636 Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire
685 John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1148 Crusaders attack Damascus
1215 Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
1253 Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III
1298 Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany
1298 Rindfleish Persecutions-Jewish community Wurzburg Germany annihilated
1403 Battle of Shrewsbury fought by Percys against King Henry IV
1431 Council of Basel opens
1453 Battle at Gavere: Philip the Good beats Gentse rebellion
1532 Karel I and evangelical monarchy signs Peace of Neurenberg
1540 Turkey recognizes Janos Sigismund Zapolyai as vassal-king of Hungary
1558 Battle at Grevelingen: Gen/earl Lamoraal van Egmont beat France
1572 Willem van Oranges troops occupy Roermond on the Spanjaarden
1594 Groningen surrenders to earl Mauritius/Willem Louis
1599 Caravaggio's first public commission for paintings
1645 Aleksei Mihailovitch Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar
1664 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of New York, arrive in Boston
1726 Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia
1745 Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides
1764 James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation
1798 Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
1803 Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin
1812 Battle of Mogilev Russia-Napolean fights Czar Alexander I
1827 The first U.S. swim school opens: Boston
1829 William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (aka typewriter)
1834 HMS Beagle anchors in Bay of Valparaiso
1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada
1848 Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts
1850 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of New York takes office
1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians and U.S.
1852 first interment in U.S. National Cemetery at Presidio
1858 Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
1863 Alexandra Park opens in North London
1864 Battle of Woodstock, Virginia
1866 Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms
1870 Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eugenie as Regent of France
1877 The first telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed
1877 The first U.S. municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations
1880 The first commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1886 Steve Brodie supposedly survives a plunge from the Brooklyn Bridge
1888 John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire
1900 Pan-African Congress meets in London
1903 Ford Motors sells their first Model A car
1904 Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo
1906 Pogroms against Jews in Oddessa
1907 7th Davis Cup: Australasia beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
1913 Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine
1914 Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I
1917 Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes
1920 British East Africa renamed Kenya and becomes a British crown colony
1921 Chinese Communist Party forms under Henk Sneevliet
1925 New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his first of 23 career grand slammers
1926 France government of Poincare, forms
1930 Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 people killed
1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone is announced at Yale University
1940 "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins
1942 German troops conquer Rostow
1942 Hitler's Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad
1943 Battle of Koersk, U.S.S.R. ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
1943 U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini
1944 Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin
1944 Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland
1944 U.S. forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II
1944 U.S. troops occupy Pisa, Italy
1945 Marshal Henri Petain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial
1946 Menachem Begins opposition group bombs King David Hotel
1948 Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President
1952 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt
1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 KPH
1956 Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg inducted into Hall of Fame
1958 The first 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords
1959 VP Richard Nixon begins visit on U.S.S.R.
1960 15th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1961 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1964 Egyptian munitions ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage
1965 Beatles "Help" is released in UK
1966 Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens
1966 John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m)
1966 Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"
1967 43 people die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
1968 PLO's first hijacking of an El Al plane
1968 Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed
1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France
1972 The first Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic
1973 Ozark Airlines plane knocked out of air by lightning, St. Louis-36 die
1973 President Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
1973 Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan and Prime Minister of Oman
1973 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1974 45th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-2 at 3 Rivers Stadium
1974 All star MVP: Steve Garvey (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1974 Greek military dictatorship collapses
1975 Alan Ayckbourn's "Absent Friends," premieres in London
1976 42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895)
1977 Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges
1978 33rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1978 Israeli government rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas
1978 Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 78th pitcher to win 200
1978 Reggie Jackson returns and helps Yankees win their 5th straight
1980 Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya
1980 River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
1982 FCC approves AM stereo radio: KTSA San Antonio goes stereo
1982 International Whaling Comn votes for total ban on coml whaling (starting 1985)
1984 Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984
1984 Vanessa Williams, first black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude
1986 Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson
1986 King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres
1987 Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record)
1989 118th British Golf Open: Mark Calcavecchia shoots a 275 at Royal Troon
1989 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1989 FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC and CBS for first time: America's Most Wanted
1989 Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas
1990 Rosie Jones, (St. Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America
1990 South-Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
1991 James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession
1993 British Aerospace 147 crashes at Yinchuan: 55 killed
1993 Chinese B737 crash at Yinchuan, at least 66 killed
1994 All 40,000 ceiling tiles in Kingdome must be replaced
1994 Amy Osmond, of Utah, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
1994 Dancer Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke
1994 Don Mattingly becomes 6th New York Yankee to get 2,000 hits
1994 Goodwill Games open in St. Petersburg
1994 Longest baseball rain delay (3:39) as Giants beat Mets 4-2 in New York City
1995 124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St. Andrews Scotland
1995 Miguel Indurains wins his 5th Tour de France
1995 Tracy Kerdyk wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1997 Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin and Erik Williams for reporting false sexual assault allegations against them
2000 129th British Golf Open: at Royal Lytham
2000 55th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship
