579 Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
657 St. Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I
1178 Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy
1419 Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague and throw Catholic councillors out the windows
1537 Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire
1601 Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius
1618 Prince Maurits' troops pull into Utrecht
1619 House of Burgesses Virginia forms, first elective U.S. governing body
1626 Earthquake hits Naples; 10,000 people die
1646 English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions
1650 Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam
1653 Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland
1655 Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram
1678 English troops lands in Flanders
1715 Spanish gold and silver fleet disappears off St. Lucie, Florida
1729 City of Baltimore founded
1733 Society of Freemasons opens first American lodge in Boston
1739 Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, New Jersey
1775 Capt Cook with Resolution returns to England
1792 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for first time
1809 English invasion army lands in Walcheren
1822 James Varick becomes first bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church
1824 Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris
1826 Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed
1836 The first English newspaper published in Hawaii
1839 Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
1863 President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
1864 Battle of the Crater: Gen Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg
1864 Confederate troops attack Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in fire
1865 Pope Pius IX visits Suriname
1866 Race riot in New Orleans
1870 Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns killing 100 people
1874 The first baseball teams to play outside U.S., Boston-Philadelphia in British Isles
1878 German anti-Semitism begins during the Reichstag election
1878 Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties
1898 Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
1902 Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (New York City)
1905 Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms
1908 Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris
1909 John A. Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
1909 Wright Brothers deliver first military plane to the army
1913 Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War
1914 Austrian-Hungary and Russia proclaim general mobilization
1914 French troops withdraw 10 km from German border
1914 John French appointed British supreme commander
1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, New Jersey
1917 Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its first meeting
1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency
1926 Albanian boundaries deduced
1928 George Eastman shows first color motion pictures
1930 The first broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio
1930 Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's first World Cup in Montevideo
1932 10th modern Olympic Games opens in Los Angeles
1933 28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2)
1935 The first Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
1938 Gen Metaxas names himself premier of Greece
1939 Belgium Sylvere Maes wins 33rd Tour de France
1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
1942 German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands
1942 German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released: Girl Crazy
1943 U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano
1944 Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire and Villebaudon Normandy
1944 U.S. 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy
1945 Philippines Sea: U.S. cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die
1946 The first rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico
1948 Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV
1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players
1952 Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid
1954 Bob Kennedy hits the first grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles
1954 Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
1955 Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France
1956 U.S. motto, In God We Trust, authorized
1961 43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields IL
1961 Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1962 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
1962 All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels)
1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
1964 U.S. naval fire on Hon Ngu, North Vietnam
1965 Duke Ellington's "Golden Brown and the Green Apple," premieres
1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966
1966 England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open
1966 U.S. airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam
1967 Clifford Ann Creed/Margie Masters wins Yankee Ladies' Team Golf Champ
1967 Race riot in Milwaukee: 4 people killed
1969 Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
1969 Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3,410 km (74 photos)
1970 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield, Connecticut
1971 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17
1971 Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162 people
1971 U.S. Apollo 15 (Scott and Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
1972 Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
1974 House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd and last charge of "high crimes and misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up
1975 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit
1976 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
1976 Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
1978 Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits and NL-record-tying 8 HRs
1978 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1980 Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke
1980 Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain and France
1981 Belgian Senate accept laws against racism
1982 Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats
1983 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 KPH, California
1983 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of U.S.S.R. jerks a record 261 kg
1984 Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
1985 Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
1988 Cincinnati Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month
1988 Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873 meters
1988 James Ogilvy, under Engl princess Alexandra, marries Julia Rawlinson
1988 John Franco saves record 13th game of July
1988 Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignty over West Bank to PLO
1988 King Hussein dissolves Jordan's House of Representatives
1989 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
1990 George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of New York Yankees
1990 Graham Gooch scores 123 Vs. India to follow up first innings 333
1990 Soldiers open fire on worshippers in Monrovian church: 200-600 people die
1991 MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993
1995 Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter baseball's Hall of Fame
1996 Tommy Lasoda retires as Los Angeles Dodger manager
1997 Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem kills 14 people
