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• 363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by troops on the battlefield.
• 684 St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 1243 Battle of Köse Dağ: Mongols under Baiju defeat Seljuk army of Sultan Kaykhusraw II during Mongol attacks in north east Turkey

• 1284 According to the Lüneburg manuscript, a piper leads 130 children of Hamelin away
• 1409 Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V

1483 Duke of Gloucester succeeds as King Richard III of England after Parliament declared Edward V illegitimate

• 1539 Battle of Chausa: Afghan and northern Indian leader Sher Shah Suri defeats Mughal Emperor Humayun in Bihar in major battle involving 200,000 forces

1553 Christ's Hospital in London, England, granted a charter by King Edward VI to house and teach children of the poor

• 1593 Maurice, Prince of Orange conquers the Spanish-held Southern Dutch city of Geertruidenberg after a siege of two months, establishing his fame
• 1604 French expedition led by Pierre Dugua de Monts lands at Île Sainte-Croix to found settlement of Acadia in New France - later moved to Port Royal [1]
• 1630 Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde
• 1714 Spain & Netherlands sign peace and trade agreement
• 1718 Peter the Great's son, Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia dies from the effects of torture after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him
• 1721 Dr Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America
• 1723 After a lasting siege and bombardment by cannons, Baku surrenders to the Russians.

1794 Battle of Fleurus: Major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) with the first use of a reconnaissance balloon

• 1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow, though farmers fear effects of iron on soil
• 1807 Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die

1842 Ellen G. White is baptized by John Hobart in Portland, Maine

• 1843 Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
• 1848 1st pure food law enacted in US
• 1848 End of the June Days uprising in Paris by French workers

1857 The first 62 recipients receive the Victoria Cross for valor in the Crimean War from Queen Victoria

• 1862 Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulses Confederacy in Virginia
• 1862 Day 2 of 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville VA (Meadow Bridge)
• 1862 US Army of Virginia established under Gen John Pope
• 1870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens

1870 Richard Wagner's opera "Die Walküre" (The Valkyrie), the second in his Ring Cycle, premieres in Munich, featuring "Ride of the Valkyries"

• 1879 Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt

1894 Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto

• 1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
• 1900 Japan mobilizes 20,000 troops to help put down the Boxer uprising in China and to advance their long-term interest in gaining land and power in mainland Asia
• 1900 The Russian Tsar orders that Russian must be the official language of Finland, despite growing unrest within Finland and increasing international concern over Russia's behavior there

1902 Aga Khan III is appointed Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire

• 1907 Bolsheviks overthrows transport in Tiflis
• 1909 Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London
• 1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)

1912 Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna, Austria with Bruno Walter conducting the Vienna Philharmonic

1914 The Indian Relief Act, passes after a protracted period of Passive Resistance led by M.K. Gandhi; it abolishes a £3 tax imposed on Indians who had not renewed their indentures and recognizes "the validity of Indian customary marriages"

• 1915 Germany suppresses "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace
• 1916 Cleveland Indians experiment with numbers on jerseys in a game against Chicago WS; first time MLB players identified by numbers corresponding to those on scorecard
• 1917 First US troops arrive in France during World War I
• 1918 The Australian steamer Wimmera is sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf; 26 of its 151 passengers and crew were killed
• 1919 NY Daily News begins publishing
• 1922 The emergency decrees under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution are invoked by the government to deal with deteriorating economic conditions
• 1924 After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave Dominican Republic
• 1924 Theatrical revue "Ziegfeld Follies of 1924", featuring Billie Burke and W.C. Fields, opens at the New Amsterdam Theatre, NYC

1925 Silent film "The Gold Rush," directed, starring, and written by Charlie Chaplin, is released and becomes the fifth highest-grossing silent film of all time

• 1927 Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth
• 1927 The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island

1928 First meeting of the International Congresses of Modern Architects (CIAM) at Lake Leman, Switzerland organized by Le Corbusier

