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Events:C/P.
1190 Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
1539 Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
1619 Thirty Years' War: Battle of Zαblatν, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
1624 Signing of the Treaty of Compiθgne between France and the Netherlands.
1692 Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
1719 Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
1786 A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
1793 The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
1793 French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
1805 First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
1829 The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
1838 Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
1854 The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.
1861 American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel. Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads. Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
1871 Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U.S. Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
1878 League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece.
1886 Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
1898 Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
1918 The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent Istvαn sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
1924 Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
1925 Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
1935 Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
1935 Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
1936 The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.
1940 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
1940 World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
1942 World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
1944 World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
1944 World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
1944 In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
1945 Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
1947 Saab produces its first automobile.
1957 John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
1965 Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
1967 The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
1967 Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1977 James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
1977 Apple ships its first Apple II personal computer.
1980 The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
1991 The kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard
1996 Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Fιin.
1997 Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.
1999 Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Miloević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
2001 Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
2002 The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
2003 The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
1190 Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
1539 Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
1619 Thirty Years' War: Battle of Zαblatν, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
1624 Signing of the Treaty of Compiθgne between France and the Netherlands.
1692 Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
1719 Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
1786 A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
1793 The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
1793 French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
1805 First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
1829 The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
1838 Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
1854 The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.
1861 American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel. Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads. Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
1871 Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U.S. Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
1878 League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece.
1886 Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
1898 Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
1918 The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent Istvαn sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
1924 Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
1925 Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
1935 Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
1935 Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
1936 The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.
1940 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
1940 World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
1942 World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
1944 World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
1944 World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
1944 In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
1945 Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
1947 Saab produces its first automobile.
1957 John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
1965 Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
1967 The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
1967 Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1977 James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
1977 Apple ships its first Apple II personal computer.
1980 The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
1991 The kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard
1996 Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Fιin.
1997 Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.
1999 Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Miloević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
2001 Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
2002 The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
2003 The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
End of C/P.