0070 - Titus sets up batterig rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem
0649 - Pope Martinus I elected to succeed Theodore I
1097 - First Crusaders defeat Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea
1200 - In China, sunglasses are invented
1233 - Earl Otto II van Gelre grants Arnhem state justice
1252 - King Alfonso X "el Sabio" of Castilio/Leon crowned
1253 - Battle at Westkapelle-Floris the Guardian beats Gwijde van Dampierre
1347 - Engagement of Count Louis of Male to Margaretha to daughter of Jan III
1390 - French and Genuese armada sails out against barbarian pirates
1517 - First burning of Protestants at stake in Netherlands
1517 - Inquisitor Adrian Boeyens (pope Adrianus VI) becomes cardinal
1535 - Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason
1543 - England and Scotland sign Peace treaty of Greenwich
1569 - Latvia Parliament accept Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland
1656 - First Quakers (Mary Fisher/Ann Austin) arrives in Boston (arrested)
1674 - Spain, France and Netherlands form Triple Alliance
1689 - Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu Japan
1690 - Battle of Colors: French beats Spanish/Dutch army
1690 - Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of Boyne in Ireland
1745 - Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle [OS]
1747 - Battle at Lafeld: France beat English/Dutch army
1776 - First vote on Declaration of Independence
1776 - Francis Salvador, first Jew to die in American Revolutionary War
1795 - John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of Supreme Court
1798 - Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt
1810 - Louis Napoleon resigns as king of the Netherlands
1816 - Fr frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of G�ricault's "Raft of the Medusa"
1820 - First edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published"
1823 - 9th Postmaster General: John McLean of Ohio takes office
1823 - United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico
1831 - Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole
1839 - Mahmud II, Sultan of Turkey (1808-39), dies at 53
1839 - Abdul-Medjid succeeds Mahmud II as Sultan of Turkey
1847 - First US postage stamps go on sale, 5-cents Franklin and 10-cents Washington, NYC
1850 - At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay
1858 - First Canadian coins minted (1�, 5�, 10� and 20�)
1859 - First intercollegiate baseball game, Amherst beats Williams 66-32
1859 - Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St Louis
1861 - First public schoolhouse opens at Washington and Mason St, San Francisco
1861 - War Dept decrees that Kansas and Tennessee are to be canvassed for volunteers
1862 - Battle at Booneville Mississippi: Confed superior power driven out
1862 - Battle of Malvern Hill, VA (Harrison's Landing, Crew's Farm)
1862 - Congress outlaws polygamy (first time); bad news for Utah
1862 - Day 7 of 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill (Poindexter's Farm) Day 7 of Seven Days US15,249 CS17,583
1862 - Emperor Alexander II grants Jews right to publish books
1862 - Lincoln appoints Isaac Newton Secretary of Agriculture
1862 - Battle of Holly Spring, Mississippi
1862 - Internal Revenue Law imposes first federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco and on incomes over $600 (progressive rate)
1863 - -2] Battle at Baltimore: Crump's Crossroads, Virginia
1863 - Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Lee's northward advance halted
1863 - Free city delivery of mail begins in 49 US cities; postage 3�/� oz
1863 - Slavery abolished in Suriname and Netherlands Antilles
1864 - Battle of Petersburg, Virginia [- July 31]
1867 - Dominion of Canada forms (New Bruns, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec)
1869 - Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed
1869 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens
1870 - James W Smith of SC is first black to enter West Point
1871 - The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada
1873 - Henry Flipper of Ga is 2nd black to enter West Point
1873 - Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province
1874 - First Chamber accept law against child labor
1874 - First US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000
1874 - First US zoo opens (Philadelphia)
1875 - Universal Postal Union established
1877 - First edition of "Amsterdammer" published
1878 - Treaty of Berlin divide Africa up for colonization
1879 - Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha sails from Alexandria to Naples
1881 - First international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St Stephen, NB
1881 - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens
1883 - ANWB forms in Utrecht
1889 - Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti
1889 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens
1890 - Great-Britain and Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland Treaty
1893 - SF Bay City Club opens first US bicycle race track, made of wood
1896 - Harbor of Ymuiden opens
1896 - Wilfrid Laurel sworn in as first French speaking premier
1897 - Bronx acquires Hutton Square
1898 - Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
1899 - Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels
1899 - San Francisco City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building
1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" (BG)
1903 - First Tour de France bicycle race begins
1904 - 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St Louis
1907 - World's first air force established (US Army)
1910 - Chicago's Comiskey Park opens - St Louis Browns beat White Sox 2-0
1910 - Union of South Africa becomes a dominion
1910 - White Sox Park (Comiskey Park) opens with 2-0 loss to Browns
1911 - German boat Panther nears for Agadir Morocco
1911 - Proclamation removes "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins
1913 - Serbia and Greece declare war on Bulgaria
1915 - Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service
1915 - Australian Survey Corps becomes part of Military Forces
1916 - Battle on the Somme: British 4th Army walks to German lines
1916 - British court martial (Easter uprising)
1916 - Coca-Cola brings current coke formula to the market
1916 - Dwight Eisenhower marries Mary `Mamie' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo
1916 - Honus Wagner, 42, is oldest to hit an inside-the-park HR
1917 - 257cm-mirror for Mount Wilson Observatory mounted
