432 St. Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1214 The first battle of Bouvines: King Philips II Vs Emperor Otto IV
1230 Treaty of San-Germano between Emperor Frederik II and Pope Gregory IX
1280 Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China
1298 Albert I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1298 Roman Catholics German King Albrecht I von Habsburg installed
1360 Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby Gotland
1365 Isabella of England marries Enguerrand of Coucy at Windsor
1501 Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
1563 French army recaptures Le Havre
1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia
1641 Prince Frederik Henry captures castle of Gennep
1643 Cromwell defeats Royalist at Battle of Gainsborough
1655 Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery
1655 Netherlands and Brandenburg sign military treaty
1661 Parliament confirms Navigation Act
1663 English parliament accepts Staple Act
1689 Battle of Killicrankie, Viscount Dundee defeats Whig General MacKay
1689 Jacobite Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie
1694 Bank of England granted 12 year charter by Act of Parliament
1713 Russia and Turkey sign peace treaty
1714 Battle at Hango (Hangut): Russians beat Swedish fleet
1714 English Queen Anne fires Premier Robert Haley
1789 Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs, State Department
1794 Coup of Thermidor: fall of Robespierre in Paris
1795 Spain and France sign peace treaty
1809 Battle at Talavera: British/Spanish army Vs French army
1816 U.S. troops destroy Ft. Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
1830 Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X
1836 Adelaide, South Australia founded
1837 U.S. Mint opens in Charlotte, North Carolina
1839 Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England
1844 Fire destroys U.S. mint at Charlotte, North Carolina
1861 Battle of Mathias Point, Virginia - Rebel forces repel a Federal landing
1861 Battle of St. Augustine Springs
1861 Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico
1861 Union Gen George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army
1862 Hurricane hits Canton: about 40,000 people die
1862 Steamer "Golden Gate" burns and sinks off west coast of Mexico
1864 Battle of Darbytown, Virginia (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains)
1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
1880 A. P. Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil
1888 Philip Pratt unveils first electric automobile
1909 Orville Wright tests first U.S. Army airplane
1913 Belgian Philippe Thys wins Tour de France
1918 Socony 200, first concrete barge in the U.S., launched to carry oil, New York
1919 Chicago race riot: 15 whites and 23 blacks killed, 500 injured
1920 Radio compass used for first time for aircraft navigation
1921 Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolates insulin at University of Toronto
1922 International Geographical Union forms in Brussels
1924 8th Olympic Games closes in Paris
1927 Major Bernard Montgomery (29) marries the widow Betty Carver
1930 Andre Leducq wins Tour de France
1931 Grasshoppers in Iowa, NE and SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops
1932 Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death
1934 French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms
1935 Floods at Yangtzee Jiang and Hoangh, kills 200,000 people
1937 32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1)
1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
1940 Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare"
1941 German army enters Ukraine
1941 Japanese forces land in Indo-China
1943 772 British bombers attack Hamburg
1944 The first British jet fighter used in combat, Gloster Meteor
1944 Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp
1944 U.S. regains possession of Guam from Japanese
1945 U.S. Communist Party forms
1948 Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-Nazi camp at Darmstadt
1949 The first jet-propelled airline flies: De Havilland Comet
1950 President Truman promises aid to Taiwan
1953 Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, and Bill Klem and Tom Connolly are inducted into Hall of Fame
1953 North Korea and United Nations sign armistice
1953 Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory
1954 36th PGA Championship: Chick Herbert at Keller GC St. Paul Minn
1954 Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries
1955 Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 people die
1956 Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia's first innings at Manchester
1957 St. James' Theater in London closes
1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA French Lick Golf Open
1960 VP Nixon nominated for President at Republican convention in Chicago
1962 Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission
1962 Martin Luther King, Jr. jailed in Albany, Georgia
1963 Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1963 General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria
1965 Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government
1965 President Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking
1967 Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns
1967 Helmond Sport soccer team forms
1967 Lyndon Baines Johnson sets up commission to study cause of urban violence
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Canadian Golf Open
1969 15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1969 Pioneer 10 launched
1970 L Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, and Jesse Haines enter Hall of Fame
1974 House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment
1975 Carol Mann wins LPGA George Washington Ladies Golf Classic
1976 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese people
1976 Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested, Lockheed Affair
1977 John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in U.S.
1980 Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead
1980 Sally Little wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
1982 Indian PM Indira Gandhi first visit to U.S. in almost 11 years
1986 14th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
1986 24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague Czech (3-0)
1986 Greg Lemond is first American to win Tour de France
1987 John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible" testifies in Israel
1988 Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer
1990 Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop
1991 Rocker Jani Lane, Warrant-Cherry Pie, marries model Bobbie Brown
1993 Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed
1993 NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million
1993 New York Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games
1996 Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured
1997 "Victor/Victoria" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 738 performances
1997 Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser's #16
1997 Stewart Cink wins golfs Greater Hartford Open (267)
1997 Tammie Green wins Giant Eagle LPGA Classic
