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618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty's rule over China.
860 - Swedish Vikings attack Constantinople
1155 - Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederick I Barbarossa Roman-German Emperor
1178 - Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno
1178 - Five monks at Canterbury report explosion on moon (only known observation)
1264 - The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
1316 - Peace of Fexhe: prince-bishop Adolf II of Mark & Luikse towns
1529 - Blackfriars begin: Henry VIII & Catharina of Aragon
1538 - Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V & King French I
1541 - Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland
1574 - Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland
1580 - States of Utrecht forbid catholic worship
1583 - Richard Martin of London takes out first life insurance policy, on William Gibbons; premium was £383
1629 - Sea battle at Dungeness: Piet Heyn beat the Dunkirkers, commerce raiders in the service of the Spanish Monarchy
1639 - Treaty of Berwick: Ends the First Bishops' War between England and Scotland
1643 - Skirmish at Chalgrove Field: Prince Rupert parliamentary armies
1682 - William Penn founds Philadelphia, US
1757 - Battle at Kolin Bohemia: Austrian army beats Prussia
1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.

English Philosopher and Founder of Pennsylvania William Penn 1778 - British Redcoats evacuate Philadelphia
1779 - French fleet occupies St Vincent
1812 - War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain
1815 - Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and France defeated by British forces under Wellington and Prussian troops under Blucher
1821 - Opera "Der Freischutz" is produced (Berlin)
1822 - Part of US-Canadian boundary determined
1822 - Slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey & Peter Poyas arrested in SC
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-Africa
1837 - Spain gets new Constitution
1863 - After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg
1864 - At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults
1872 - Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
1873 - Susan B Anthony fined $100 for voting for President
1879 - W H Richardson, a black inventor, patents the children's carriage
1887 - The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.

Naturalist Charles Darwin 1892 - Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
1894 - Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate
1898 - 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ
1898 - 4th US Golf Open: Fred Herd shoots a 328 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass
1900 - Empress Douairiere orders I-Ho-Chuan (Boxers) to kill all foreigners
1900 - Gen Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy
1903 - 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in SF; arrives NY 3-mo later
1906 - 6th Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Wimbledon (5-0)
1908 - Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the Kasato-Maru ship
1909 - Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women
1910 - 16th US Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 298 at Phila Cricket Club PA
1915 - 21st US Golf Open: John Travers shoots a 297 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1916 - Yanks score in every inning but 8th to beat Indians 19-3 in baseball
1924 - Pope Pius XI's encyclical Maximam gravissimamque
1926 - Theodor Lessing laid-off "because he is a Jew" in Hanover
1927 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000 m: 5:24.6
1928 - Amelia Earhart becomes 1st female to fly across Atlantic Ocean
1930 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held.
1934 - US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
1936 - 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI
1936 - Polish parliament gives pres Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power

Baseball Great Babe Ruth 1938 - Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season
1940 - Gen Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers
1940 - German occupiers slaughter cattle, pigs & chickens
1940 - Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"
1941 - Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - Turkey signs peace treaty with nazi-Germany
1942 - Bernard W Robinson, becomes 1st black ensign in US Navy
1942 - Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m
1943 - SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau
1944 - Farewell concert of Willem Mengelberg in Paris
1944 - U-767 sinks
1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) charged with treason
1946 - Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
1947 - Cincinnati Red Ewell Blackwell no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0
1948 - American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights

Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill 1948 - National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time
1948 - Phillies pitching great Robin Roberts debut, loses 2-0 to Pirates
1948 - UN Commission on Human Rights adopts Intl Decl of Human Rights
1949 - "Along Fifth Avenue" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 180 perfs
1950 - Cleve Indians score 14 runs in 1st inning, beat A's 21-2
1951 - De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election
1951 - In South Africa, the Suppression of Communism Act commences.
1953 - Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president
1953 - USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen
1953 - Eugene Stephens is 1st to get 3 hits & Red Sox score 17 runs in 1 Inning (7th) Red Sox beat Detroit 23-3
1954 - Pierre Mendèsforms French government
1955 - "3 for Tonight" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 85 performances
1956 - Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as British leave Suez Canal
1957 - John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as PM of Canada
1959 - 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
1959 - Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.
1960 - "Destry Rides Again" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 472 perfs

