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Events:C/P.
221 Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
699 En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima.
1409 Western Schism: the Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
1541 Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
1718 Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1723 After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
1740 A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1848 End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1857 The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
1870 The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1886 Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
1906 1906 French Grand Prix, the first Grand Prix motor racing event held
1907 The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
1909 The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
1917 The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
1918 World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1924 American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
1927 The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
1936 Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
1940 World War II: under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
1941 World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Koice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
1942 The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
1944 World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, ends with the defeat of the Polish resistance forces.
1945 The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
1948 The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
1948 William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
1948 Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
1952 The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties.
1953 Lavrentiy Beria,head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
1955 The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
1959 The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
1960 The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
1960 Madagascar gains its independence from France.
1963 U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
1973 At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
1974 The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
1975 The State of Emergency is declared in India.
1975 Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1977 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute.
1978 Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
1991 Ten-Day War: the Yugoslav people's army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
1995 Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
1996 Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
1997 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
2003 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
2006 Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
2012 The Waldo Canyon Fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
Events:C/P.
221 Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
699 En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima.
1409 Western Schism: the Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
1541 Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
1718 Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1723 After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
1740 A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1848 End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1857 The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
1870 The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1886 Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
1906 1906 French Grand Prix, the first Grand Prix motor racing event held
1907 The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
1909 The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
1917 The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
1918 World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1924 American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
1927 The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
1936 Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
1940 World War II: under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
1941 World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Koice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
1942 The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
1944 World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, ends with the defeat of the Polish resistance forces.
1945 The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
1948 The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
1948 William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
1948 Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
1952 The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties.
1953 Lavrentiy Beria,head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
1955 The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
1959 The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
1960 The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
1960 Madagascar gains its independence from France.
1963 U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
1973 At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
1974 The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
1975 The State of Emergency is declared in India.
1975 Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1977 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute.
1978 Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
1991 Ten-Day War: the Yugoslav people's army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
1995 Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
1996 Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
1997 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
2003 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
2006 Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
2012 The Waldo Canyon Fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.