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- 0323 - Battle at Adrianopolis: Flavius Julius Crispus' beats emperor Licinius
- 0683 - St Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 0987 - Hugo Capet crowned king of France
- 1090 - Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor beats earl Egbert II
- 1187 - Crusaders enter Tiberias
- 1428 - Treaty of Delft-between Jacoba of Bayern & Philip the Good
- 1468 - Duke Charles the Stout marries Princess Margaretha of York
- 1608 - Samuel de Champlain founded city of Quebec
- 1630 - Emperor Ferdinand II opens German Parliament
- 1661 - Portugal gives Tanger & Bombay to English King Charles II
- 1720 - Sweden & Denmark sign peace treaty
- 1754 - George Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years' War)
- 1775 - Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
- 1778 - British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa
- 1778 - Prussia declares war on Austria
- 1806 - Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry
- 1814 - Americans capture Fort Erie Canada
- 1816 - French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas
- 1819 - 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
- 1839 - 1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students
- 1841 - John Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus
- 1848 - Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)
- 1852 - Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif)
- 1853 - Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan
- 1861 - Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general
- 1861 - Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY
- 1861 - Martinsburg, VA - Confederate forces pull out before US advance
- 1863 - Battle of Donaldsonville, LA
- 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North
- 1864 - Battle of Chattahoochie River, GA [until Jul 9]
- 1864 - Harpers Ferry, WV - Federals evacuate in face of Early's advance
- 1871 - Jesse James robs bank in Corydon, Iowa ($45,000)
- 1876 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey
- 1883 - SS Daphne sinks on Clyde River Scotland; 195 die
- 1884 - Dow Jones published it's 1st stock avg
- 1886 - 1st NY Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine
- 1886 - In Germany, Karl Benz drives 1st automobile
- 1888 - NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak
- 1890 - Idaho admitted as 43rd US state
- 1890 - King Leopold II gives Congo to Belgium
- 1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Black Peter" (BG)
- 1898 - American troops captured deserted Wake Island
- 1898 - Dutch Automobile Club forms (KNAC)
- 1898 - Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe
- 1898 - US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba
- 1902 - Excelsior soccer team forms in Rotterdam
- 1905 - Kuyper govt forms in Holland
- 1905 - Marvin Hart KOs Jack Hart in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1907 - Pope decree forbids modernization of theology
- 1911 - Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day
- 1912 - NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak
- 1913 - Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic)
- 1915 - US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934
- 1916 - 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore (4 die)
- 1917 - Spontaneous demonstration at Tauride-palace Petrograd
- 1918 - SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament
- 1920 - 40th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Patterson (26 63 62 64)
- 1920 - Java Technical School Bandung opens
- 1920 - Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England
- 1923 - Harbor strike in Hull/Grimsby/Cardiff/Bristol over to London
- 1925 - 38th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Joan Fry (62 60)
- 1927 - 47th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: H Cochet beats Borotra (46 46 63 64 75)
- 1928 - 1st color TV broadcast in London (John Logic Baird)
- 1929 - Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
- 1930 - Veterans Administration created
- 1931 - 51st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Sid Wood Jr beats F X Shields (walkover)
- 1931 - Max Schmeling TKOs Young Stribling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1932 - 1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2
- 1932 - John McGraw retires from baseball
- 1934 - FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL
- 1936 - Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge U v MCC
- 1939 - Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler
- 1939 - Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech
- 1940 - ARP-leader/ex-premier Colijn argues cooperation with Germany
- 1940 - British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa
- 1940 - German occupiers forbids using Dutch royal names
- 1942 - Germany troop march into Sebastopol
- 1942 - Hitler visits fieldmarshal Von Bocks headquarter/d into/d Ukraine
- 1943 - Liberator bombers sinks U-628
- 1944 - Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore
- 1944 - US V-III-E Army corp opens assault on Coutances Cotentin
- 1946 - 1st Dutch government of Beel forms
- 1947 - 252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, NYC
- 1947 - Cleveland Indians purchase Larry Dolby, the 1st black in AL
- 1947 - Soviet Union doesn't partake in Marshall Plan
- 1948 - 55th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats Doris Hart (63 86)
- 1948 - Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death
- 1950 - 1st time US & North Korean forces clash in Korean War
- 1950 - Casey Stengel asks Joe DiMaggio to play 1st base (handles 13 chances)
- 1951 - 33rd PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa
- 1952 - Puerto Rico's constitution approved by US Congress
