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Events:C/P.
657 First Fitna: the Battle of Siffin see the troops led by Ali ibn Abi Talib and those led by Muawiyah I clashing.
811 Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I I is killed and his heir Staurakios is seriously wounded.
920 Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Lιon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
1309 Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
1469 Wars of the Roses: the Battle of Edgecote Moor pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England takes place.
1509 The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya ascends to the throne, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
1533 Atahualpa, the 13th and last emperor of the Incas, dies by strangulation at the hands of Francisco Pizarro's Spanish conquistadors. His death marks the end of 300 years of Inca civilization.
1581 Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): the northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II.
1745 The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
1758 French and Indian War: the Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
1775 The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.
1788 New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
1803 The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London, England, Great Britain.
1822 Josι de San Martνn arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simσn Bolνvar.
1822 First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia, between the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis.
1847 Liberia declares independence.
1861 American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
1863 American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
1882 Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
1882 The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
1887 Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
1890 In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revoluciσn del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Αngel Juαrez Celman's resignation.
1891 France annexes Tahiti.
1897 Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
1908 United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
1914 Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
1936 The Axis powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
1936 King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
1937 End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
1941 World War II: in response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
1944 World War II: the Soviet Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
1944 The first German V-2 rocket hits the United Kingdom.
1945 The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
1945 The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
1945 The US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
1946 Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport
1947 Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
1948 U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.
1951 Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
1952 King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
1953 Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement
1953 Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
1956 Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.
1957 Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
1958 Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
1963 Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
1963 An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now in the Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.
1963 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan.
1965 Full independence is granted to the Maldives.
1968 Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
1971 Apollo program: launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
1974 Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.
1977 The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
1989 A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
1990 The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George Bush.
2005 Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
2005 Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.
2007 Shambo, a black cow in Wales that had been adopted by the local Hindu community, is slaughtered due to a bovine tuberculosis infection, causing widespread controversy.
2008 56 people are killed and over 200 people are injured in 21 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad bombing in India.
2009 The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
657 First Fitna: the Battle of Siffin see the troops led by Ali ibn Abi Talib and those led by Muawiyah I clashing.
811 Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I I is killed and his heir Staurakios is seriously wounded.
920 Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Lιon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
1309 Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
1469 Wars of the Roses: the Battle of Edgecote Moor pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England takes place.
1509 The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya ascends to the throne, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
1533 Atahualpa, the 13th and last emperor of the Incas, dies by strangulation at the hands of Francisco Pizarro's Spanish conquistadors. His death marks the end of 300 years of Inca civilization.
1581 Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): the northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II.
1745 The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
1758 French and Indian War: the Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
1775 The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.
1788 New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
1803 The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London, England, Great Britain.
1822 Josι de San Martνn arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simσn Bolνvar.
1822 First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia, between the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis.
1847 Liberia declares independence.
1861 American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
1863 American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
1882 Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
1882 The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
1887 Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
1890 In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revoluciσn del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Αngel Juαrez Celman's resignation.
1891 France annexes Tahiti.
1897 Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
1908 United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
1914 Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
1936 The Axis powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
1936 King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
1937 End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
1941 World War II: in response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
1944 World War II: the Soviet Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
1944 The first German V-2 rocket hits the United Kingdom.
1945 The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
1945 The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
1945 The US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
1946 Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport
1947 Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
1948 U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.
1951 Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
1952 King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
1953 Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement
1953 Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
1956 Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.
1957 Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
1958 Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
1963 Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
1963 An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now in the Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.
1963 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan.
1965 Full independence is granted to the Maldives.
1968 Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
1971 Apollo program: launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
1974 Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.
1977 The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
1989 A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
1990 The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George Bush.
2005 Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
2005 Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.
2007 Shambo, a black cow in Wales that had been adopted by the local Hindu community, is slaughtered due to a bovine tuberculosis infection, causing widespread controversy.
2008 56 people are killed and over 200 people are injured in 21 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad bombing in India.
2009 The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.
End of C/P.