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Events:C/P.
30 BC Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
781 The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
904 Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
1009 Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII.
1201 Attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat.
1423 Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant the French army is defeated by the English at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
1451 Jacques Cur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
1492 The Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
1498 On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
1588 The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
1655 Russo-Polish War (16541667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
1658 Aurangzeb is proclaimed Moghul emperor of India.
1667 Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict.
1703 Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
1715 A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under Admiral Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, 9 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
1741 Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
1763 Odawa Chief Pontiac's forces defeat British troops at the Battle of Bloody Run during Pontiac's War.
1777 The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Gilbert du Motier "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
1790 The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
1856 Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
1865 The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
1913 The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest.
1919 German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution, which comes into force on August 14.
1930 The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
1931 New York, New York experimental television station W2XAB (now known as WCBS) begins broadcasts.
1932 The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
1938 Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
1938 Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
1940 Doodlebug Disaster: A doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi-car freight train heading in the opposite direction, killing 43 people.
1941 The Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Gφring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question."
1945 Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
1948 At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
1948 USS Nevada (BB-36) is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships.
1954 First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
1956 Jim Laker becomes the first man to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings as he returns figures of 10/53 in the Australian 2nd innings. This combined with his 9/37 in the first innings gave him match figures of 19/90 in the 4th Test at Old Trafford.
1961 At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in Major League Baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.
1964 Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
1970 Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
1971 Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
1972 The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.
1973 A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
1975 The Troubles: three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
1987 A rare, class F4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
1988 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
1991 The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.
1991 The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other.
1992 Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board.
1992 China General Aviation Flight 7552 from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport to Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport crashes after taking off, killing 108 of the 116 people on board.
1992 Georgia joins the United Nations.
1999 Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
2002 Hebrew University of Jerusalem is attacked when a bomb explodes in a cafeteria, killing 9.
2006 Fidel Castro hands over power to brother Raϊl Castro.
2007 Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
2012 Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the greatest number of medals won at the Olympics.
Events:C/P.
30 BC Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
781 The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
904 Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
1009 Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII.
1201 Attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat.
1423 Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant the French army is defeated by the English at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
1451 Jacques Cur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
1492 The Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
1498 On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
1588 The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
1655 Russo-Polish War (16541667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
1658 Aurangzeb is proclaimed Moghul emperor of India.
1667 Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict.
1703 Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
1715 A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under Admiral Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, 9 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
1741 Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
1763 Odawa Chief Pontiac's forces defeat British troops at the Battle of Bloody Run during Pontiac's War.
1777 The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Gilbert du Motier "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
1790 The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
1856 Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
1865 The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
1913 The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest.
1919 German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution, which comes into force on August 14.
1930 The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
1931 New York, New York experimental television station W2XAB (now known as WCBS) begins broadcasts.
1932 The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
1938 Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
1938 Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
1940 Doodlebug Disaster: A doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi-car freight train heading in the opposite direction, killing 43 people.
1941 The Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Gφring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question."
1945 Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
1948 At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
1948 USS Nevada (BB-36) is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships.
1954 First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
1956 Jim Laker becomes the first man to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings as he returns figures of 10/53 in the Australian 2nd innings. This combined with his 9/37 in the first innings gave him match figures of 19/90 in the 4th Test at Old Trafford.
1961 At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in Major League Baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.
1964 Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
1970 Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
1971 Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
1972 The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.
1973 A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
1975 The Troubles: three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
1987 A rare, class F4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
1988 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
1991 The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.
1991 The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other.
1992 Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board.
1992 China General Aviation Flight 7552 from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport to Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport crashes after taking off, killing 108 of the 116 people on board.
1992 Georgia joins the United Nations.
1999 Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
2002 Hebrew University of Jerusalem is attacked when a bomb explodes in a cafeteria, killing 9.
2006 Fidel Castro hands over power to brother Raϊl Castro.
2007 Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
2012 Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the greatest number of medals won at the Olympics.