Golfer Arnold Palmer 1960 - 60th US Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots 280 at Cherry Hills in Denver
1960 - Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66)
1960 - Real Madrid wins 5th Europe Cup 1
1961 - CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke
1961 - KBMT TV channel 12 in Beaumont, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1961 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1963 - 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school
1964 - African Groundnut Council forms in Dakar
1967 - 67th US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 275 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1967 - Houston Don Wilson no-hits Atlanta Braves, 2-0
1967 - Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California
1967 - Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
1968 - Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing
1972 - 72nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 290 at Pebble Beach Calif
1972 - BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118
1972 - West Germany wins soccer world championship
1972 - US Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws
1973 - NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants
1974 - Gaston Thorn forms Luxembourg government
1975 - Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs in a Red Sox 15-1 victory over Tigers
1975 - Gary Gilmour takes 6-14 in Cricket World Cup semi v England
1975 - NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) premieres on radio
1976 - A Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for £340,000
1976 - St Louis Cards Lou Brock & Hector Cruz hit inside-the-park HRs
1976 - Bowie Kuhn voids A's sales, totaling $35 million, of Joe Rudi & Rollie Fingers to Red Sox, & Vida Blue to Yankees
1977 - Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
1977 - Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten & Paul Cook, beaten & robbed by London pub
1977 - Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
1978 - 78th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 285 at Cherry Hill CC in Denver
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic
1978 - Victor de la Torre wins Peru election
1979 - Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon
1979 - Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in Cricket World Cup upset
1979 - US Pres Carter & Soviet Pres Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty limiting nuclear wepons
1980 - Dutch 2nd Chamber joins oil boycott of South Africa
1980 - Mrs Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec
1981 - Kimberley Ann Smith, of NC, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
1981 - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on US Supreme Court)
1981 - Test cricket debut of Terry Alderman, v England at Trent Bridge
1981 - Vaccine to prevent hoof & mouth disease announced
1981 - The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.
1982 - ABC's All Talk radio network expands to 22 stations
1982 - Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
1983 - "Pump Boys & Dinettes" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 573 perfs
1983 - 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st US woman
1983 - IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC
1984 - 84th US Golf Open: Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a 276 at Winged Foot GC NY
1985 - Boston Red Sox Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs
1986 - De Havilland Twin Otter & Bell 206 helicopter collide, kills 25
1986 - Don Sutton becomes 19th pitcher to win 300 games
1986 - Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55)
1986 - Papua New Guinea score 9-455 in 60 overs v Gibraltar, ICC Trophy
1986 - US House of Representatives approves Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa
1987 - Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon
1988 - Jeff Hamilton, hits 8,000th Dodger home run
1989 - "Starmites" closes at Criter Ctr SR Theater NYC after 60 performances
1989 - 89th US Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Oak Hill CC NY
1989 - Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion
1989 - Laura Davies wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1990 - 1st ever lose for Cameroon in Soccer World Cup, USSR-4 Cameroon-0
1990 - 1st sudden death US Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin

Russian President Boris Yeltsin 1991 - Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia, arrives in US
1991 - Mud storm in Antofagasta Chile, kills 80
1991 - SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky's cancerous left arm is amputated
1991 - Yankee pitchers pick-off 3 Toronto Blue Jays
1992 - Ottawa Senators make goalie Peter Sidorkiewicz their 1st draft
1992 - Tampa Bay Lightning make goalie Wendell Young their 1st draft
1993 - Expo's Dennis Martinez is 92nd to win 200 games
1993 - Toru Takemitsu's "Archipelago" premieres in Aldeburgh England
1994 - Aleksander Popov swims world record 100m free style (48.21 sec)
1994 - Gay Games open in NYC
1994 - US ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup
1995 - 95th US Golf Open: Corey Pavin shoots a 280 at Shinnecock Hills NY
1995 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
1996 - Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
2000 - 100th US Golf Open: Tiger Woods shoots a 272 at Pebble Beach, California

Golfer Tiger Woods 2001 - Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.
2001 - 101st US Golf Open: Retief Goosen shoots a 276 at Southern Hills CC OK
2003 - Google launches AdSense, a program that enables website publishers to serve ads targeted to the specific content of their individual web pages, many of which like HistoryOrb.com go on to start their own publishing businesses
2006 - The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
2006 - 106th US Golf Open: Geoff Ogilvy shoots a 285 at Winged Foot GC NY
2012 - 15 people are killed and 40 injured in a suicide attack in Baquba, Iraq
2013 - 31 people are killed and 60 are injured by two suicide bombings in al-Qahira, Baghdad
2013 - 27 people are killed and 30 are injured by a suicide bomb in Sher Garh, Pakistan
2013 - Russia passes a law banning foreign same-sex couples from adopting children

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