• 1929 ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union)
• 1934 Germany and Poland sign non-aggression treaty

1934 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Federal Credit Union Act into law, establishing Credit Unions

• 1934 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs National Firearms Act into law, requiring registration and imposition of excise tax on firearms including machine guns. short-barreled shotguns and rifles, and silencers; exceptions made for pistol, revolvers, and long guns

1934 W.E.B. Du Bois resigns position at NAACP

• 1935 Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in center in doubleheader
• 1935 SDAP & CPH achieve majority in city council in Amsterdam
• 1935 Work service for recent graduates becomes obligatory in Germany
• 1936 Everett Marshall beats Ali Baba in Columbus, to become wrestling champ
• 1936 First flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 helicopter, piloted by Ewald Rohlfs
• 1937 Test cricket debut of all-time great English batsman Len Hutton v New Zealand in 1st Tests at Lord's; scores 0 & 1
• 1938 Cincinnati Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader
• 1940 End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
• 1941 Lithuanian fascists massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
• 1942 German assault on British railroad terminal at Mersa Matruh, Egypt
• 1944 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line
• 1944 MLB New York Yankees, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Giants play unique 6 inning game for War Bonds, each playing successive innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yanks-1 & Giants-0
• 1945 England win the second Victory test cricket at Bramall Lane by 41 runs

1945 The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 nations in San Francisco

• 1946 Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years

1946 Fred Allen's last radio show, his guest is Jack Benny

• 1948 US begin airlift “Operation Vittles” to West Berlin
• 1949 1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains)
• 1950 President Gottwald of Czechoslovakia confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence

1952 Nelson Mandela and 51 others infringe South Africa's curfew

• 1953 KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, TX (CBS) 1st broadcast

1953 Lavrentiy Beria, one of the trio of Soviet leaders after Stalin's death and the former secret police chief, is ousted from power and arrested

• 1954 Jim Peters runs marathon in 2:17:39.4
• 1955 Freedom Charter signed in South Africa

1958 Leading a minority government, Gaston Eyskens is selected Prime Minister of Belgium for the second time

• 1958 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated
• 1958 Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)

1959 Ingemar Johansson of Sweden floors Floyd Patterson 7 times in the 3rd round in NYC to win the world heavyweight boxing title

1959 Queen Elizabeth II and US President Dwight D. Eisenhower open the St. Lawrence Seaway, allowing oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America

• 1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
• 1960 Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually
• 1960 Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian administration
• 1960 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Beverly CC: Joyce Ziske wins on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with Barbara Romack
• 1960 Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France
• 1962 Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill
• 1962 Boston Red Sox Earl Wilson no-hits LA Angels, 2-0
• 1962 WSEC (now WLRN) TV channel 17 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1963 Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government
• 1963 Dutch Second Chamber condemns commercial TV

1963 Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli Prime Minister

1963 US President John F. Kennedy gives his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" (intended to mean "I am a Berliner", but may actually mean "I am a doughnut") speech in West Berlin

• 1964 Moise Tsjombe forms government in Congo
• 1965 Wallon party forms in Belgium
• 1966 Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland

1967 Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals including Karol Józef Wojtyła, the Archbishop of Cracow and future Pope John Paul II

• 1968 10-year-old English girl Mary Bell strangles four-year-old Martin Brown in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (later convicted of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility)
• 1968 Executive Council decides both AL & NL to divide into 2 divisions

1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US

• 1970 Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Baltimore Orioles beat Washington Senators 12-2
• 1970 Two young girls die in a premature explosion in Derry after their father, a member of the Irish Republican Army, was making an incendiary device, presumably for use against the British Army
• 1971 Angels suspend Alex Johnson (after 5 benchings & 29 fines)
• 1972 Australian swing bowler Bob Massie takes 16 wickets (8-84 & 8-53) on Test cricket debut in 2nd Test vs England at Lord's
• 1972 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill two British Army soldiers in separate attacks during the day and at midnight begins a "bi-lateral truce"