1917 - Race riots in East St Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed)
1917 - Reds Fred Toney pitches completes doubleheader victories over Pirates
1917 - Robins (Dodgers) play their first Sunday game in Brooklyn
1919 - First class postage drops from 3-cents to 2-cents
1919 - Scheveningen soccer team forms in Scheveningen
1920 - Washington Senator Walter Johnson no-hits Boston Red Sox, 1-0
1923 - First permanent radio network-ATandT (WEAF NY and WMAF Mass)
1924 - Light Brigade forms
1924 - Through regular transcontinental airmail service forms, NYC-SF
1925 - NY Giant Hack Wilson hits 2 HRs in 3rd inning beating Phillies, 16-7
1925 - SDAP wins 4 chairs in Second-Parliamentary election
1925 - Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK
1926 - Canada restores gold standard
1929 - US Immigration law of 1924 in effect
1929 - US cartoonist Elzie Segar creates "Popeye"
1930 - Great-Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq
1931 - Cleveland Municipal Stadium is completed
1931 - Ice vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15�
1931 - Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs Chicago Cubs
1931 - Trans African Railway in use (Benguela, Angola-Jadotville, Congo)
1932 - 45th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (63 61)
1932 - NY Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt nominated for president at Democratic Convention in Chicago
1932 - NY newspaper Evening Standard goes bankrupt
1933 - German Nazi regime decides married women shouldn't work
1934 - First x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY
1935 - General Neth Persbureau (ANP) forms in Amsterdam
1936 - Watchfulness Committee forms in Amsterdam
1937 - Britian begins using an emergency phone number (999)
1937 - Rev Martin Niem�ller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany
1937 - Spanish bishops support Franco and fascists
1938 - 58th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Don Budge beats Henry Austin (61 60 63)
1940 - Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees
1941 - Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for first ever network TV commercial
1941 - Joe Dimaggio on way to 56, ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hit streak
1942 - German troops conquer Sebastopol
1943 - "Pay-as-you-go" - first withholding tax from paychecks
1943 - Germans execute 12 Dutch census bureau officials for their part in the Dutch resistance
1944 - 2500+ killed in London/SE England by German flying bombs
1944 - Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF and World Bank
1944 - Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel
1944 - General Eisenhower visits front in Normandy
1944 - US headquarter moves to Colombisres, Normandy
1944 - Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Signs peace, idiots!"
1945 - First of the superstars returns from the WW II, Hank Greenberg homers
1945 - 55th Postmaster General: Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office
1945 - Allies troop land on Balikpapan
1946 - Rajah cedes Sarawak to British crown
1946 - US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)
1947 - 192m long passenger ship Willem Ruys (Achille Lauro) launched
1947 - British Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office
1948 - Brooklyn's Roy Campanella debuts as catcher
1948 - NYC subway fare goes to 10-cents, bus fare to 7-cents and combo fare at 12-cents
1949 - 63rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ted Schroeder beat Drobny (36 60 63 46 64)
1949 - Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France
1950 - First 407 US soldiers flown to South Korea
1950 - NYC bus fare rises to 10-cents equal to subway fare, combo fare at 15-cents
1951 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1951 - Cleve Indian Bob Feller, 3rd no-hitter beats Det Tigers, 2-1
1954 - Cards' Joe Cunningham hits 2 HRs for record 3 HRs in his first 2 days
1955 - 69th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Kurt Nielsen (63 75 61)
1956 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1956 - Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on Steve Allen Show
1956 - Ibrahim Hashiroe succeeds Said el-Moefti as premier of Jordan
1957 - International Geophysical Year begins (until Dec 31, 1958)
1959 - Heinrich Lobke elected President of West-Germany
1959 - Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West Germany
1959 - World Refugee Year begins
1960 - British Somaliland becomes Somalia
1960 - Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell and Texaco in Cuba
1960 - Ghana becomes a republic
1960 - Italian Somaliland gains independence, unites with Somali Republic
1960 - No passports needed inside Benelux
1960 - USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane
1961 - 16th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1961 - Haleakala National Park forms in Hawaii
1962 - Algeria votes for independence
1962 - Burundi and Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days)
1963 - Beatles record "She Loves You" and "I'll Get You"
1963 - President Kennedy arrives in Rome
1963 - US postal service institutes (Zone Improvement Plan) zip code
1965 - FC Twente '65 Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede
1965 - Kinderstraf trial starts
1966 - 80th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: M Santana beats D Ralston (64 11-9 64)
1966 - Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART
1966 - Explorer 33 launched
1966 - Medicare goes into effect
1966 - VVV soccer team forms in Venlo
1967 - First British color TV broadcast, on BBC 2
1967 - Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," goes #1 for 15 weeks
1968 - Bob Gibson's streak of 47 2/3 inn scoreless streak ends on wild pitch
1968 - Fortuna Sittard soccer team forms in Sittard
1968 - John Lennon's first full art exhibition (You are Here)
1968 - US, Britain, USSR and 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
1968 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1969 - Charles Philip Arthur George invested as Prince of Wales
1969 - John and Yoko are hospitalized after a car crash
1969 - Shelby Singleton buys Sun Records from Sam Phillips
1970 - Denny McLain returns, (leaves trailiing) Tigers beat Yankees in 11
1970 - FC Utrecht soccer team forms in Utrecht
1970 - Jimi Hendrix first recording session (NYC)
1971 - British and Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands
1971 - Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?)
