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Events:C/P.
1187 Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1263 The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
1470 A rebellion organised by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.
1535 Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal, Quebec is located.
1552 Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
1780 John Andr้, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
1789 George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
1814 Battle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists troops under Mariano Osorio defeated rebel Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose Miguel Carrera.
1835 The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Saltville Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
1889 In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
1919 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
1925 John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
1928 The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint Josemarํa Escrivแ.
1937 Dominican Republic strongman Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands; approximately 20,000 are killed over the next five days.
1941 World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
1942 World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks her own escort ship, HMS Cura็ao, off the coast of Ireland.
1944 World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
1950 Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published
1958 Guinea declares its independence from France.
1959 The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
1967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
1968 A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City culminates in the Tlatelolco massacre.
1970 A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
1979 Pope John Paul II denounces all forms of concentration camps and torture while speaking at the U.N. in New York City.
1980 Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War
1990 Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
1992 The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in Sใo Paulo, Brazil.
1996 The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996 Aeroper๚ Flight 603, a Boeing 757, crashes into the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
2001 NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.
2002 The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
2005 Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
2006 Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
2007 President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
Events:C/P.
1187 Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1263 The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
1470 A rebellion organised by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.
1535 Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal, Quebec is located.
1552 Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
1780 John Andr้, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
1789 George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
1814 Battle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists troops under Mariano Osorio defeated rebel Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose Miguel Carrera.
1835 The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Saltville Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
1889 In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
1919 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
1925 John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
1928 The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint Josemarํa Escrivแ.
1937 Dominican Republic strongman Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands; approximately 20,000 are killed over the next five days.
1941 World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
1942 World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks her own escort ship, HMS Cura็ao, off the coast of Ireland.
1944 World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
1950 Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published
1958 Guinea declares its independence from France.
1959 The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
1967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
1968 A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City culminates in the Tlatelolco massacre.
1970 A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
1979 Pope John Paul II denounces all forms of concentration camps and torture while speaking at the U.N. in New York City.
1980 Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War
1990 Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
1992 The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in Sใo Paulo, Brazil.
1996 The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996 Aeroper๚ Flight 603, a Boeing 757, crashes into the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
2001 NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.
2002 The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
2005 Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
2006 Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
2007 President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.