Today In History

362 Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws
626 Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople
1014 Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies
1030 Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim)
1560 Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden
1563 League of High Nobles routes King Philip II
1565 Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
1579 Antwerp request union with of Utrecht
1579 King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez and princess van Eboli
1585 Friese academy opens
1588 Attacking Spanish Armada defeated and scattered by English defenders
1588 Duke Farneses troops ready for invasion of England
1634 Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Curacao
1655 Biggest town hall in the world opens in Amsterdam
1676 Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians
1693 Battle at Neerwinden: French beats English/Dutch army
1696 French king Louis XIV and Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace
1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sink off Florida coast by hurricane
1751 The first international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 minutes in England
1773 The first schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
1783 Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000
1786 The first newspaper published west of Allegheny Mtns: Pitts Gazette
1844 New York Yacht Club forms
1858 The first commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed
1858 U.S. citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan
1864 3rd and last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
1864 Battle of Macon, Georgia (Stoneman's Raid)
1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
1899 The first motorcycle race: Manhattan Beach, New York
1902 Union of Orthodox Rabbis of U.S. and Canada forms
1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
1914 British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover
1914 The first transcontinental phone link made between New York City and SF
1914 Russia mobilizes troops along Austrian boundary
1916 Postal check and Girodienst establishes
1920 The first transcontinental airmail flight from New York to SF
1920 Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders
1921 New rules of language assumed, equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium
1923 Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin
1923 KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany
1924 Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship
1927 Bellevue Hospital in New York installs first iron lung
1927 The first iron lung installed: Bellevue hospital, New York
1929 Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France
1930 Airship R100, first passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada
1934 17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville NY
1936 RCA shows first real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road)
1937 Japanese troops occupy Peking and Tientsin
1938 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace" first appears
1938 Olympic National Park forms
1943 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg
1943 Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam
1944 Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours
1944 U.S. 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches
1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine
1947 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg, Virginia
1948 King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London
1949 Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends
1949 BBC radio begins broadcasting
1952 The first nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
1953 U.S. bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok
1955 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test
1956 11th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius
1957 Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1957 International Atomic Energy Agency formed by U.N.
1957 Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres
1958 President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958
1958 Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running
1961 Bob Dylan injured in car accident
1961 Wallis and Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory
1965 Beatles movie "Help" premieres; Queen Elizabeth attends
1966 Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock New York
1967 Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134
1967 Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage
1968 Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited
1968 Washington D.C. Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play Vs Cleve
1969 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
1970 6 days of race rioting in Hartford, Connecticut
1972 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1973 $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from New York, Hilton
1973 Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy
1974 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee
1974 Episcopal Church ordained female priests
1974 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 St. Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base
1975 Ford became first U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
1976 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test
1978 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, New York
1978 Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h 40m
1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings
1979 7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott
1981 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated
1981 Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris
1981 Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer
1982 Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson
1984 23rd Summer Olympics opens in Los Angeles
1986 Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed
1986 New York jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages
1987 Ben and Jerry's and Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia
1988 FDIC bails out first Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion
1988 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1989
1988 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
1988 Last U.S. Playboy Club, Lansing, Michigan, closes
1988 South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"
1990 26th Curtis Cup: U.S. wins 14-4
1990 28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats U.S.S.R. in Atlanta Georgia (2-1)
1990 36th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Beth Daniel
1990 Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game
1991 Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7 caret engagement ring
1991 The first Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium, Mets beat Cubs 6-0
1991 Yankee Stadium fans throw cups and blowup dolls at Jose Canseco
1992 Ray Sharkey, actor, Wiseguys, arrested for narcotic possession
1993 Cincinnati Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession
1993 Walter Koenig, Checkov-Star Trek, suffers a mild heart attack
1994 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin
1994 Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8 year jail sentenced
1994 H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election
1994 India army kills 27 Moslem militants
1994 Jesse Timmedequas, rapes and murders Megan Kanka, 7 (premise for Megan's Law)
1994 Parliamentary election in Aruba
1995 Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis

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