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Events:C/P.
1358 Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
1497 Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
1743 War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
1759 General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
1806 British forces take Buenos Aires during the first British invasions of the Rํo de la Plata.
1844 Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
1895 The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1898 The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
1899 A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.
1905 Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
1923 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
1927 Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China; later, a document detailing these plans, the "Tanaka Memorial" is leaked, although it is now considered a forgery.
1941 Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
1941 German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
1946 In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
1950 The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
1952 Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
1954 The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1954 The 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
1957 Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
1971 After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the "Church of Rock and Roll".
1973 The President of Uruguay Juan Marํa Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
1974 U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
1976 Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
1977 France grants independence to Djibouti.
1980 Italian Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 mysteriously explodes in mid air while in route from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 on board. Also known in Italy as the Ustica disaster
1981 The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
1982 Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
1985 The U.S. Route 66 is closed
1988 Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.
1991 Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
2007 Tony Blair British Prime Minister since 2nd May 1997, resigns
2007 The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemใo in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemใo massacre.
2008 In a highly-scrutizined election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
Events:C/P.
1358 Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
1497 Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
1743 War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
1759 General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
1806 British forces take Buenos Aires during the first British invasions of the Rํo de la Plata.
1844 Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
1895 The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1898 The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
1899 A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.
1905 Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
1923 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
1927 Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China; later, a document detailing these plans, the "Tanaka Memorial" is leaked, although it is now considered a forgery.
1941 Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
1941 German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
1946 In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
1950 The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
1952 Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
1954 The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1954 The 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
1957 Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
1971 After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the "Church of Rock and Roll".
1973 The President of Uruguay Juan Marํa Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
1974 U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
1976 Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
1977 France grants independence to Djibouti.
1980 Italian Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 mysteriously explodes in mid air while in route from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 on board. Also known in Italy as the Ustica disaster
1981 The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
1982 Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
1985 The U.S. Route 66 is closed
1988 Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.
1991 Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
2007 Tony Blair British Prime Minister since 2nd May 1997, resigns
2007 The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemใo in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemใo massacre.
2008 In a highly-scrutizined election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.