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[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

  • 1746-Philip V of Spain

[edit] Events

  • 455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
  • 1357 5:31 AM - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assisted laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague
  • 1540 - Henry VIII of England annulled his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
  • 1749 - Naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia founded as British answer to Louisbourg.
  • 1755 - French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition - British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat to French and Native American forces. During the battle, British General Edward Braddock is mortally wounded. Colonel George Washington survives.
  • 1789 - In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
  • 1790 - Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - In the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
  • 1793 - Act Against Slavery passed in Upper Canada and importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
  • 1815 - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente becomes Prime Minister of France
  • 1816 - Argentina declares independence from Spain
  • 1846 - By an Act of Congress, the Washington, DC area south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia.
  • 1850 - US President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States.
  • 1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech.
  • 1900 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gives royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
  • 1918 - Great train wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
  • 1922 - Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking a world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
  • 1942 - Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
  • 1943 - World War II: Operation Husky - Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.
  • 1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy - British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France.
  • 1945 - A forest fire breaks out in the Tillamook Burn, the third fire in that area since 1933.
  • 1955 - The Russell-Einstein Manifesto was released by Bertrand Russell in London.
  • 1968 - Official opening of Hayward Gallery on London's South Bank.
  • 1979 - A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
  • 1982 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 people on board and eight others on the ground.
  • 1989 - Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
  • 1991 - International Human Rights Federation cites human rights violations committed by police and military personnel during Oka crisis in Quebec, Canada.
  • 1991 - South Africa is reintroduced into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion.
  • 1992 - Democratic President of the United States|presidential nominee Bill Clinton announces that Tennessee Senator Al Gore will be his running mate.
  • 1997 - Mike Tyson's boxing license is suspended for at least a year and he is fined $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield's ear in a televised match.
  • 1999 - Days of student protests begins after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory of University of Tehran
  • 2002 - The African Union was established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman was Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
  • 2004 - After José Manuel Durão Barroso's appointment to the European Commission, Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio announces that he will invite the second-in-line leader of PSD, Pedro Santana Lopes to form government.