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3114 BC According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started. (Non-standard interpretation)
394 Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.
1492 Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.
1522 The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlϊcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
1620 The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
1628 Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1634 Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nφrdlingen the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
1781 The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
1847 Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
1861 American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the Tennessee River.
1863 American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
1870 Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
1885 Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
1888 Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
1901 Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1930 Democratically elected Argentine president Hipσlito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
1937 Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1939 World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
1939 World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
1940 King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
1943 The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
1943 The Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
1944 World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.
1944 World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
1946 United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
1948 Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
1949 Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
1952 Canada's first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
1952 A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
1955 Istanbul's Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
1962 Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the 2nd century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
1963 The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
1965 War of 1965: India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which resulted in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate and follows the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
1966 In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
1968 Swaziland becomes independent.
1970 Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
1972 Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group died (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. 2 other Israeli athletes are slain in the initial attack the previous day.
1976 Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.
1983 The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
1985 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
1986 In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
1991 The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
1992 Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher Johnson McCandless at his camp west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
1995 Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.
1997 Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television.
2008 Turkish President Abdullah Gόl attends an association football match in Armenia after an invitation by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisyan; he is the first Turkish head of state to visit the country.
2009 The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
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394 Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.
1492 Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.
1522 The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlϊcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
1620 The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
1628 Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1634 Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nφrdlingen the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
1781 The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
1847 Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
1861 American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the Tennessee River.
1863 American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
1870 Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
1885 Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
1888 Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
1901 Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1930 Democratically elected Argentine president Hipσlito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
1937 Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1939 World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
1939 World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
1940 King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
1943 The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
1943 The Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
1944 World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.
1944 World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
1946 United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
1948 Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
1949 Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
1952 Canada's first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
1952 A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
1955 Istanbul's Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
1962 Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the 2nd century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
1963 The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
1965 War of 1965: India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which resulted in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate and follows the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
1966 In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
1968 Swaziland becomes independent.
1970 Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
1972 Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group died (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. 2 other Israeli athletes are slain in the initial attack the previous day.
1976 Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.
1983 The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
1985 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
1986 In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
1991 The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
1992 Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher Johnson McCandless at his camp west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
1995 Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.
1997 Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television.
2008 Turkish President Abdullah Gόl attends an association football match in Armenia after an invitation by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisyan; he is the first Turkish head of state to visit the country.
2009 The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
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