
1944 Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins
1944 Fieldmarshal von Kluge consults with German commandant at Caen
1944 Flying Fortresses of U.S. 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau
1944 General Eisenhower visits Montgomery's headquarter in Normandy
1944 Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen
1944 Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sinks by U.S. air attack
1944 July 20th Plot-Failed assassination attempt on Hitler
1944 Liberators of U.S. 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim/Eisenach
1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention
1944 U.S. 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen
1944 U.S. 9th AF bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux
1944 U.S. invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II
1944 Violent battles in Verrieres-hill (Normandy)
1947 The first political action of Netherlands Army on Java and Sumatra
1948 Syngman Rhee elected president of South-Korea
1948 U.S. Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested
1949 Israel's 19 month war of independence ends
1949 Vasil Kolarov elected premier of Bulgaria
1950 "Arthur Murray Party" premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)
1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic Record 10K (29:17.0)
1952 Fausto Coppi wins Tour de France
1953 U.S.S.R./Israel recover diplomatic relations
1954 Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North and South
1954 Tennis champ Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in an accident
1954 West German secret service head Otto John defects to German DR
1956 France recognizes Tunisia's independence
1956 Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
1956 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1958 40th PGA Championship: Dow Finsterwald shoots a 276 at Llanerch CC PA
1958 Betty Jameson/Mary Lena Faulk wins Homestead 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1958 King Hussein of Jordan breaks off diplomatic relations with UAR
1960 The first submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (the George Washington)
1960 Sirima Bandaranaike becomes first female premier of Ceylon
1960 U.S.S.R. recovered 2 dogs; first living organisms to return from space
1962 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 13th Symphony
1962 France and Tunisia recover diplomatic relations
1963 17 African states and Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC
1963 18th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mary Mills
1963 Verne Gagne beats Crusher Lisowski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1964 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 10th String quartet
1964 The first surfin' record to go #1: Jan and Dean's "Surf City"
1967 Pablo Neruda receives first Viareggio-Versile prizes
1967 Race riots in Memphis, Tennessee
1968 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV
1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Danbury Lady Carling Golf Open
1969 Eddy Merckx wins Tour de France
1969 The first men on Moon: Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
1973 Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ
1974 Heng Yo and Heng Ju, completes 1,000 mile (SF-Seattle) pilgrimage
1974 Turkey invades Cyprus
1975 30th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer
1976 Hank Aaron hits 755th and last home run off Angels Jerry Augustine
1976 Last U.S. troops leave Thailand
1976 U.S. Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, first Martian landing
1977 Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 80 and causing $350 mil damage
1979 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2,293-kg load: Bothell, WA
1980 109th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 271 at Muirfield Gullane
1980 Joop Zoetemelk wins Tour de France
1980 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
1981 England set for innings loss Vs. Aust, Botham hits 100 in 87 balls
1981 Irene Saez, of Venezuela, crowned 30th Miss Universe
1982 Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks
1982 IRA bomb attacks in London
1983 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1984 Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m
1984 Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America
1985 Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
1986 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1987 Don Mattingly ties first base fielding record with 22 put-outs
1988 Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee
1989 Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest
1990 Justice William Brennan resigns from Supreme Court after 36 years
1991 Kirk Cameron marries Growing Pains co-star Chelsea Noble in upstate New York
1992 121st British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 272 at Muirfield Gullane
1992 Round World Air Race begins in Paris
1993 Fire in the press box at Altanta Fulton County Stadium
1993 Joe Petruzzi files for divorce from Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever)
1994 Major parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (July 16th-22nd)
1994 O. J. Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife's klller
1997 126th British Golf Open: Billy Ray Brown shoots a 271 at Royal Troon
1997 American Justin Leonard wins the British Open shooting at 272
1997 Burnet Senior Golf Classic
1997 Michele Redman wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Classic
2005 Canada becomes the 4th country to permit same-sex marriage
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