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193 - Roman Emperor Marcus Didius is killed in his big house.
1283 - Treaty of Rheinfelden - Duke Rudolph II of Austria has to waive his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria.
1485 - Matthias of Hungary took Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and made the city his capital.
1495 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
1533 - Henry VIII of England's new wife, Anne Boleyn, is crowned as queen.
1660 - Mary Dyer is hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. She is considered to be the last religious martyr in North America.
1779 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property.
1792 - Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the United States.
1796 - Tennessee becomes the 16th state in the United States.
1812 - War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the United States Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
1813 - The United States Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said, 'Don't give up the ship'.
1815 - Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
1831 - James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula.
1847 - Zeta Psi Fraternity is founded.
1855 - American adventurer William Walker defeats Nicaragua and brings back slavery.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Fair Oaks ends - Both sides claim victory.
1869 - Thomas Edison of Boston, Massachusetts, received a patent for his electric voting machine.
1879 - Eugene Louis Napoleon, Prince of France killed in the Zulu Wars
1890 - The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
1898 - The Trans-Mississippi Exposition world's fair opens in Omaha, Nebraska.
1907 - Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded either for a county cricket match or a single day's bowling, and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956.
1909 - The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition world's fair opens in Seattle, Washington.
1910 - Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England
1918 - World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood begins -
1921 - Tulsa Race Riot: A race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma kills at least 85 people.
1922 - Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
1925 - Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees played the first game in his record streak of 2,130 games in a row, an endurance record in major league baseball that stood until Cal Ripken, Jr. broke it in 1995.
1935 - First driving tests introduced in Britain.
1938 - Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
1938 - Protective baseball helmets were worn by people with bats for the very first time.
1941 - World War II: Battle of Crete ends - Crete capitulates to Germany.
1943 - A not soldier flight from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all on the plane, including actor Leslie Howard.
1954 - The Peanuts comic strip character Linus van Pelt is shown with a security blanket for the first time. [1]
1958 - Charles De Gaulle is brought out of resting to lead France by order for six months.
1967 - The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests.
1974 - Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant in Flixborough, UK kills 28 people.
1978 - The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
1979 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, ousting Ian Smith and changing its name to Zimbabwe
1980 - The Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1990 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and start destroying each of their nation's stockpiles.
2000 - The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
2003 - The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the massive Three Gorges Dam, raising the water level near the dam over 100 meters.

[change] Births

1889 - Charles Kay Ogden, book writer who created the idea of Basic English
1974 - Alanis Morissette, a Canadian singer
1985 - Udhayakumar,India

[change] Deaths

195 BC - Gaozu of Han of China (born 256 BC or 247 BC)
1846 - Pope Gregory XVI (born 1765)
1868 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (born 1791)
1876 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (born 1848)
1927 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (born 1861)
1943 - Leslie Howard, English actor (born 1893)
1946 - Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister and dictator (born 1882)
1948 - Sonny Boy Williamson, American blues musician
1959 - Sax Rohmer, English author (born 1883)
1960 - Lester Patrick, ice hockey star (born 1883)
1966 - Papa Jack Laine, American jazz musician (born 1873)
1968 - Helen Keller, American humanitarian (born 1880)
1971 - Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologist (born 1892)
1980 - Rube Marquard, American Baseball Hall of Famer (born 1886)
1981 - Carl Vinson, United States Congressman (born 1883)
1984 - Nat Nelson, singer
1994 - Frances Heflin, American soap opera actress (born 1923)
1999 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (born 1920)
2001 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace
2001 - King Birendra (born 1945) and Queen Aiswarya of Nepal, (shot, possibly murdered)
2002 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (born 1969)
2003 - Gerhard Rentzsch, radio play author
2004 - William Manchester, American biographer, novelist
2004 - Satomi Mitarai, Japanese student, murdered by a classmate