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Events:C/P.
451 Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
1214 The University of Oxford receives its charter.
1605 After only three months as tsar, 16-year-old Feodor II of Russia is assassinated.
1631 The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
1652 Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa is appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire.
1685 Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
1756 A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
1782 The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
1787 Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
1789 Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
1819 The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
1837 Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
1840 Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1862 Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
1863 American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
1877 Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1887 Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay.
1893 Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
1895 The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
1900 Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
1919 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagόez, Puerto Rico.
1921 Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
1942 The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbδnde, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1943 The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
1944 World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
1944 Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful VyborgPetrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
1948 Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
1956 A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
1959 A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
1960 The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
1963 The so-called "red telephone" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1972 Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
1973 Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.
1979 ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
1982 The Argentine base (Corbeta Uruguay) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
1990 Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
1991 The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
2003 The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
2009 During the Iranian election protests, the death of Neda Agha-Soltan is captured on video and spreads virally on the Internet, making it "probably the most widely witnessed death in human history".
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
451 Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
1214 The University of Oxford receives its charter.
1605 After only three months as tsar, 16-year-old Feodor II of Russia is assassinated.
1631 The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
1652 Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa is appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire.
1685 Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
1756 A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
1782 The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
1787 Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
1789 Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
1819 The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
1837 Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
1840 Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1862 Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
1863 American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
1877 Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1887 Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay.
1893 Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
1895 The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
1900 Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
1919 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagόez, Puerto Rico.
1921 Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
1942 The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbδnde, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1943 The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
1944 World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
1944 Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful VyborgPetrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
1948 Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
1956 A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
1959 A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
1960 The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
1963 The so-called "red telephone" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1972 Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
1973 Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.
1979 ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
1982 The Argentine base (Corbeta Uruguay) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
1990 Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
1991 The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
2003 The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
2009 During the Iranian election protests, the death of Neda Agha-Soltan is captured on video and spreads virally on the Internet, making it "probably the most widely witnessed death in human history".
End of C/P.