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1220 Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
1503 King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1576 The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on Ven, Denmark.
1585 John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
1588 Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
1605 The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
1647 The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungan's Hill English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
1709 Bartolomeu de Gusmγo demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal
1786 Mont Blanc on the French Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
1793 The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
1794 Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
1844 The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
1863 American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
1870 The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
1876 Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
1885 More than 1.5 million people attend the funeral of Ulysses S. Grant in New York City.
1908 Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
1918 World War I: the Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
1927 The predecessor to the Philippine Stock Exchange opens.
1929 The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
1940 The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.
1942 Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
1946 First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.
1960 South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
1963 Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes.
1963 The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling party of Zimbabwe, is formed by a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union.
1967 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
1969 At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road.
1973 Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
1974 President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
1980 The Central Hotel Fire occurs in Bundoran, Ireland.
1988 The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma.
1989 Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
1990 Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
1991 The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
2000 Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
2007 An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
2008 A EuroCity express train en route from Krakσw, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studιnka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.
2010 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
2013 A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.
Events:C/P.
1220 Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
1503 King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1576 The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on Ven, Denmark.
1585 John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
1588 Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
1605 The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
1647 The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungan's Hill English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
1709 Bartolomeu de Gusmγo demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal
1786 Mont Blanc on the French Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
1793 The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
1794 Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
1844 The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
1863 American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
1870 The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
1876 Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
1885 More than 1.5 million people attend the funeral of Ulysses S. Grant in New York City.
1908 Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
1918 World War I: the Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
1927 The predecessor to the Philippine Stock Exchange opens.
1929 The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
1940 The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.
1942 Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
1946 First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.
1960 South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
1963 Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes.
1963 The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling party of Zimbabwe, is formed by a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union.
1967 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
1969 At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road.
1973 Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
1974 President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
1980 The Central Hotel Fire occurs in Bundoran, Ireland.
1988 The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma.
1989 Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
1990 Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
1991 The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
2000 Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
2007 An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
2008 A EuroCity express train en route from Krakσw, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studιnka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.
2010 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
2013 A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.