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69 Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
552 Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy. During the fightings king Totila is mortally wounded.
1097 Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.
1431 The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of Castilian during the Reconquista.
1523 Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.
1569 Union of Lublin: the Kingdom of Poland and the Great Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
1690 Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
1770 Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
1782 American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia see Raid on Lunenburg (1782).
1837 A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
1855 Signing of the Quinault Treaty: the Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
1858 Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
1862 The Russian State Library is founded.
1862 Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
1862 American Civil War: the Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
1863 Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
1863 American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
1867 The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada.
1870 The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
1873 Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
1874 The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
1878 Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1879 Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
1881 The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
1881 General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
1885 The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1890 Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
1898 Spanish-American War: the Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
1903 Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
1908 SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
1911 Germany despatched the gunship Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
1915 Lieutenant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
1916 World War I: First day on the Somme On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
1921 The Communist Party of China is founded.
1923 The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
1931 United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
1935 Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
1942 World War II: first Battle of El Alamein.
1942 The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished.
1943 Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).
1947 The Philippine Air Force is established.
1948 Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
1949 The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin Royal Family.
1957 The International Geophysical Year begins.
1958 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
1958 Flooding of Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
1959 The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference.
1959 Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
1960 Independence of Somalia.
1960 Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its Head of state.
1962 Independence of Rwanda.
1962 Independence of Burundi.
1963 ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.
1963 The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
1966 The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
1967 The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
1967 Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, which officially made Canada its own federal dominion.
1968 The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1968 The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
1968 Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
1970 President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
1972 The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
1976 Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
1978 The Northern Territory in Australia is granted Self-Government.
1979 Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1981 The Wonderland Murders occurred in the early morning hours, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash.
1983 A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
1984 The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
1987 The American radio station WFAN in New York, New York is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
1990 German re-unification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
1991 The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
1997 China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
1999 The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.
2002 The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
2002 A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.
2003 Over 500,000 people protested against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
2004 Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
2006 The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.
2007 Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
2008 Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
Events:C/P.
69 Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
552 Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy. During the fightings king Totila is mortally wounded.
1097 Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.
1431 The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of Castilian during the Reconquista.
1523 Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.
1569 Union of Lublin: the Kingdom of Poland and the Great Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
1690 Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
1770 Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
1782 American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia see Raid on Lunenburg (1782).
1837 A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
1855 Signing of the Quinault Treaty: the Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
1858 Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
1862 The Russian State Library is founded.
1862 Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
1862 American Civil War: the Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
1863 Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
1863 American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
1867 The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada.
1870 The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
1873 Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
1874 The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
1878 Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1879 Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
1881 The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
1881 General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
1885 The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1890 Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
1898 Spanish-American War: the Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
1903 Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
1908 SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
1911 Germany despatched the gunship Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
1915 Lieutenant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
1916 World War I: First day on the Somme On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
1921 The Communist Party of China is founded.
1923 The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
1931 United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
1935 Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
1942 World War II: first Battle of El Alamein.
1942 The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished.
1943 Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).
1947 The Philippine Air Force is established.
1948 Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
1949 The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin Royal Family.
1957 The International Geophysical Year begins.
1958 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
1958 Flooding of Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
1959 The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference.
1959 Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
1960 Independence of Somalia.
1960 Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its Head of state.
1962 Independence of Rwanda.
1962 Independence of Burundi.
1963 ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.
1963 The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
1966 The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
1967 The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
1967 Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, which officially made Canada its own federal dominion.
1968 The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1968 The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
1968 Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
1970 President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
1972 The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
1976 Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
1978 The Northern Territory in Australia is granted Self-Government.
1979 Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1981 The Wonderland Murders occurred in the early morning hours, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash.
1983 A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
1984 The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
1987 The American radio station WFAN in New York, New York is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
1990 German re-unification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
1991 The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
1997 China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
1999 The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.
2002 The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
2002 A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.
2003 Over 500,000 people protested against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
2004 Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
2006 The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.
2007 Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
2008 Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.