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Events;C/P.
30 BC Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
69 Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
527 Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
607 Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
902 Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabids army.
1192 Richard the Lionheart landed on Jaffa and defeated the army of Saladin
1203 Isaac II Angelos, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
1291 The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
1498 Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
1620 The Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.
1664 The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvαr.
1759 Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
1798 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
1800 The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1801 First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
1831 A new London Bridge opens.
1834 Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
1838 Non-laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1840 Laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1842 The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1855 The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
1876 Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
1894 The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
1907 The start of first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
1914 Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
1927 The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
1937 Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
1944 The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
1957 The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
1960 Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
1960 Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
1964 The Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1966 Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
1966 Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1968 The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
1974 Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones.
1975 CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
1980 Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in the Republic of Ireland
1980 Vigdνs Finnbogadσttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the country's first democratically elected female head of state
1981 MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles.
1984 Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, northwest England
1993 The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
2001 Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
2004 A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunciσn, Paraguay.
2007 The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
End of C/P.
Events;C/P.
30 BC Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
69 Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
527 Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
607 Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
902 Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabids army.
1192 Richard the Lionheart landed on Jaffa and defeated the army of Saladin
1203 Isaac II Angelos, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
1291 The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
1498 Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
1620 The Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.
1664 The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvαr.
1759 Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
1798 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
1800 The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1801 First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
1831 A new London Bridge opens.
1834 Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
1838 Non-laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1840 Laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1842 The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1855 The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
1876 Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
1894 The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
1907 The start of first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
1914 Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
1927 The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
1937 Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
1944 The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
1957 The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
1960 Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
1960 Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
1964 The Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1966 Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
1966 Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1968 The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
1974 Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones.
1975 CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
1980 Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in the Republic of Ireland
1980 Vigdνs Finnbogadσttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the country's first democratically elected female head of state
1981 MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles.
1984 Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, northwest England
1993 The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
2001 Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
2004 A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunciσn, Paraguay.
2007 The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
End of C/P.