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Events:C/P.
64 Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned.
484 Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital.
711 Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic.
1333 Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill The English win a decisive victory over the Scots.
1544 Italian War of 15421546: the first Siege of Boulogne begins.
1545 The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology.
1553 Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only nine days of reign.
1588 Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.
1701 Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
1702 Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.
1832 The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.
1843 Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
1848 Women's rights: a two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York; there the "Bloomers" are introduced.
1863 American Civil War: Morgan's Raid At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
1864 Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking The Qing Dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
1870 Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
1900 The first line of the Paris Mιtro opens for operation.
1908 Dutch football/soccer club Feyenoord was founded
1916 World War I: Battle of Fromelles British and Australian troops attack German trenches in a prelude to the Battle of the Somme.
1919 Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen riot and burn down Luton Town Hall.
1940 World War II: Battle of Cape Spada The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
1940 World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
1942 World War II: Battle of the Atlantic German Grand Admiral Karl Dφnitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.
1947 The Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members are assassinated by Galon U Saw.
1947 Korean politician Yuh Woon-Hyung is assassinated.
1952 The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were opened in Helsinki, Finland.
1961 Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
1963 Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
1964 Vietnam War: at a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
1972 Dhofar Rebellion: British SAS units help the Omani government against Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman rebels in the Battle of Mirbat.
1976 Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
1979 The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
1981 In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister Franηois Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.
1983 The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
1985 The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
1989 United Airlines Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers.
1992 A car bomb placed by mafia with collaboration of Italian intelligence kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort
1997 The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
64 Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned.
484 Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital.
711 Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic.
1333 Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill The English win a decisive victory over the Scots.
1544 Italian War of 15421546: the first Siege of Boulogne begins.
1545 The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology.
1553 Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only nine days of reign.
1588 Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.
1701 Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
1702 Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.
1832 The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.
1843 Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
1848 Women's rights: a two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York; there the "Bloomers" are introduced.
1863 American Civil War: Morgan's Raid At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
1864 Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking The Qing Dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
1870 Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
1900 The first line of the Paris Mιtro opens for operation.
1908 Dutch football/soccer club Feyenoord was founded
1916 World War I: Battle of Fromelles British and Australian troops attack German trenches in a prelude to the Battle of the Somme.
1919 Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen riot and burn down Luton Town Hall.
1940 World War II: Battle of Cape Spada The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
1940 World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
1942 World War II: Battle of the Atlantic German Grand Admiral Karl Dφnitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.
1947 The Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members are assassinated by Galon U Saw.
1947 Korean politician Yuh Woon-Hyung is assassinated.
1952 The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were opened in Helsinki, Finland.
1961 Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
1963 Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
1964 Vietnam War: at a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
1972 Dhofar Rebellion: British SAS units help the Omani government against Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman rebels in the Battle of Mirbat.
1976 Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
1979 The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
1981 In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister Franηois Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.
1983 The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
1985 The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
1989 United Airlines Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers.
1992 A car bomb placed by mafia with collaboration of Italian intelligence kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort
1997 The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
End of C/P.