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  • 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)
  • 1179 Lando Sittino proclaimed (anti-)pope Innocent III
  • 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 & princess van Eboli
  • 1585 Friese academy opens
  • 1588 Attacking Spanish Armada defeated & scattered by English defenders
  • 1588 Duke Farneses troops ready for invasion of England
  • 1634 Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Curaçao
  • 1655 Biggest townhall 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 & Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace
  • 1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane
  • 1751 1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 mins in England
  • 1773 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
  • 1783 Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000
  • 1786 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette
  • 1835 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins
  • 1844 NY Yacht Club forms
  • 1858 1st commercial treaty between US & Japan signed
  • 1858 US citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan
  • 1864 3rd & last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
  • 1864 Battle of Macon, GA (Stoneman's Raid)
  • 1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
  • 1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY
  • 1899 Southern Calif Golf Assn forms
  • 1902 Union of Orthodox Rabbis of US & Canada forms
  • 1907 1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France
  • 1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
  • 1908 St Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Phila Athletics
  • 1910 JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory
  • 1911 Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
  • 1913 Albania becomes sovereignty under prince Wilhelm von Wied
  • 1914 1st transcontinental phone link made between NYC & SF
  • 1914 Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade
  • 1914 British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover
  • 1914 Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary
  • 1915 Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR
  • 1916 Postal check & Girodienst establishes
  • 1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
  • 1920 Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders
  • 1921 Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 inn
  • 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 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY)
  • 1927 Bellevue Hospital in NY installs 1st iron lung
  • 1927 Phil Mead scores his 100th 100, Hampshire v Northants
  • 1928 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
  • 1928 Cleve Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yanks 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game
  • 1929 Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France
  • 1930 115°F (46°C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)
  • 1930 Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada
  • 1934 17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville NY
  • 1936 RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show & monologue from Tobacco Road & comedy)
  • 1937 Japanese troops occupies Peking & Tientsin
  • 1938 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears
  • 1938 Olympic National Park forms
  • 1940 Urk soccer team forms
  • 1942 Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd
  • 1943 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg
  • 1943 Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam
  • 1944 Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours
  • 1944 Frank McCormick (Reds) HR off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH
  • 1944 US 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches
  • 1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed & sunk by a Japanese submarine
  • 1947 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg Va
  • 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
  • 1950 Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run
  • 1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
  • 1953 US bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok
  • 1955 Smokey Burgess hits 3 HRS to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5
  • 1955 USSR performs nuclear Test
  • 1956 11th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius
  • 1956 Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)
  • 1956 WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, FL (IND) begins broadcasting
  • 1957 Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
  • 1957 International Atomic Energy Agency forms by UN
  • 1957 Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres
  • 1958 Pres Eisenhower signs NASA & Space Act of 1958
  • 1958 Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running
  • 1961 Bob Dylan injured in car accident
  • 1961 Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games
  • 1961 Wallis & Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory
  • 1965 Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends
  • 1965 Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
  • 1965 Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)
  • 1965 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
  • 1966 Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock NY
  • 1966 Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup
  • 1967 Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134
  • 1967 Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage
  • 1967 U S S Forrestal explodes kills 134. $100 million damage
  • 1968 Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
  • 1968 Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
  • 1968 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
  • 1968 Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited
  • 1968 Wash DC 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 Ct
  • 1972 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
  • 1973 $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from NY 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 1st US pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
  • 1975 Military coup by Gen Mohammed/Pres Jakubu Gowon fired
  • 1976 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
  • 1978 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, NY
  • 1978 Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h40m
  • 1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings
  • 1978 On Old Timer's Day, NY Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as NY Yankee manager in 1980 & Bob Lemon will become GM
  • 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
  • 1983 "Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV
  • 1983 Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
  • 1984 12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster
  • 1984 23rd Summer Olympics opens in LA
  • 1985 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
  • 1986 Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed
  • 1986 Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire v Lancashire
  • 1986 NY jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages
  • 1987 Ben & Jerry's & Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia
  • 1988 FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion
  • 1988 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president & parliament in March, 1989
  • 1988 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
  • 1988 Last US Playboy Club (Lansing Mich) closes
  • 1988 South African govt bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"
  • 1988 Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson & Curt Schilling
  • 1988 Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home
  • 1989 Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan
  • 1989 Phillies retire Steve Carlton's # 32
  • 1989 Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases
  • 1989 White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher & Sam Sosa
  • 1990 26th Curtis Cup: US wins 14-4
  • 1990 28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats USSR 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
  • 1990 South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference
  • 1991 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium (Mets beat Cubs 6-0)
  • 1991 Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7½ caret engagement ring
  • 1991 Yankee Stadium fans throw cups & blowup dolls at Jose Canseco
  • 1992 "Chinese Coffee" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 18 perfs
  • 1992 Evgueni Sadovyi swims world record/OR 400m freestyle (3:45.00)
  • 1992 Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguys), arrested for narcotic possession
  • 1993 Cin Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession
  • 1993 Walter Koenig (Checkov-Star Trek) suffers a mild heart attack
  • 1993 Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible
  • 1994 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin
  • 1994 Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8½ year jail sentenced
  • 1994 H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election
  • 1994 India army kills 27 Moslem militants
  • 1994 Jesse Timmedequas, rapes & murders Megan Kanka, 7 (Megan's Law)
  • 1994 Parliamentary election in Aruba
  • 1995 Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis
  • 1995 Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14
  • 1997 US Senior Golf Open ends at Olympia Fields GC Ill