388 Battle at Aquileja: Emperor Theodosius beats emperor Magnus Maximis
754 Pope Stephen II, [III] makes Pippin de Korte, King of France
1148 Crusaders attack Damascus
1402 Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur Lenk beats Sultan Bajezid I
1434 Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon
1540 English King Henry VIII marries Catharine Howard, his 5th wife
1579 Cardinal Granvelle returns to Madrid
1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe
1588 Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I
1609 Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda
1635 Spanish marshal Piccolomini conquerors Schenkenschans
1683 Anne Stuart marries prince Georges of Denmark
1696 De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance
1741 Capt Bering discovers Mount St. Elias, Alaska
1742 Prussia and Austria sign peace treaty
1821 Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1830 Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe
1849 Memmon is first clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of New York
1851 Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
1858 Nadar takes first airborne photo, in a balloon
1858 William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India
1862 Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo
1864 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia
1864 Battle of Atlanta Georgia (Ezra Church)-second sortie US700 CS4642
1866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in U.S.
1868 14th Amendment ratified, grants citizenship to ex-slaves
1882 Opera "Parsifal" is produced (Beirut)
1883 Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000 people
1886 English Salisbury government forms
1896 City of Miami incorporated
1898 Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender
1900 The Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
1913 12th Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
1914 Foxtrot first danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox)
1914 Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow
1914 World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
1915 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (New York City) protesting lynchings
1915 U.S. forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924
1917 Silent Parade in New York City to protest murders of blacks in race riots
1926 U.S. and Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal
1928 9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam
1931 Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem
1932 Battle between unemployed war veterans and federal troops, 4 die
1932 President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment
1933 The first singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), New York City
1933 NFL divides into (2) 5 team divisions
1933 Spain recognizes the U.S.S.R.
1935 Belgium's Romain Maes, wins Tour de France
1938 34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead
1939 5th Dutch government of Colijn falls
1940 Radio Orange, London begins
1942 Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto
1942 Zionists partisans ZOB forms in Poland
1943 Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
1943 President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces end of coffee rationing in U.S.
1944 Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy
1944 U.S. 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France
1945 Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building
1945 Japanese premier Suzuki disregards U.S. ultimatum to surrender
1945 U.S. Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die
1945 U.S. Senate ratifies United Nations charter 89-2
1948 I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die
1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
1957 Jerry Lee Lewis makes his first TV appearance, Steve Allen Show
1957 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1958 Baltimore Colts win NFL-championship
1959 Great-Britain starts using postal codes
1959 Hawaii's first U.S. election sends first Asian-Americans to Congress
1960 Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
1962 19 die in a train crash in Steelton, Pennsylvania
1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1964 England all out 611 in reply to Australia's 8-656 Match a draw
1964 Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures
1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam
1971 Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie"
1972 39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7
1973 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1973 Jane Blalock/Sandra Palmer wins Lady Angelo's 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1973 Skylab 3's astronauts, Bean, Garriott and Lousma, launched
1974 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck, Belem, Brazil
1974 Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
1976 8.2 and 7.4 earthquake devastate Tangsha, China: 240,000-750,000 people die
1976 Eldon Joersz and Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph
1977 The first oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska
1977 Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks
1978 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in New York
1978 Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for first time
1980 Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaunde Terry becomes president
1984 23rd modern Olympic Games opens in Los Angeles
1985 13th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
1985 Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru
1985 L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, and H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame
1986 Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed
1987 42nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Laura Davies
1987 Angel Cordero, Jr. becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races
1988 IBM announces price hike on older models
1988 Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for first visit in 21 years
1988 Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank
1988 Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson
1989 NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleve, announce new high-temperature superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz
1990 Alberto Fujimoro installed as president of Peru
1991 12th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus
1991 29th Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Nottingham England (2-1)
1991 Buffalo Bills beat Philadelphia Eagles, 17-13 in American Bowl in Wembley
1991 Dennis Martinez pitches the 15th perfect game in baseball history
1991 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Bay State Golf Classic
1991 Miguel Indurain of Spain wins Tour de France bicycle race
1994 Baseball players decide to strike on Aug 12, 1994
1996 Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Micelob Light Heartland Golf Classic
1997 Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion
2004 Democrats nominate John Kerry as their Presidential candidate
2005 IRA issues a statement ordering the end to the armed campaign against the British