1973 London production of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's musical "Grease", starring Richard Gere, opens at the New London Theatre

• 1973 On Plesetsk Cosmodrome, USSR, 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
• 1974 The Universal Product Code (UPC) is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio

1975 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency

• 1975 Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
• 1975 U.S. Supreme Court's rules unanimously in "O'Connor v. Donaldson" that non-dangerous people can't be confined to psychiatric facilities without adequate treatment if able to live viably in outside society
• 1976 CN Tower opens in Toronto - at 553 metres (1,815 feet), the tallest freestanding structure in the world (surpassed by Dubai’s Burj Khalifa 2009) [1]

1976 Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki fights American boxer Muhammad Ali, at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan [1]

• 1976 Washington Senators player Toby Harrah plays an entire doubleheader at shortstop without a single chance in the field
• 1977 42 die in a fire caused by an inmate at Maury County Jail in Columbia, Tennessee

1977 Elvis Presley appears in concert at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana; unknowingly the last performance of his career

• 1977 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16-year-old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.
• 1977 Tim Severin aboard the Brendan reaches Newfoundland in attempt to prove sixth-century Irish monks could have voyaged across the Atlantic
• 1978 Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine, killing two of the 107 passengers on board
• 1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France
• 1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched

1979 "Moonraker", 11th James Bond film starring Roger Moore, premieres in London

• 1979 British rock drummer Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, accidentally crashes, and kills another driver
• 1979 The Village People become the first disco act to play Madison Square Garden, NYC

1981 "Stripes", American military comedy film, directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, and John Candy premieres

• 1982 Carlos Lopes runs European record 10km (27:34.39)
• 1982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
• 1983 "Loving" premieres on TV
• 1984 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4

1985 Portugal's Socialist Prime Minister Mário Soares resigns amid predictions that Parliament would be dissolved and elections called

1987 Columbia Records releases "King's Record Shop", the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash, and the final of her albums produced by husband Rodney Crowell

• 1987 Losing 9-0 to Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees score 11 in 3rd, and win 12-11 in 10 innings

1987 Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. announces his retirement

1989 Canada updates its coinage with a new portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, designed by a Canadian for the 1st time - artist Dora dePedery-Hunt

• 1989 Supreme Court rules 16-year-olds can receive the death penalty
• 1990 122°F in Phoenix, Arizona
• 1990 African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela addresses a joint session of US Congress in Washington, D.C. [1]
• 1990 Eight Kansas and Oklahoma radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad
• 1990 New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg release from hospital after fall
• 1991 Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America's Junior Miss
• 1991 NBA Draft: UNLV power forward Larry Johnson first pick by Charlotte Hornets
• 1992 India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh
• 1992 NYC's MTA votes to ban cigarette ads on Jan 1, 1993
• 1992 Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports
• 1993 NHL Draft: Victoriaville Tigres (QMJHL) center Alexandre Daigle first pick by Ottawa Senators
• 1993 NY Met Eddie Murray is 20th to get 1,600 RBIs
• 1993 Rebecca Jones, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Junior Miss

1993 US launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad's intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait

• 1994 104°F (40°C) at Denver, Colorado
• 1994 107°F (41.6°C) at Albuquerque, New Mexico
• 1994 112°F (44.4°C) at El Paso, Texas
• 1994 122°F (50°C) at Laughlin, Nevada
• 1994 126°F (52.2°C) in Death Valley, California
• 1994 Air Ivory Fokker-27 crashes at Abidjan (16 killed/1 lives)
• 1994 Kirby Puckett pass Rod Carew with 2,088 hit as Twin's top hit leader

