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1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song.
1381 - Richard II in England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
1535 - Karel V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis
1565 - Catharina de Medici & Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism
1597 - At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands
1615 - Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis
1623 - 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against Cicely Jordan, he loses
1634 - Russia & Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov
1642 - 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
1645 - Battle of Naseby, Leicestershire: "New Model Army" under Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beats royalists
1658 - Battle at Dunes: English & French fleet beat Spanish
1673 - Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
1775 - US Army founded
1777 - Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag
1789 - Capt William Bligh reaches Timor
1797 - Napoleon forms Ligurian Republic
1800 - Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria
1807 - Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Prussia (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1821 - Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.

Inventor Charles Babbage 1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables".
1834 - Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine
1834 - Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
1839 - First Henley Regatta held (it became the Henley Royal Regatta in 1851)
1841 - 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
1846 - Belgian Liberal Party forms
1846 - California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma, declaring independence from Mexico
1847 - Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner
1850 - Fire destroys part of San Francisco
1861 - Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellan's advance
1863 - Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia
1864 - US Union warship USS Kearsarge appears off Cherbourg
1870 - All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games
1872 - Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
1876 - 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Phila Athletics)

French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte 1876 - California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
1880 - 14th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:47
1881 - Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Mass)
1898 - France signs Niger Convention
1900 - Hawaiian Territorial Government begins
1900 - The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
1900 - Having been annexed to the USA on 12 August 1898, Hawaii is constituted as an organised territory
1901 - 1st golf championship is played
1904 - Dutch troops occupy Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants
1906 - Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
1907 - Government of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers
1907 - Norway adopts female suffrage for middle class women only in parliamentary elections
1908 - Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major warships.
1917 - 1st German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East London
1917 - Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
1919 - 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Newfoundland
1922 - 5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa
1922 - Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament
1922 - Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore
1923 - Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
1924 - Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe & Maurice Tate v South Africa
1924 - WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY
1926 - 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (6-1 6-0)

31st US President Herbert Hoover 1928 - Republican National Convention, meeting in KC, nominates Herbert Hoover for President
1929 - Prussia & Vatican sign Concord
1930 - VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht
1931 - French "St Philbert" overturns off St Nazaire France, drowns 450
1931 - Reinhard Heydrich's 1st meeting with Himmler
1932 - German government of von Papen forms
1933 - Lou Gehrig & Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games
1934 - Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet in Vienna
1934 - Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City
1934 - WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air
1935 - Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends
1936 - Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens
1938 - Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
1938 - Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
1938 - Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)

Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1940 - Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there)
1940 - German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral
1940 - German forces occupied Paris during WW II
1941 - Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS
1941 - Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia
1942 - 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct
1942 - Anne Frank begins her diary
1942 - French government of Reynaud resigns
1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released Thumper's 1st job
1944 - 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan
1944 - General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France
1946 - Canadian Library Association established
1948 - Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1949 - State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor
1949 - WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting

French President Charles de Gaulle 1951 - "Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater NYC for 37 performances
1951 - 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
1952 - 52nd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas
1952 - Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings
1952 - General strike in Tunisia
1952 - Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2)
1952 - Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub USS Nautilus (4th to be named Nautilus)
1952 - Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss
1953 - Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal
1953 - Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis Tenn
1953 - Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia
1953 - Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight
1954 - Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge
1955 - Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1956 - "New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 perfs

Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley 1957 - 42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis, Illinois (state record)
1957 - Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ
1958 - 58th US Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa
1958 - British parachutists lands on Cyprus
1959 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1961 - 106°F, hottest temperature in SF
1962 - Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, murders Anna Slesers, his first victim.
1962 - The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris - later becoming the European Space Agency.
1963 - NY Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR
1963 - Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days
1964 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1965 - Beatles release album "Beatles VI"
1965 - Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses in 11, 1-0
1965 - John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published
1966 - Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured

Musician and Beatle John Lennon 1966 - Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball
1967 - Mariner 5 Launch (Venus Flyby)
1967 - Steve Allen Show" premieres on CBS-TV
1967 - USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit
1968 - Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing
1969 - John & Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show
1969 - Oakland As' Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7
1970 - Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight
1972 - Hurricane Agnes kills 117
1973 - 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe
1974 - Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings
1975 - 45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61)
1975 - Janis Ian releases "At 17"
1975 - USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
1976 - "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication)

TV Personality, Comedian and Composer Steve Allen 1976 - 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4
1978 - Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR
1978 - Sierra Leone adopts constitution
1979 - Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup v England, in 40 3 overs
1979 - NY Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record
1979 - Rock group "Little Feat" disbands
1980 - Theme From NY, NY by Frank Sinatra hits #32
1981 - 27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1981 - No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl
1982 - Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict
1983 - 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx
1984 - Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members
1985 - "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV
1985 - Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Balt Orioles
1985 - Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847

Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra 1987 - 41st NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
1987 - 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor
1987 - Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1988 - Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her
1989 - Ground breaking begins in Minn on world's largest mall
1989 - Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams
1989 - Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II (honorary knighthood)
1989 - Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame
1989 - Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman
1990 - 44th NBA Championship: Det Pistons beat Por Trailblazers, 4 games to 1
1990 - Date of the events in the movie Mr Destiny
1990 - NL announces plans to expand from 12 to 14 teams for 1993 season
1990 - Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional
1991 - "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens
1991 - Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC

US President & Actor Ronald Reagan 1991 - Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands
1992 - 10th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton
1992 - 46th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Port Trailblazers, 4 games to 2
1992 - Anne-Marie Palli wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1992 - Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female US poet laureate
1992 - Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan's NL mark by taking part in his 1,305th career double play
1993 - Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth
1993 - Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey
1994 - Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 3
1995 - 49th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets sweep Orlando Magic in 4 games
1995 - Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win
1996 - "Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released
1996 - Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire v Indians
1998 - "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show
1998 - World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany
1998 - 52nd NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz, 4 games to 2
2000 - 34th Country Weekly Presents the TNN Music Awards: George Strait & Faith Hill wins
2001 - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
2005 - Asafa Powell of Jamaica sets a new Men's 100 meters world record of 9.77 at the Athens Olympic Stadium
2007 - 61st NBA Championship: San Antonio Spurs beat Cleveland Cavaliers, 4 games to 0
2009 - 63rd NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Orlando Magic, 4 games to 1
2009 - 55th LPGA Championship won by Anna Nordqvist
2012 - An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16
2012 - The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10 year old girl
2013 - Hassan Rouhani is elected President of Iran
2013 - Massive flooding occurs in northern India killing up to 10,000 people

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