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30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
527 - Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire
607 - Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
649 - Pope Martinus I chosen successor of Theodorus I [or 8/7]
860 - Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German & Lotharius II
902 - Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily
1021 - Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest
1086 - Results of the Domesday inquiry presented to William the Conqueror in Salisbury (the date of compilation and the Great Domesday are historically contestable)
1177 - Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I & Pope Alexander III

Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar 1203 - Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium
1291 - Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)
1485 - Henry Tudor's army sails to England (future Henry VII)
1498 - Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela)
1589 - Assination of French King Henry III by friar Jacques Clément
1619 - 1st African Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia
1626 - Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal
1628 - Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism
1664 - Battle at St Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Kiprulu

Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus 1690 - Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus of Savoy
1711 - Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov
1714 - Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England
1715 - First Doggett's Coat and Badge race (Waterman's race) held on Thames River (London Bridge to Chelsea)
1732 - Foundations laid for Bank of England
1759 - Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France
1774 - Joseph Priestley, English theologian and chemist author discovers oxygen
1780 - Sweden declares neutrality
1781 - British army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia

King George I 1785 - Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
1789 - US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
1793 - France becomes 1st country to use the metric system
1794 - Whiskey Rebellion begins in western Pennsylvania
1798 - Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet
1812 - Rare tornado hits Westchester County NY
1814 - Belgian King Willem I accepts blame in Southern defeat
1820 - London's Regent's Canal opens.
1828 - Bolton and Leigh Railway opens to freight traffic.
1831 - London Bridge opens to traffic
1832 - The Black Hawk War ends.
1834 - Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire - Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into effect

Naturalist Charles Darwin 1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin returns to Bahia Brazil
1838 - Apprenticeship system abolished in most of the British Empire. Former slaves no longer indentured to former owners.
1840 - Labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1842 - Rotherhithe Tunnel under the Thames opens
1842 - Lombard Street Riot erupts
1852 - SF Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist
1855 - Castle Clinton in NYC opens as 1st US receiving station for immigrants
1861 - Brazil recognizes Confederacy
1863 - Battle of Little Rock, Arkansas; start of Chattanooga campaign
1863 - Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign
1864 - Battle of Petersburg, VA
1867 - Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tenn)
1869 - 1st voyage down Colorado River
1870 - Irish Land Act gives rights to tenants of landlords in Ireland.
1873 - SF's 1st cable car begins service
1876 - Colorado becomes 38th state of the Union
1881 - US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, SF Bay
1883 - A papyrus offered to British Museum for £10,000 (forgery)
1883 - Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights
1883 - Inland postal service begins in Great Britain
1886 - Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand
1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi
1893 - Henry Perky & William Ford patent shredded wheat
1896 - George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (NY to England)
1901 - Burials within San Francisco City limits prohibited
1902 - Building begins on Dutch public housing
1902 - Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia (100 die)
1903 - 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
1906 - Brooklyn Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th
1907 - Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF
1907 - Signal Corps of US army starts aircraft division
1907 - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island, in Poole Harbour, Dorset
1909 - British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed
1911 - Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point
1914 - British fleet reaches Scapa Flow

Absolute monarch Nicholas II 1914 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany declares war on his nephew Tsar Nicholas II (WW I) of Russia in WWI
1914 - France & Germany mobilize their troops at outbreak of WWI
1914 - Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enters Luxembourg on outbreak of WWI
1916 - Hawaii National Park forms
1917 - Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT
1918 - British troops enter Vladivostok
1918 - Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings
1919 - Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam
1919 - Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek
1920 - Papendrecht soccer team forms
1920 - Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia
1922 - Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard
1925 - Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk & Netherland East-Indies
1926 - Battles between Druze & French in Damascus
1926 - Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona
1927 - Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards

Baseball Great Babe Ruth 1928 - Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 & is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace
1933 - Carl Hubbell sets record of consecutive scoreless innings (45 1/3)
1933 - Death penality for anti-fascists in Germany
1933 - Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrests Sukarno
1933 - NRA (National Recovery Administration) forms
1936 - Adolf Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
1936 - Benjamin E Mays named president of Morehouse College
1941 - Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division
1941 - NY Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St L 0)
1941 - The first Jeep is produced.

Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1942 - Deurne soccer team forms
1942 - German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers
1942 - Race riots in Harlem, New York
1943 - Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw
1943 - Race riot in Harlem NYC
1943 - Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 & U-383
1944 - Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East
1944 - Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested
1944 - General Montgomery takes command of 12th & 21st army
1944 - US 90th division occupies St Hilaire-du-Harcourt
1944 - US troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir

Jewish Victim & Diarist of the Holocaust Anne Frank 1944 - Uprising in Warsaw
1945 - Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's
1945 - Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx)
1945 - SVBO soccer team forms in Barger-Oosterveld
1946 - US President Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
1947 - "Medium & The Telephone" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 211 perfs
1947 - Valleivogels soccer team forms in Scherpenzeel
1948 - The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
1950 - 1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons)

33rd US President Harry Truman 1950 - American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule
1950 - Guam Organic Act by establishes Guam as US territory
1950 - King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King
1951 - David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election
1953 - California introduces sales tax (for education)
1953 - Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba
1953 - KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, MO (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland

Cuban President Fidel Castro 1953 - Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief
1954 - Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France
1954 - WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - In South Africa, The Natives Resettlement Act empowers the Government to remove Africans from any area within and next to the magisterial district of Johannesburg; less than a year after the Act was passed Sophiatown residents were forcefully removed to Meadowlands in Soweto
1955 - 1st microgravity research begins
1955 - Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca government
1955 - WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - 1st commercial building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM)
1957 - Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln)
1957 - Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10")
1957 - US & Canada create North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
1958 - US 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years)
1958 - US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st begins transit of North Pole "operation Sunshine"
1959 - New Continental baseball league formed

Pope John XXIII 1959 - Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia
1959 - WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 - Aretha Franklins 1st recording session
1960 - Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
1960 - Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"
1960 - Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
1961 - Benaud rips through England team for Aussie win at Old Trafford
1961 - German DR limits traffic to West Berlin
1961 - New SF Hall of Justice opens
1961 - Whitney Young Jr named executive director of National Urban League
1962 - Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0
1962 - Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana
1963 - Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale
1963 - Germany FR annexes Elten village
1963 - WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 - ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation
1964 - Beatles' single "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1965 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1966 - Charles Whitman wounds 31 & kills 16 at University of Texas
1967 - Izaak Samkalden becomes mayor of Amsterdam
1967 - WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins
1968 - Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo
1968 - WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 - The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
1969 - 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival
1969 - 36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208)
1969 - Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars
1970 - EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wi
1970 - KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game
1971 - CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII

Singer-Songwriter George Harrison 1971 - George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC
1971 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1972 - 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
1972 - Nate Colbert of SD Padres hits record tying 5 HRs in a double header
1973 - H J Witteveen appointed as director of IMF
1973 - Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park
1974 - Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr J" Erving to NY Nets
1975 - 38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord
1975 - 41st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 21, All-Stars 14 (54,103)
1975 - Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of NY Yankees
1975 - Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations
1975 - CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
1976 - 21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada
1976 - Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colo on Route 34, kills 139
1976 - Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20)
1977 - SF Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer
1977 - Former Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he was flying in Los Angeles
1978 - Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games
1978 - Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead
1978 - Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL)
1979 - Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms government in Portugal
1980 - Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record
1980 - Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon (2:11:03
1980 - Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland.
1981 - MTV premieres at 12:01 AM
1981 - Poland premier Jagielski resigns
1982 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1982 - Greg Louganis, US becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives
1982 - H Aaron, F Robinson, T Jackson, & H Chandler inducted in Hall of Fame
1982 - Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut
1982 - Petra Schneider swims world record 400m medley (4:36.10)
1983 - New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England
1985 - 15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)
1985 - Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time
1985 - Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74
1986 - Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000
1986 - Cleveland sets AL attendance record for twi-night doubleheader, 65,934
1986 - Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma
1987 - Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada

Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson 1987 - Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 - Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America
1987 - In New Zealand, the Maori Language Act comes into force, making te reo Māori an official language of New Zealand; it can now be used in some legal proceedings.
1988 - Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon
1988 - Rush Limbaugh begins his national radio show.
1989 - Australia take 3-0 series lead over England to regain Cricket Ashes
1990 - "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 149 perfs
1990 - Indians' Alex Cole sets club record with 5 stolen bases in one game
1990 - Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
1990 - Soyuz TM-10 launches
1990 - Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs

Actress and Inventor Hedy Lamarr 1991 - Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida
1991 - Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires
1992 - "Salome" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 9 performances
1992 - NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres
1992 - USA/USSR Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica
1993 - "In the Summer House" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 25 perfs
1993 - "She Loves Me" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
1993 - Missie Berteott wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1993 - Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY

Soccer player Diego Maradona 1993 - Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack
1994 - 99.9°F (37.7°C) in Berlin-Dahlem: record
1994 - The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour
1994 - Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed
1995 - Westinghouse purchases CBS-TV network
1996 - M2, MTV's second TV channel is launched
1998 - -8] Gay & Lesbian Games #5 open in Amsterdam
2001 - An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia.
2001 - Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
2001 - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
2004 - A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.
2007 - The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
2012 - Typhoon Saola kills elven people and displaces over 150,000 in the Philippines
2012 - 8 Women's badminton doubles players are disqualified from the 2012 summer Olympics for "not using one's best efforts to win a match"

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe 2013 - Robert Mugabe continues to maintain power after winning 142 out of 210 seats in the Zimbabwean election

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