1994 PLO leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years

1995 Gunmen ambush Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who escapes unharmed

• 1995 Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
• 1995 Karlheinz Stockhausen's musical piece "Helikopter-Streichquartett" premieres in and above Amsterdam - members of a string quartet perform in individual helicopters flying independent flight paths over Holland with sounds and video transmitted and mixed to audience in the concert hall
• 1996 Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
• 1996 NBA Draft: Georgetown guard Allen Iverson first pick by Philadelphia 76ers
• 1997 Galileo, Ganymede Observations (Orbit 9)

1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1st book in J. K. Rowling's best-selling series, is published

• 1997 The U.S. Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban
• 1997 U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Communications Decency Act, inconsistent with the 1st Amendment
• 1999 NHL Draft: Long Beach Ice Dogs (IHL) center Patrik Stefan first pick by Atlanta Thrashers
• 2002 NBA Draft: Shanghai Sharks (China) center Yao Ming first pick by Houston Rockets

2003 NBA Draft: St. Vincent–St. Mary HS (Akron, Ohio) small forward LeBron James first pick by Cleveland Cavaliers

• 2003 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
• 2008 NBA Draft: Memphis point guard Derrick Rose first pick by Chicago Bulls
• 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the ban on handguns in the District of Columbia is unconstitutional.

2012 "Good Time" by Owl City (Adam Young) and Carly Rae Jepsen releases, topping charts worldwide and selling 2.24 million copies in the US by the end of 2012

2012 Animated film "Ice Age: Continental Drift", directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier with voices by Ray Romano and John Leguizamo premieres in Buenos Aires

• 2012 Police procedural drama "Line of Duty" debuts on BBC 2 in the UK
• 2013 20 people are killed after a rescue helicopter crashes in Uttarakhand
• 2013 Kevin Rudd defeats Julia Gillard in a leadership battle to become Australian Prime Minister

2013 Peter Ustinov's "The Moment of Truth" opens at Southwark Playhouse in London starring Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley)

• 2014 Following the military coup in Thailand, people are warned that anyone calling for protest on social media will be prosecuted for sedition
• 2014 Joel Embiid is selected with the third overall pick by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2014 NBA draft

2014 Luis Suárez is expelled from the 2014 FIFA World Cup following his biting incident

• 2014 NBA Draft: Kansas small forward Andrew Wiggins first pick by Cleveland Cavaliers

2015 Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras calls for a referendum on new bailout terms during the Greek Credit Crisis

• 2015 Gunman opens fire at beach resort in Sousse, Tunisia, killing 38. Isis claims responsibility.
• 2015 NHL Draft: Erie Otters (OHL) center Connor McDavid #1 pick by the Edmonton Oilers
• 2015 Saudi suicide bomber kills 27 at Shia Imam al-Sadiq mosque in Kuwait, 227 injured

2015 US President Barack Obama sings "Amazing Grace" as part of his eulogy for Reverend Clementa Pinckney and 8 church members killed during a bible study in Charleston, South Carolina

• 2015 US Supreme Court rules 5-4 same-sex marriage is a legal right across all US states
• 2016 City of Falluja freed from Islamic State control after a month-long campaign by Iraqi forces
• 2016 Iceland’s presidential election is won by history professor Guðni Jóhannesson
• 2016 Panama Canal's third set of locks opens for commercial traffic, doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion

2017 America's Cup: Emirates Team New Zealand defeats Oracle Team USA 7-1 in Bermuda, making Peter Burling (26) the youngest helmsman to win the cup

2017 Brazilian state prosecutors file corruption charges against President Michel Temer

• 2017 Helicopter with rogue police pilot attacks Venezuelan Supreme Court in Caracas

2017 Theresa May's UK Conservative minority party strikes a deal to govern with Northern Ireland's DUP, guaranteeing £1 billion in funding for Northern Ireland

2018 "The Bee Gees" singer-songwriter Barry Gibb is knighted by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace

• 2018 First high level talks between Ethiopian and Eritrean officials in 20 years begins in Addis Ababa

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