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451 - 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
843 - Vikings destroy Nantes
972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces; Mieszko I of Poland decisively defeated Odo I of Lusatia
1128 - Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa
1298 - Rindfleisch Persecutions - Jews of Ifhauben, Austria massacred
1314 - Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
1322 - Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time
1340 - In the Hundred Years War, English fleet destroys the French at the battle of Sluys
1374 - A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
1396 - Crusaders under Earl of Nevers reach Vienna
1397 - Sultan Bajezid I releases captured crusaders for ransom
1441 - Eton College founded by Henry VI
1472 - Zoe Paleologa departs Rome for Moscow
1497 - John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia)
1497 - Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London.
1509 - Henry VIII crowned King of England
1522 - Battle of La Bicocca: a combined French and Venetian was decisively defeated by a Spanish-Imperial and Papal army
1522 - Portuguese Antonio de Brita signs treaty island of Ternate Molukkas
1527 - Gustaaf I begins Reformation in Sweden, taking Catholic possessions
1529 - Zurich & catholic kantons sign Peace of Kappel
1535 - Anabaptists Protestants conquered & disbanded
1535 - Hessische troops occupy Munster
1540 - English King Henry VIII commands his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves, to leave the court
1572 - 5 clergymen of Enkhuizen, hanged
1597 - Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches Bantam, West Java
1610 - Battle of Klushino: King Sigismund II's Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army beats Russia & Sweden
1619 - Tsar Michail's father Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow
1647 - Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council
1648 - Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews & 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
1658 - French fleet recaptures Duinkerk
1662 - Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day)
1664 - The colony of New Jersey is founded.
1690 - King William III's army lands at Carrickfergus Ireland [OS=June 14]
1692 - Kingston, Jamaica, founded
1717 - 1st Free Masons' grand lodge founded in London

Evangelist John Wesley 1748 - The Kingswood School is opened by John Wesley and his brother Charles Wesley in Bristol. The school later moved to Bath.
1778 - David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia
1793 - 1st republican constitution in France adopted
1794 - Bowdoin College is founded in Maine, USA
1795 - US & Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty
1806 - British under Commodore Popham and Colonel Beresford reach Buenos Aires
1813 - Battle of Beaver Dam - British & Indian forces defeat US forces
1817 - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
1821 - Battle of Carabobo; Bolívar defeats royalists outside Caracas
1841 - Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx
1843 - Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside ghetto in Italy
1846 - Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished
1853 - Gadsden Purchase 29,670-square-mile (76,800 square km) from Mexico (now southern Arizona and New Mexico) for $10 million signed by President Franklin Pierce
1859 - Battle of Solferino, Northern Italy: a French Army under Napoleon III and Sardinian Army under Victor Emmanuel II overcame the Austrian Army under Emperor Franz Joseph I.
1861 - Battle of Mathias Point, VA-US attacks Confederate batteries
1861 - Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from Union
1863 - Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac
1866 - Second Battle at Custozza: the Austrian Imperial army, joined by the Venetian Army decisively defeated the Italian army, despite the Italians' strong numerical advantage.
1880 - First performance of "O Canada," the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
1881 - 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla, Mexico
1882 - NL expels umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty
1884 - John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention
1885 - British government of Salisbury forms
1885 - Samuel David Ferguson becomes 1st US black bishop
1894 - Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years
1894 - Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
1897 - Hail injures 26 in Topeka, Kansas
1898 - American troops drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas, Cuba
1900 - Dutch Social-Democratic Workers' party & Socialistenbond merge

Artist Pablo Picasso 1901 - 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris
1901 - Jewish National Fund starts
1902 - King Edward VII develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
1903 - Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist
1908 - Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71 (.276)
1909 - 15th US Golf Open: George Sargent shoots a 290 at Englewood GC NJ
1910 - 50th British Golf Open: James Braid shoots a 299 at St Andrews Scot
1911 - 17th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 307 at Chicago GC in Ill
1913 - 53rd British Golf Open: J H Taylor shoots a 304 at Hoylake Hoylake
1914 - King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent
1916 - Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract.
1917 - Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol
1920 - Chuvash Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR
1922 - AFPA changes name to NFL, Chicago Staleys become Chicago Bears
1923 - Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied

Golfer Walter Hagen 1924 - 59th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Hoylake Hoylake
1928 - 32nd US Golf Open: Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields Ill
1928 - With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person crews on trolley operations in Canada.
1930 - 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
1930 - Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium
1931 - USSR & Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty
1932 - Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand
1936 - Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inn, Yanks beat Browns 18-4
1936 - Mary McLeod Bethune named director of Negro Affairs in Natl Youth Adm
1938 - 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
1939 - Pan Am's 1st US to England flight
1940 - France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II
1941 - Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated
1941 - Germans advanced into Russia & took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk & Kaunas
1942 - US Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered

Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio 1942 - Africa Korps invades Egypt
1943 - Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg
1945 - Schermerhorn government forms
1945 - The Moscow Victory Parade takes place.
1946 - 11.72" (29.77 cm) of rainfall at Mellen Wisc (state 24-hr record)
1946 - Georges Bidault elected premier of France
1947 - 29th PGA Championship: Jim Ferrier at Plum Hollow CC Detroit
1947 - Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold
1947 - Jackie Robinson swipes home for 1st of 19 times in his career
1947 - Jim Ferrier wins PGA golf tournament
1948 - Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey
1948 - Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade
1949 - "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)
1949 - A M de Jong's murderer, Ton van Gog, arrested in Scheveningen, Netherlands
1949 - Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board

Baseball Player Jackie Robinson 1950 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Western Women's Golf Open
1950 - French government of Bidault resigns
1950 - NY Giant Wes Westrum hits 3 HRs & a triple
1951 - Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations
1953 - KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" closes at Imperial NYC after 229 perf
1955 - Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st HR (off Billy Hoeff)
1956 - "Steve Allen Show" returns on NBC-TV
1956 - 2nd LPGA Championship won by Marlene Hagge
1956 - WISC TV channel 3 in Madison, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - "I Love Lucy" last airs on CBS-TV
1957 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States.
1960 - Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa v England Lord's
1961 - "Happiest Girl in the World" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 97 perfs
1961 - Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby"

TV Personality, Comedian and Composer Steve Allen 1961 - Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait
1962 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA J E McAuliffe Golf Tournament
1962 - Jack Reed's 22nd-inning HR wins longest NY Yankee game in history
1963 - 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
1963 - Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government
1963 - Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain
1964 - FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages
1964 - In South Africa, the 90-Days Act commences, providing for any person to be detained, without trial, for 90 days; further, the person could be re-arrested under the same law for another 90 days
1966 - Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die
1966 - Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
1967 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Sacerdotalis coelibatus
1967 - Zaire adopts constitution
1968 - 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post
1968 - Australia all out for 78 v England at Lord's
1968 - Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion
1968 - Jim Northrup hits 2 grand-slammers to help Tigers beat Cleve 14-3
1968 - Joe Frazier TKOs Manuel Ramos in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 - Resurrection City in Wash DC closed permanently
1970 - "Catch 22" opens in movie theaters
1970 - Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
1970 - Reds play final game at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, beat Giants 5-4
1970 - US Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1972 - "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6
1972 - Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of US (US Air Force)
1972 - Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair in Dem convention
1972 - Danie Malan, South African athlete, sets a new world record in the 1000m event in Munich
1973 - Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8"
1973 - Susie Berning wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
1974 - India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins
1974 - Steve Busby retires 1st 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batters retired
1975 - Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport NY, kills 113
1975 - Moon tremor perceived (hit by Taurid meteors)
1976 - 1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany
1976 - A Principal's office in Hlengisi Primary, Nyanga, outside Cape Town, South Africa, is burnt down; part of the broader resistance against the oppressive new Bantu Education policy of Afrikaans as a teaching medium in their schools

39th US President Jimmy Carter 1977 - IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
1977 - Josiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF)
1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1979 - Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland & steals his 1st base
1980 - Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million
1982 - Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
1982 - Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16)
1982 - Soyuz T-6 Launch (USSR)
1982 - US Supreme Court rules president can't be sued for actions in office
1983 - 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB
1983 - Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters
1984 - Joe Morgan sets career HR mark for 2nd basemen with #265
1984 - Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1985 - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth
1985 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F
1986 - Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
1986 - US Senate approves "tax reform"
1986 - In Britain, Foreign Office Minister Lynda Chalker, meets Oliver Tambo, president of the African National Congress to discuss means of ending Apartheid without violence
1987 - CFL's Montreal Alouettes fold
1987 - Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consec win streak
1988 - Cleve pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves
1988 - Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak
1989 - Cards Vince Coleman steals record 39th & 40th consecutive bases
1990 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1991 - NHL adopts instant-replay & tenth of second clock in final minute

The Pianoman Billy Joel 1992 - Billy Joel gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville High School at 43
1992 - Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball
1992 - Eddie Antar, CEO (Crazy Eddies), $74 m stock fraud caught in Israel
1992 - John Gotti begins life sentence in jail
1993 - Arab terrorist group planning bombing of Holland and Lincoln Tunnels caught
1993 - Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.
1994 - 1st French "all news" TV (LCI) begins broadcasting
1994 - Jeff Bagwell of Astros is 28th to hit 2 HRs in an inning
1995 - Stanley Cup: NJ Devils sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
1995 - South African Springboks beat New Zealand in Rugby Wold Cup final match
1997 - Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom
1997 - USAF reports Roswell 'space aliens' were dummies
1997 - Mark McGwire hits a 538 foot home run
1997 - Seat Mariner Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Oakland A's but loses
2001 - 47th LPGA Championship won by Karrie Webb
2002 - The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
2004 - Capital punishment is declared unconstitutional in New York
2007 - The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours.
2010 - John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in tennis history.
2012 - Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood becomes President of Egypt
2012 - Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time
2013 - The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Boston Bruins to win the NHL Stanly Cup Finals

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