Events636 -
Battle of Yarmuk:
Arab forces led by
Khalid bin Walid take control of
Syria and
Palestine away from the
Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of
Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of
Islam outside
Arabia.917 -
Battle of Anchialus: Tsar
Simeon I of Bulgaria invades
Thrace and drives the
Byzantines out.
1000 - The foundation of the
Hungarian state,
Hungary is established as a
Christian kingdom by
Stephen I of Hungary.1391 -
Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th
Hochmeister of the
Teutonic Order. 1672 - Former
Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his
brother Cornelis were brutally murdered by an angry mob in
The Hague.
1794 -
Battle of Fallen Timbers -
American troops force a confederacy of
Shawnee,
Mingo,
Delaware,
Wyandot,
Miami,
Ottawa,
Chippewa, and
Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.
1804 -
Lewis and Clark Expedition: The "
Corps of Discovery", exploring the
Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when
Sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute
appendicitis.
1866 - President
Andrew Johnson formally declared the
U.S. Civil War over.
1882 -
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's
1812 Overture debuts in
Moscow.
1888 -
Mutineers imprison
Emin Pasha at
Dufile.
1900 -
Japan's primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling.
1914 -
World War I:
German forces occupy
Brussels.
1920 - The first commercial
radio station,
8MK (
WWJ), begins operations in
Detroit, Michigan.
1926 -
Japan's public broadcasting company,
Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
1938 -
Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam - a record that still stands.
1940 - Exiled
Russian revolutionary
Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded in
Mexico City by an assassin's ice axe. He dies the next day.
1944 - The
Battle of Romania begins with a major
Soviet offensive.
1953 - The
Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a
hydrogen bomb.
1955 - In
Morocco, a force of
Berbers from the
Atlas Mountains region of
Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77
French nationals.
1960 -
Senegal breaks from the
Mali federation, declaring independence.
1968 - 200,000
Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000
tanks invade
Czechoslovakia to end the "
Prague Spring" of political liberalization.
1969 - All four Beatles were together in the recording studio for the final time as they finished the
Abbey Road LP.
1974 - Congress votes to reduce aid to South Vietnam from $1 Billion to $700 Million. Majority of the cuts were for military supplies.
1975 -
Viking Program:
NASA launches the
Viking 1 planetary probe toward
Mars.
1977 -
Voyager Program: The
United States launches the
Voyager 2 spacecraft.
1979 - The
East Coast Main Line rail route between
England and
Scotland is restored when the
Penmanshiel Diversion opens.
1982 -
Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in
Beirut to oversee the
PLO withdrawal from
Lebanon.
1986 - In
Edmond, Oklahoma,
U.S. Postal employee
Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits
suicide.
1988 - "Black Saturday" of the
Yellowstone fire in
Yellowstone National Park1988 -
Peru becomes a member of the
Berne Convention copyright treaty.1988 -
Iran-Iraq War: A
cease-fire is agreed to after almost eight years of war.
1991 -
Collapse of the Soviet Union,
August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the
Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the
coup aiming to depose
President Mikhail Gorbachev.1991 -
Estonia secedes from the
Soviet Union.
1993 - After rounds of secret negotiations in
Norway, the
Oslo Peace Accords were signed, followed by a public ceremony in
Washington, D.C. the next month.
1997 -
Souhane massacre in
Algeria; over 60 people killed, 15 kidnapped.
1998 - The
Supreme Court of Canada states
Quebec cannot legally secede from
Canada without the federal government's approval.1998 -
U.S. embassy bombings: The
United States military launches
cruise missile attacks against alleged
al-Qaida camps in
Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in
Sudan in retaliation for the
August 7 bombings of
American embassies in
Kenya and
Tanzania. The
al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in
Khartoum is destroyed in the attack.
2002 - A group of
Iraqis opposed to the regime of
Saddam Hussein took over the Iraqi
Embassy in
Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and giving up.
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