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226 Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
1149 Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
1194 Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
1444 Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
1534 Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
1613 The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
1644 Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
1659 At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
1776 First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey
1776 Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
1786 Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1807 Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
1850 Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
1864 Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
1874 Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
1880 France annexes Tahiti.
1881 In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
1888 George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
1889 Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
1895 Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
1914 Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
1916 The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
1922 France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
1926 Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
1927 The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
1927 First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable pitch propeller.
1928 The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
1945 Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
1956 The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
1972 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
1974 Isabel Perσn is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Peron, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
1974 Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
1976 The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
1995 Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
1995 The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
2002 Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2006 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
2007 Apple Inc. releases their first mobile phone, the iPhone.
2012 A derecho strikes the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
Events:C/P.
226 Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
1149 Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
1194 Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
1444 Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
1534 Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
1613 The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
1644 Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
1659 At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
1776 First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey
1776 Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
1786 Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1807 Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
1850 Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
1864 Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
1874 Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
1880 France annexes Tahiti.
1881 In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
1888 George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
1889 Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
1895 Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
1914 Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
1916 The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
1922 France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
1926 Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
1927 The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
1927 First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable pitch propeller.
1928 The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
1945 Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
1956 The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
1972 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
1974 Isabel Perσn is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Peron, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
1974 Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
1976 The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
1995 Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
1995 The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
2002 Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2006 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
2007 Apple Inc. releases their first mobile phone, the iPhone.
2012 A derecho strikes the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.