0362 - Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws
0626 - Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople
1014 - Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies
1030 - Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim)
1030 - Olaf Haraldsson, King of Norway, dies in battle of Stiklestad
1095 - Ladislaus I Arpad de Heilige, King of Hungary, dies
1099 - Urban II, [Odo van Lagery], French Pope (1088-99), dies
1108 - Philip I, co-King of France (1059, 1060-1108), dies at 56
1164 - Olaf, King of Norway, dies
1179 - Lando Sittino proclaimed (anti-)Pope Innocent III
1560 - Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden
1563 - League of High Nobles routes King Philip II
1565 - Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
1579 - Antwerp request union with of Utrecht
1579 - King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez and princess van Eboli
1585 - Friese academy opens
1588 - Attacking Spanish Armada defeated and scattered by English defenders
1588 - Duke Farneses troops ready for invasion of England
1634 - Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Curacao
1644 - Urban VIII, [Maffeo Barberini], Pope (1623-44), dies
1655 - Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam
1676 - Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians
1693 - Battle at Neerwinden: French beats English/Dutch army
1696 - French king Louis XIV and Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace
1715 - 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane
1751 - First international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 mins in England
1773 - First schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
1783 - Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000
1786 - First newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette
1835 - First sugar plantation in Hawaii begins
1844 - NY Yacht Club forms
1858 - First commercial treaty between US and Japan signed
1858 - US citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan
1864 - 3rd and last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
1864 - Battle of Macon, GA (Stoneman's Raid)
1874 - Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
1899 - First motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY
1899 - Southern Calif Golf Association forms
1900 - Umberto I, Italian King (1878-1900) assassinated by Gaetano Bresci
1902 - Union of Orthodox Rabbis of US and Canada forms
1907 - First helicopter ascent in Douai, France
1907 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
1908 - St Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Phila Athletics
1910 - JWEL Hilgers is first Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory
1911 - Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
1913 - Albania becomes sovereignty under prince Wilhelm von Wied
1914 - First transcontinental phone link made between NYC and SF
1914 - Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade
1914 - British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover
1914 - Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary
1915 - Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR
1916 - Postal check and Girodienst establishes
1920 - First transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
1920 - Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders
1921 - Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 inn
1921 - New rules of language assumed (equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium)
1923 - Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin
1923 - KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany
1924 - Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship
1927 - First iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY)
1927 - Bellevue Hospital in NY installs first iron lung
1927 - Phil Mead scores his 100th 100, Hampshire v Northants
1928 - Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
1928 - Cleve Indians score 17 in first 2 inns to beat Yanks 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game
1929 - Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France
1930 - Airship R100, first passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada
1934 - 17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville NY
1936 - RCA shows first real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road and comedy)
1937 - Japanese troops occupies Peking and Tientsin
1938 - Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," first appears
1938 - Olympic National Park forms
1940 - Urk soccer team forms
1942 - Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd
1943 - 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg
1943 - Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam
1944 - Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours
1944 - Frank McCormick (Reds) HR off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH
1944 - US 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches
1945 - After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine
1947 - Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg Va
1948 - King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London
1949 - Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends
1949 - BBC radio begins broadcasting
1950 - Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run
1952 - First nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
1953 - US bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok
1955 - Smokey Burgess hits 3 HRS to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5
1955 - USSR performs nuclear Test
1956 - 11th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius
1956 - Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)
1957 - Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1957 - International Atomic Energy Agency forms by United Nations
1957 - Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres
1958 - Pres Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958
1958 - Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running
1961 - Bob Dylan injured in car accident
1961 - Phillies lose first of 23 straight games
1961 - Wallis and Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory
1965 - Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends
1965 - Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
1965 - Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)
1965 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 - Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock, New York
1966 - Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup
1967 - Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134
1967 - Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage
1967 - U S S Forrestal explodes kills 134. $100 million damage
1968 - Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
1968 - Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
1968 - Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
1968 - Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited
1968 - Wash DC Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs Cleve
1969 - Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
1970 - 6 days of race rioting in Hartford, Connecticut
1972 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1973 - $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from NY Hilton
1973 - Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy
1974 - Cass Elliot, singer (Mamas and Papas), chokes to death in London at 32
1974 - 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee
1974 - Episcopal Church ordained female priests
1974 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 - St Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base
1975 - Ford became first US pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
1975 - Military coup by General Mohammed/President Jakubu Gowon fired
1976 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1978 - 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, New York
1978 - Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h40m
1978 - Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings
1978 - On Old Timer's Day, NY Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as NY Yankee manager in 1980 and Bob Lemon will become GM
1979 - 7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott
1981 - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated
1981 - Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris
1981 - Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer
1982 - Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson
1983 - "Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV
1983 - Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
1984 - 12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster
1984 - 23rd Summer Olympics opens in LA
1985 - 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
1986 - Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed
1986 - Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire v Lancashire
1986 - NY jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages
1987 - Ben and Jerry's and Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia
1988 - FDIC bails out first Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion
1988 - Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1989
1988 - Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
1988 - Last US Playboy Club (Lansing Mich) closes
1988 - South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"
1988 - Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling
1988 - Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, first pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home
1989 - Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan
1989 - Phillies retire Steve Carlton's # 32
1989 - Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases
1989 - White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher and Sam Sosa
1990 - 26th Curtis Cup: US wins 14-4
1990 - 28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats USSR in Atlanta Georgia (2-1)
1990 - 36th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Beth Daniel
1990 - Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game
1990 - South Africa Communist Party begins first legal conference
1991 - First Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium (Mets beat Cubs 6-0)
1991 - Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7� caret engagement ring
1991 - Yankee Stadium fans throw cups and blowup dolls at Jose Canseco
1992 - Evgueni Sadovyi swims world record/OR 400m freestyle (3:45.00)
1992 - Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguys), arrested for narcotic possession
1993 - Cin Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession
1993 - Walter Koenig (Checkov-Star Trek) suffers a mild heart attack
1993 - Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible
1994 - 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin
1994 - Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8� year jail sentenced
1994 - H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary electio
1994 - India army kills 27 Moslem militants
1994 - Jesse Timmedequas, rapes and murders Megan Kanka, 7 (Megan's Law)
1994 - Parliamentary election in Aruba
1995 - Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis
1995 - Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their first NFL exhibition game 20-14
1997 - US Senior Golf Open ends at Olympia Fields GC, Illinois
