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841 Battle at Fontenay: Louis and Charles beat their brother Lotharius I
1139 Count Alfonso I of Portugal becomes King
1215 Frederik II (20) crowned king of German
1261 Byzantium Emperor Michael VIII recaptures Constantinople
1360 Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
1511 Portugese assault on city Malakka attack
1519 San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba
1521 About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent
1564 Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand II as RC emperor
1570 Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army
1585 Amsterdam bans 45 Roman Catholics
1593 France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic
1652 Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1670 Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna
1670 Don Juan Domingo Zuniga y Fonseca becomes Governor-General of Southern Neth
1670 Vienna Austria expels Jews
1689 France declares war on England
1729 North Carolina becomes a royal colony
1759 British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)
1775 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta
1792 Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion"
1799 French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir
1814 Battle of Niagara Falls, Lundy's Lane: Americans defeat British
1814 George Stephenson introduced the first steam locomotive
1822 Gen Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, first Emperor of Mexico
1832 The first railroad accident in U.S., Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies
1835 Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine
1848 The first battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian
1850 Gold discovered in Oregon, Rogue River
1860 The first U.S. intercollegiate billiard match, Harvard Vs. Yales
1861 Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico Terr - Rebels attack Union troops
1861 Washington D.C. - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union and uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery
1863 Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia
1866 25th Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of WI takes office
1866 David Faragut appointed as first Admiral of U.S. Navy
1866 U.S. Grant named first general of Army
1868 U.S. Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah and Idaho)
1871 Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
1898 The first U.S. troops land and occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay
1900 Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match
1902 James J. Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
1909 France's Louis Bleriot, makes first airplane flight across English Channel
1912 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
1916 Explosion at Lake Erie and Cleveland Waterworks
1918 Annette Adams sworn in as first woman district attorney of U.S., California
1918 Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks and 2 whites killed)
1923 German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1
1930 Philadelphia Athletics triple steal in first and 4th innings Vs Cleveland
1933 The first Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
1934 Failed Nazi coup in Austria
1936 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx
1938 Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany
1938 Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet)
1939 5th and last Dutch government of Colijn, forms
1939 New York Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win
1940 John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours 46 mins in the Mississippi River
1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt bans selling benzene/gasoline to Japan
1942 German troops occupy Rostov
1942 German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
1943 Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
1943 The first warship named for a Black person: SS Leonard Roy Harmon
1943 Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl
1943 RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam
1944 Allied jailbreak at St-Lo, behind German lines
1944 The first jet fighter used in combat, Messerschmitt 262
1944 Japanse banzai-attack on Guam
1944 U.S. troop march into Guam
1946 The first bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
1946 U.S. detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini, 5th atomic explosion
1947 U.S. Air Force, Navy and War Department form U.S. Department of Defense
1947 U.S. Department of Army created
1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day)
1952 Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing U.S. commonwealth
1953 New York City transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, first use of subway tokens
1954 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open
1956 38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston
1956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm
1956 Jordan attacks United Nations Palestine force
1957 Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
1957 Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England Vs. WI Headingley
1957 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1960 Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels
1960 U.S. Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate
1962 House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex
1963 Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations
1963 U.S., Russia and England sign nuclear Test ban treaty
1964 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 14 weeks
1964 Race riot in Rochester, New York
1965 Folk-rock begins: Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament
1966 Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone
1966 Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River
1966 Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"
1966 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1967 Construction begins on San Francisco MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
1968 Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth
1969 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival
1969 Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
1969 The first performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (Fillmore East, New York)
1971 Judy Kimball wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open
1972 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad
1972 All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cin Reds)
1973 George Harrison pays 1,000,000 pounds tax on his Bangladesh concert and album
1973 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 5
1975 "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres
1976 Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1978 Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar
1981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
1982 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0)
1982 37th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson
1982 France performs nuclear Test
1983 The first non-human primate, baboon, conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
1983 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes first woman to walk in space
1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS
1985 Uganda suspends constitution following coup
1986 Sikhs extremist kill 16 Hindus in Muhktsar India
1987 Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt
1987 U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
1988 Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA
1988 Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France
1989 Brandi Sherwood, of Idaho, crowned 7th Miss Teen USA
1990 "Les Miserables," opens at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
1990 Kansas City Royal George Brett hits for the cycle
1990 Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at San Diego Padre game
1990 U.S. Ambassador tells Iraq, U.S. won't take sides in Iraq - Kuwait dispute
1990 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1992 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain
1992 Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr. Mudd
1993 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1993 48th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten
1993 Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44)
1993 Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon
1993 Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France
1994 Jordan and Israeli end 46 year state of war (Washington D.C.)
1996 Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs. United States
1997 Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby
1997 Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian
1997 Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas
1997 QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs
1997 Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling
1997 Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in New York City
1999 54th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship
2000 A Concorde jet crashes outside of Paris after takeoff killing 113 passengers

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