Events1099 -
First Crusade:
Christian soldiers take
Church of the Holy Sepulchre in
Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.1162 -
Ladislaus II of Hungary declared
King of Hungary.1207 -
John of England expels
Canterbury monks for supporting
Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton.1240 - A
Novgorodian army led by
Alexander Nevsky defeats the
Swedes in the
Battle of the Neva.1381 -
John Ball, a leader in the
Peasants' Revolt,
hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of
Richard II of England.1410 -
Battle of Grunwald, allied forces of the
Kingdom of Poland and the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the
Teutonic Order.
1685 -
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at
Tower Hill,
England after his defeat at the
Battle of Sedgemore on
6 July 1685.
1789 -
Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, by acclamation, named
colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
1799 -
Rosetta Stone is found in the
Egyptian village of
Rosetta, by
French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard.
1806 -
Pike expedition: Near
St. Louis, Missouri,
United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.
1815 -
Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard
HMS Bellerophon.
1823 - A fire destroys the ancient
Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in
Rome.
1862 -
American Civil War:
Confederates break naval blockade of
Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1870 -
Post-American-Civil-War Reconstruction:
Georgia becomes the last of the former
Confederate states to be readmitted to the
Union.1870 -
Rupert's Land and the
North-Western Territory are transferred to
Canada from the
Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of
Manitoba and the
North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.
1895 -
Archie MacLaren scores
County Championship record
cricket innings of 424 for
Lancashire against
Somerset at
Taunton.
1916 - In
Seattle, Washington,
William Boeing and
George Conrad Westervelt incorporate
Pacific Aero Products (later renamed
Boeing).
1918 -
World War I:
Second Battle of the Marne - The battle begins near the
River Marne with a
German attack.
1926 -
BEST buses make its début in
Mumbai.
1927 -
Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the
Austrian police in
Vienna.
1929 - First weekly radio broadcast of
Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show,
Music and the Spoken Word.
1931 -
Kid Chocolate becomes
Cuba's first world
boxing champion.
1945 -
President Harry Truman disembarks the heavy cruiser the
USS Augusta (CA-31) in
Antwerp en route to
Potsdam for the
Potsdam Conference.
1953 -
John Reginald Christie,
British serial killer executed.
1954 - First flight of the
Boeing 707, the first
American jet passenger airliner.
1955 - Eighteen
Nobel laureates signed the
Mainau Declaration against
nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
1957 - Full-scale production of the
Edsel automobile begins.
1958 - In
Lebanon, 5,000
United States Marines land in the capital
Beirut in order to provide military support to the pro-Western government there.
1959 - The
steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign
steel for the first time in
United States history.
1974 - In
Nicosia,
Cyprus,
Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a
coup d'état, deposing
President Makarios and installing
Nikos Sampson as
Cypriot president.1974 -
Christine Chubbuck becomes the first person to commit suicide on-air.
1975 -
Apollo Soyuz Test Project:
Apollo and
Soyuz spacecraft take off for
U.S.-
Soviet link-up in space.1975 -
Clifford Antone opens the legendary
Austin blues club Antone's on 6th Street.
1979 -
U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his famous "
malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation."
1995 - First item sold on
Amazon.com1996 - A
Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the
Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at
Eindhoven Airport.
1997 - In
Miami, Florida,
serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down
Gianni Versace outside his home.
2002 - "
American Taliban"
John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and for the possession of explosives during the commission of a
felony. 2002 - Anti-Terrorism Court of
Pakistan awarded death sentence to
British born
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life term to three other suspects in murdering
Wall Street Journal reporter
Daniel Pearl.
2003 -
AOL Time Warner disbands
Netscape Communications Corporation. The
Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.2003 - the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed its
SARS-related travel advisory for
Taiwan, the last area to have such a travel alert.
2004 -
Monorail service begins in
Las Vegas.2004 - The
BBC airs the documentary The Secret Agent, exposing racism by members of the
British National Party.
2005 -
Jack Nicklaus plays his last hole of competitive golf during
The Open Championship at Hole 18 at
St Andrews, finishing with a birdie.2005 - the
EPA approves a 70 parts per million addition of
fluoride to all processed foods.
2006 -
Mogadishu Int'l Airport in
Somalia's capital of
Mogadishu re-opens after an eleven-year closure mainly due to the
Somali civil war.
2007 -
Lewis Gordon Pugh becomes the first person to swim at the
North Pole.
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