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Events:C/P.
335 Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
1356 Battle of Poitiers: an English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures the French king, John II.
1676 Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
1692 Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
1777 American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
1778 The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
1796 George Washington's farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
1799 French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
1846 Two French shepherd children, Mιlanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
1862 American Civil War: Battle of Iuka Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.
1863 American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
1870 Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.
1870 Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
1881 U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
1893 Women's suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1934 Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr..
1939 World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
1944 Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
1944 Battle of Hόrtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
1946 The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
1946 The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
1952 The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
1957 First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
1959 Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns.
1961 Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
1970 The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom.
1970 Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of Geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
1971 Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyen Khanh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers.
1972 A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
1973 King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
1976 Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
1976 Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
1978 The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
1981 Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York's Central Park.
1982 Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
1983 Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
1985 A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
1985 Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
1989 A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tωnωrω Desert, Niger, killing 171.
1991 Φtzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
1995 The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
1997 Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
2006 The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
2010 The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
335 Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
1356 Battle of Poitiers: an English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures the French king, John II.
1676 Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
1692 Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
1777 American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
1778 The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
1796 George Washington's farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
1799 French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
1846 Two French shepherd children, Mιlanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
1862 American Civil War: Battle of Iuka Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.
1863 American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
1870 Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.
1870 Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
1881 U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
1893 Women's suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1934 Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr..
1939 World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
1944 Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
1944 Battle of Hόrtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
1946 The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
1946 The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
1952 The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
1957 First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
1959 Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns.
1961 Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
1970 The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom.
1970 Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of Geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
1971 Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyen Khanh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers.
1972 A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
1973 King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
1976 Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
1976 Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
1978 The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
1981 Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York's Central Park.
1982 Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
1983 Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
1985 A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
1985 Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
1989 A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tωnωrω Desert, Niger, killing 171.
1991 Φtzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
1995 The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
1997 Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
2006 The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
2010 The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
End of C/P.