- 1953 - 67th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Vic Seixas beats Kurt Nielsen (97 63 64)
- 1954 - "Wonderful Town" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 559 perfs
- 1954 - 61st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (62 75)
- 1954 - 9th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
- 1954 - Food rationing ends in Britain
- 1958 - "Andy Williams Show" premieres on ABC (later on CBS & NBC)
- 1959 - 73rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Alex Olmedo beats Rod Laver (64 63 64)
- 1959 - 88th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 284 at Muirfield Gullane
- 1960 - Vernon Presley (father of Elvis) weds Dee Alliot
- 1962 - Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5)
- 1964 - 78th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Stolle (64 12-10 46 63)
- 1965 - 72nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats M Fraiser (64 75)
- 1965 - Phillies Dick Allen & Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice
- 1965 - USSR & Persia sign dam building & economic aid pact
- 1966 - 21st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Spuzich
- 1966 - Brave pitcher Tony Cloninger, is 1st NL to hit 2 grand slams in a game
- 1966 - Race riots in Omaha Nebraska
- 1967 - "News at 10" premieres on English TV
- 1968 - 41øF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
- 1968 - Cleve Indian Luis Tiant strikes out 19 Minn Twins
- 1969 - 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI
- 1970 - 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival
- 1970 - 77th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats King (14-12 11-9)
- 1970 - British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed
- 1970 - Calif Angels Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0
- 1971 - 85th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Newcombe beats S Smith (63 57 26 64 64)
- 1973 - Brothers Jim & Gaylord Perry face each other for only time, Tigers beat Indians 5-4, as Gaylord loses
- 1973 - General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA
- 1974 - Pitching in major league-record 13th consecutive game for Dodgers
- 1974 - Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
- 1974 - Mike Marshall saves Tommy John's 4-1 win
- 1976 - 90th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bj”rn B”rg beats Ilse Nastase (64 62 97)
- 1976 - Adolfo Suarez becomes premier of Spain
- 1976 - After 12 years, Brian Wilson performs with the Beach Boys
- 1976 - Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew & passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers
- 1977 - 5th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Judy Rankin
- 1977 - Turkey: premier Ecevit goes off
- 1978 - Establishment Amazon Pact
- 1978 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
- 1978 - Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words"
- 1980 - 1st US Seniors Golf Open: Roberto deVicenzo
- 1980 - 73,096 in Cleveland watch Indians beat Yankees 7-0
- 1981 - 88th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Mandlikova (62 62)
- 1981 - NYC transit fare rises from 60› to 75›, new brass Y-cut-out token
- 1982 - 89th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (61 36 62)
- 1982 - Riot at building Stopera Amsterdam (damages Ÿ 1 million)
- 1983 - 11th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Hollis Stacy
- 1983 - 97th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Chris Lewis (62 62 62)
- 1983 - Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (9.93 for 100m)
- 1983 - Rangers explode for 12 runs in 15th inning of a 16-4 win over the A's
- 1984 - Derek Underwood's maiden FC century after 22 yrs of trying
- 1984 - Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island
- 1984 - Greenidge scores brilliant 214 off 241 balls to win Lord's Test
- 1984 - Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
- 1985 - CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover
- 1986 - Kuwait's National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) dissolves
- 1986 - Pres Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty
- 1987 - 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic
- 1987 - NY Met Darryl Strawberry threatens teammates Wally Backman & Lee Mazzilli for criticizing his play
- 1988 - 16th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sally Little
- 1988 - A's Gene Nelson is 1st AL pitcher to steal a base since 1973
- 1988 - US Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290
- 1989 - Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3k steeplechase rec (8:05.39) in Stockholm
- 1989 - Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions
- 1989 - The movie "Batman," set record of quickest $100 million (10 days)
- 1990 - Members of 2 Live Crew formally charged with obscenity in Florida
- 1991 - Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7.45 karat diamond ring
- 1991 - Gateway Board of Trustees approve a 20-year lease with Cleve Indians
- 1992 - Gary Dell'Abate (Howard Stern Show) marries Mary
- 1992 - Mass Senator Ted Kennedy marries Victoria Reggie (38)
- 1993 - 100th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats J Novotna (76 16 64)
- 1993 - Boon completes 16th Test Cricket century, 101 at Trent Bridge
- 1993 - Prince Alois of Liechtenstein weds Duchess Sophie of Bavaria
- 1994 - 108th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: P Sampras beats G Ivanisevic (76 76 60)
- 1994 - 15th US Seniors Golf Open: Simon Hobday
- 1994 - 30 die in 3 fatal auto accidents in Texas
- 1994 - Romania eliminates Argentina 3-2 in soccer world cup
- 1994 - Tammie Green wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
- 1997 - Mississippi becomes 1st state to settle tobacco suit
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