1971 - State of Washington becomes first state to ban sex discrimination
1972 - Ms. magazine begins publishing
1973 - First US-China basketball game, US collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61
1973 - Mary Mills wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1974 - First Laura Ashley-store in US opens (SF)
1974 - General Pinochet becomes president of Chile
1974 - Isabel Per�n succeeds husband Juan as President of Argentina
1974 - Monmouthshire renamed Gwent and becomes part of Wales
1975 - Muhammad Ali beats Joe Bugner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1975 - Ringo Starr and Maureen, divorce
1975 - WEDway People Mover inaugurated
1976 - Kenneth Gibson, is first black president of US Conference of Mayors
1977 - 84th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats B Stove (46 63 61)
1978 - Former President Nixon makes first public speech since resigning in 1974
1978 - Northern Territory of Australia becomes self-governing
1979 - Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6" of snow
1979 - Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open
1980 - Steve Overt runs world record 3:48.8 mile in Oslo
1981 - Laurel Canyon Calif murders (4 die, 1 wounded)
1981 - NEC soccer team forms in Nijmegen
1981 - Prince Willem Alexander opens Willems Bridge in Rotterdam
1981 - Radio Shack 3rd release of Model III TRSDOS 1.3
1982 - 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1982 - ABC national music radio network scheduled premiere (never happened)
1982 - Cal Ripken's first game
1982 - Challenger moves overland to Dryden
1982 - General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina
1982 - Kosmos 1383, first search and rescue satellite, launched
1982 - Over 2000 Unification Church couples marry at NY MSG
1982 - PEC Swells '82 soccer team forms in Swells
1983 - R Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87
1983 - Arbitrator Raymond Goetz rules 43 players who are on Disabled List during 1981 players' strike not entitled to salaries for that period
1984 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1984 - Royals pitcher Paul Splittorff, retires
1987 - Bork nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in Oct by senate
1987 - NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes first 24 hour all sports radio
1987 - WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD) replacing WHN's country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
1989 - Hugh Hefner (Playboy editor) weds playmate Kimberly Conrad
1989 - NFL owners vote unanimously to form WLAF
1989 - Yanks beat Milwaukee Brewers 4-1, score is changed to 5-1 after game is over. Umpire rules Roberto Kelly scored before a double-play
1990 - 11th US Seniors Golf Open: Lee Trevino
1990 - 18th du Maurier Golf Classic: Cathy Johnston
1990 - First Zen winter session in Sydney Zen Center's Gorrick's Run Zendo
1990 - Despite Andy Hawkins no-hitting White Sox, Yankees lose 4-0
1990 - Dordrecht '90 soccer team forms in Dordrecht
1990 - FC Swells soccer team forms in Swells
1990 - German Democratic Republic accepts Deutsche Mark as its currency
1990 - In Victoria, Australia, helmetless bike riding becomes illegal
1990 - NY Yankee Andy Hawkins throws no-hitter in Comiskey Park, losing 4-0
1992 - 6.6 earthquake in Big Bear Valley of Los Angeles
1992 - Ali Kafi becomes president of Algeria
1992 - Fox broadcasting adds Wednesday night TV programming
1993 - 1 second is added to the clock
1993 - Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit
1993 - STS-57 (Endeavour) lands
1994 - Fokker's-28 crashes at Tidjikja, Mauritania (94 killed)
1994 - Roman Herzog sworn in as German president
1994 - Soyuz TM-19 launches
1994 - Yassar Arafat returns to Gaza strip
1995 - Kiersten Rickenbach, of NJ, crowned America's Junior Miss
1996 - Kevan James scores 103 and takes 4 wkts in 4 balls, Hants v Ind
1996 - NHL Winnipeg Jets officially become the Phoenix Coyotes
1996 - Placido Domingo becomes art director of Washington Opera
1997 - Nevada Athletic Commission suspends Mike Tyson for biting Holyfield
1997 - STS 94 (Columbia 23) launches into orbit
1997 - UK returns Hong Kong to China
2000 - Vermont's civil unions law went into effect, granting gay couples most of the rights, benefits and responsibilities of marriage
2000 - The Confederate flag was removed from atop South Carolina's Statehouse
2002 - Chile's Supreme Court ruled that former dictator General Augusto Pinochet was suffering from dementia and dropped all charges against him for human rights violations during his regime
2004 - Saddam Hussein made a defiant first public appearance in an Iraqi court since being captured seven months earlier, scoffing at charges of war crimes and mass killings
2004 - Actor Marlon Brando died at age 80
2005 - Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female Supreme Court justice, announced her retirement
