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0388 Battle at Aquileja: Emperor Theodosius beats emperor Magnus Maximis

0754 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

1708 Monarch Amengkurat II [Sunan Mas] of Mataram gives himself up to VOC

1717 Prussian king Frederik Willem I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs

1741 Capt Bering discovers Mount St Elias, Alaska

1742 Prussia & Austria sign peace treaty

1808 Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey

1821 Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)

1830 Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe

1849 Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY

1851 Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph

1858 1st use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made by

1858 Nadar takes 1st 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 GA (Ezra Church)-second sortie US700 CS4642

1866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US

1868 14th Amendment ratified, grants citizenship to ex-slaves

1882 Opera "Parsifal" is produced (Beirut)

1883 Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000

1886 English Salisbury govt forms

1887 NY Ranger center Mark Messier signs with Vancouver for $20M for 3 yrs

1896 City of Miami incorporated

1898 Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender

1898 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Retired Colourman"(BG)

1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut

1906 Yankees turn triple-play, beat Cleveland 6-4

1911 96шF (35.6шC) in De Bilt Netherlands

1913 12th Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)

1914 Foxtrot 1st 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 (NYC) protesting lynchings

1915 US forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924

1917 Silent Parade in NYC to protest murders of blacks in race riots

1919 Vrije Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam

1926 US & Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal

1928 9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam

1929 Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Mich)

1930 114шF (46шC), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record)

1931 Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem

1931 White Sox score 11 in 8th to beat Yankees 14-12

1932 Battle between unemployed war veterans & federal troops, 4 die

1932 Pres Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment

1933 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NYC

1933 NFL divides into (2) 5 team divisions

1933 Spain recognizes the USSR

1934 118шF (48шC), Orofino, Idaho (state record)

1935 Belgium's Romain Maes, wins Tour de France

1937 Eddie Paynter scores 322 for Lancashire against Sussex

1937 Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire

1938 34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead

1938 Bradman scores 202 Aust v Somerset, 225 mins, 32 fours

1939 5th Dutch govt of Colijn falls

1940 Radio Orange, London begins

1940 Yankee Charlie Keller hits 3 HRs to beat White Sox 10-9

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 Pres FDR announces end of coffee rationing in US

1944 Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy

1944 US 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France

1945 Japanese premier Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender

1945 US Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die

1945 US Senate ratifies UN charter 89-2

1947 Iuliu Maniu's Boer party becomes forbidden in Romania

1948 I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die

1951 "Kiss Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 1077 perfs

1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released

1952 Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell, as Cincinnati Reds manager

1954 Ernest Blochs 4th string quartet, premieres

1957 Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance (Steve Allen Show)

1957 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open

1957 White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game

1958 Baltimore Colts wins NFL-championship

1959 Great-Britain starts using postal codes

1959 Hawaii's 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress

1960 Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate

1962 19 die in a train crash in Steelton Pa

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 LBJ sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam (total of 125,000)

1967 Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) (England) closes down

1971 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning

1971 Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie"

1972 39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162)

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 & Lousma) launched

1974 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck (Belem, Brazil)

1974 Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic

1976 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake

1976 8.2 & 7.4 earthquake devastate Tangsha, China (240-750,000 die)

1976 Eldon Joersz & Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph

1976 White Sox John Odom (5 inn) & Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's

1977 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska

1977 Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks

1977 Test Cricket debut of Ian Botham v Aust Trent Bridge, 5-74 1st innings

1978 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in NY

1978 At Old Timer's Game it's announced Martin will again manage Yankees

1978 Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for 1st time

1978 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1979 Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 HR game

1979 France performs nuclear Test

1980 Peru adopts constitution, Fernando BelaЈnde Terry becomes president

1983 AL Pres Lee MacPhail threw out umpire's decision & allows

1983 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1983 George Brett's 2 run HR against Yanks on July 24 (pine tar game)

1983 NASA launches Telstar-3A

1984 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles

1985 13th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley

1985 Alan GarcЎa sworn in as president of Peru

1985 L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, & H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame

1986 Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed

1986 NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated

1987 42nd US 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 1st 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

1988 Yanks' Tommy John makes 3 errors on 1 play yet beats Brewers 16-3

1989 Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run HRs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 HRs in an inning. Also ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning

1989 Cards' Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50

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

1990 Blackout hits Chicago

1991 "Gypsy" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 105 performances

1991 12th US Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus

1991 29th Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Nottingham England (2-1)

1991 Buffalo Bills beat Phila 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

1992 Ground breaking of Fla Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium

1993 Mariner Ken Griffey Jr is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games

1994 Baseball players decide to strike on Aug 12, 1994

1994 Last steel beam is placed on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

1994 Texas Ranger Kenny Rogers pitches baseball's 12th perfect game

1995 Art Modell's rep begins secrets talks to move team to Baltimore

1996 NY Yankee Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th HR

1996 Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Micelob Light Heartland Golf Classic

1997 Mark Messier signs with Vancouver Canucks

1997 Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion

2061 31st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

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