| 1054 |
Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days)
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| 1187 |
Battle of Hittin (Tiberias): Saladin defeats Reinoud of Chƒtillon
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| 1301 |
Battle at Breukelen: Holland vs Lichtenberg
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| 1415 |
Angelo Correr becomes Pope Gregory XII
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| 1453 |
41 Jewish martyrs burned at stake at Breslau
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| 1610 |
Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russian & Sweden
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| 1636 |
City of Providence, Rhode Island form
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| 1652 |
Prince of Condé starts blood bath in Paris
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| 1653 |
British Barebones Parliament goes into session
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| 1672 |
States of Holland declares "Eternal Edict" void
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| 1693 |
Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army
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| 1708 |
Swedish King Karel XII beats Russians
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| 1754 |
George Washington gives Ft Necessity to France
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| 1776 |
Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain
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| 1779 |
French fleet occupies Grenada
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| 1789 |
1st US tariff act
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| 1796 |
1st Independence Day celebration is held
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| 1802 |
US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)
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| 1810 |
French troops occupy Amsterdam
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| 1817 |
Construction on Erie Canal begins
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| 1819 |
William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet
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| 1827 |
Slavery abolished in NY
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| 1828 |
Construction begins on B & O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR
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| 1829 |
Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)
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| 1831 |
"America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)" is 1st sung in Boston
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| 1832 |
"America" 1st sung publicly
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| 1836 |
Wisconsin Territory forms
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| 1845 |
Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
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| 1845 |
Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
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| 1861 |
In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops
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| 1861 |
Skirmish at Harper's Ferry, WV
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| 1862 |
Battle at Green River Ky (Morgan's Ohio Raid)
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| 1862 |
Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell
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| 1862 |
Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
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| 1862 |
R Morgan's: Tomkinsville, KY to Somerset, KY [->JUL 28]
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| 1863 |
Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
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| 1863 |
Failed Confederate assault on Helena Arkansas (640 casualties)
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| 1863 |
General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg
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| 1863 |
Skirmish at Smithburg, TN
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| 1863 |
Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
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| 1864 |
-9] Battle at Chattahoochee River, Georgia
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| 1865 |
1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published
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| 1866 |
Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying « of Portland, Me
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| 1868 |
Battle at Ueno: last Tokugawa armies defeated
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| 1873 |
Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
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| 1874 |
Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
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| 1875 |
White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
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| 1876 |
1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
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| 1876 |
Batholdi visits Bedloe Island, future home of his Statue of Liberty
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| 1879 |
Africaner Union forms by Rev SJ du Toit at Cape colony
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| 1879 |
Battle at Rorkes Drift: Britain ends attack on Zulus
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| 1881 |
Booker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
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| 1882 |
Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF
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| 1883 |
Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr
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| 1884 |
1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
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| 1884 |
Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
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| 1886 |
1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC
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| 1888 |
1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz
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| 1889 |
Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
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| 1892 |
James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
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| 1894 |
Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH
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| 1894 |
Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B Dole as president
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| 1895 |
Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
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| 1898 |
French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 die
|
| 1898 |
US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
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| 1903 |
Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message
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| 1905 |
Phila A's beat Boston Red Sox 4-2 in 20 inning game
|
| 1906 |
Gr Brit, France & Italy grant Independence to Ethiopia
|
| 1907 |
Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
|
| 1908 |
NY Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Phila Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn
|
| 1910 |
Jack Johnson KOs James J Jeffries in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
|
| 1911 |
105°F (41°C) at Vernon, Vermont (state record)
|
| 1911 |
106°F (41°C) at Nashua, New Hampshire (state record)
|
| 1911 |
Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 & ends a 40 game hit streak
|
| 1911 |
White Sox Ed Walsh stops Ty Cobb's 40-game hitting streak
|
| 1912 |
Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0
|
| 1912 |
Jack Johnson TKOs Jim Flynn in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
|
| 1913 |
37th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A F Wilding beats McLoughlin (86 63 10-8)
|
| 1914 |
1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
|
| 1918 |
Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa
|
| 1919 |
ADGB (Allgemeine Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund) party forms
|
| 1919 |
Cincinnati Reds are 10« games back in NL, & win World Series
|
| 1919 |
Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship
|
| 1923 |
Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbon in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
|
| 1925 |
44 die when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses
|
| 1925 |
45th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats J Borotra (63 63 46 86)
|
| 1925 |
Yanks Lefty Grove beats A's Herb Pennock 1-0 in 15 innings
|
| 1926 |
Baronie soccer team forms in Breda Neth
|
| 1926 |
NSDAP-party forms in Weimar
|
| 1927 |
Ir Sukarno forms PNI (Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia) in Batavia
|
| 1929 |
AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down
|
| 1930 |
43rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Elizabeth Ryan (62 62)
|
| 1931 |
1st fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium
|
| 1931 |
1st trailside museum opens in Cleveland Metroparks
|
| 1932 |
Bradman scores 260, a North American record, v Western Ontario
|
| 1933 |
Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
|
| 1934 |
Jordanians revolt in Amsterdam after reduction in employment
|
| 1936 |
49th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Hull Jacobs beats H Sperling (62 46 75)
|
| 1936 |
League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy
|
| 1938 |
1st game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5
|
| 1938 |
France-Turkish friendship treaty
|
| 1939 |
Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game
|
| 1939 |
Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day
|
| 1940 |
British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die
|
| 1940 |
German occupiers forbids anti-nazis speeches
|
| 1941 |
Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead
|
| 1941 |
Politburo of Yugoslav communist party reorganizes
|
| 1941 |
Howard Florey & Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate penicillin
|
| 1942 |
1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
|
| 1942 |
US air offensive against nazi-Germany begins
|
| 1944 |
1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy
|
| 1944 |
1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima
|
| 1944 |
Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen
|
| 1944 |
Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber
|
| 1946 |
Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die
|
| 1946 |
Philippines gains independence from US
|
| 1947 |
61st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom P Brown (61 63 62)
|
| 1950 |
Braves Sid Gordon ties season grand slam record with 4
|
| 1950 |
Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)
|
| 1952 |
66th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats J Drobny (46 62 63 62)
|
| 1952 |
Canadain Currency, Mint & Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted
|
| 1953 |
60th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats D Hart (86 75)
|
| 1953 |
Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas R kosi as premier of Hungary
|
| 1954 |
WMSL (WYUR, now WAFF) TV channel 48 in Huntsville, AL (ABC) begins
|
| 1954 |
West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern
|
| 1956 |
Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia
|
| 1956 |
US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland
|
| 1957 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase
|
| 1958 |
72nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A Cooper beats N Fraser (36 63 64 13-11)
|
| 1959 |
66th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Darlene Hard (64 63)
|
| 1959 |
America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
|
| 1959 |
Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
|
| 1960 |
6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
|
| 1960 |
America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
|
| 1960 |
Mickey Mantle is 18th to hit 300 HRs
|
| 1962 |
Island Records begins
|
| 1962 |
KIKU (now KHNL) TV channel 13 in Honolulu, HI (IND) 1st broadcast
|
| 1964 |
71st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats M Court (64 79 63)
|
| 1964 |
Beachboy's "I Get Around" reaches #1
|
| 1965 |
20th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Carol Mann
|
| 1966 |
Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos
|
| 1966 |
LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
|
| 1967 |
Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
|
| 1967 |
Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader
|
| 1968 |
Arthur Kopit's "Indians," premieres in London
|
| 1968 |
Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched (í 450 m)
|
| 1969 |
"Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in UK
|
| 1969 |
140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep & Janis Joplin
|
| 1969 |
76th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Ann Jones beats Billie J King (36 63 62)
|
| 1969 |
Italian Rumor govt resigns
|
| 1969 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
|
| 1970 |
100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ
|
| 1970 |
84th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Newcombe beats K Rosewall (57 63 62 36 61)
|
| 1970 |
Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio
|
| 1970 |
Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons
|
| 1971 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
|
| 1973 |
Alan Ayckbourne's "Absurd Person Singular," premieres in London
|
| 1973 |
CARICOM - Caribbean Community & Common Market, forms
|
| 1973 |
In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who "offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth"
|
| 1974 |
Mike Marshall goes 9-0 with 3 saves in 20 appearances in 30 days
|
| 1975 |
82nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (60 61)
|
| 1975 |
Bundy victim (?) Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah
|
| 1975 |
Fictional wedding date of Coneheads
|
| 1976 |
Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt NY
|
| 1976 |
Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
|
| 1976 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Bloomington Golf Classic Bicentennial
|
| 1977 |
Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher
|
| 1977 |
Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
|
| 1977 |
Red Sox wallop a major league-record 8 HRs beating Toronto 9-6
|
| 1978 |
Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order
|
| 1979 |
Algerian ex-president Ben Bella freed
|
| 1980 |
Nolan Ryan is 4th to strikeout 3,000
|
| 1981 |
95th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats B Börg (46 76 76 64)
|
| 1981 |
Clive Rice 105* out of 143 all out, Notts v Hants at Bournemouth
|
| 1982 |
10th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Sandra Haynie
|
| 1982 |
4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB
|
| 1982 |
96th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Connors beats J McEnroe (36 63 67 76 64)
|
| 1982 |
Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico
|
| 1982 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
|
| 1982 |
Yankees bat out of order against Indians in 1st inning
|
| 1983 |
NY Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox
|
| 1984 |
Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki
|
| 1984 |
Kallicharran gets 206 & 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy game
|
| 1984 |
NY Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000
|
| 1984 |
Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m
|
| 1985 |
Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
|
| 1987 |
94th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (75 63)
|
| 1987 |
Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission
|
| 1987 |
Imran Khan takes 300th Test Cricket wicket, only Pakistani to do so
|
| 1987 |
Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France
|
| 1988 |
102nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Becker (46 76 64 62)
|
| 1988 |
KC releases pitcher Dan Quisenberry, whose 238 saves are the 4th most
|
| 1988 |
US navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290
|
| 1989 |
14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide
|
| 1989 |
Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies)
|
| 1989 |
Red's Tom Browning is 3 outs away from his 2nd career perfect game when Phillie Dickie Thon doubles
|
| 1990 |
400 New Kids on the Block fans treated for heat exhaustion in Minn
|
| 1990 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
|
| 1990 |
Wrestler Brutus Beefcake injured during para-sailing
|
| 1990 |
2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner & Gettysburg Address
|
| 1992 |
99th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (62 61)
|
| 1992 |
John Phillips, rocker (Mamas & Papas), undergoes a liver transplant
|
| 1992 |
US actress Bobbie Eakes marries author David Stone
|
| 1993 |
107th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Courier (76 76 36 63)
|
| 1993 |
Brandie Burton wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
|
| 1993 |
Dave Winfield hits 442nd HR to move into 19th place
|
| 1993 |
Pilar Fort, crowned 25th Miss Black America
|
| 1993 |
Pizza Hut blimp deflates & lands safely on W 56th street in NYC
|
| 1994 |
Russian manned space craft TM-18, lands
|
| 1994 |
Rwandese Patriot Front occupies Kigali
|
| 1994 |
US loses to Brazil 1-0 in 1994 World Cup quarter finals
|
| 1995 |
Birmingham Barracudas play 1st CFL game (vs Winnipeg)
|
| 1996 |
Hot Mail, a free internet E-mail service begins
|
| 1997 |
US space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars
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