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456 The Visigoths under king Theodoric II, acting on orders of the Roman emperor Avitus, invade Iberia with an army of Burgundians, Franks and Goths, led by the kings Chilperic I and Gondioc. They defeat the Suebi under king Rechiar on the river Urbicus near Astorga (Gallaecia).
610 Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
869 The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
1143 King Alfonso VII of Leσn and Castile recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
1450 Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
1550 Foundation of Concepciσn, city in Chile.
1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1665 The University of Kiel is founded.
1789 French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI of France about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
1793 French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
1813 Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British and kill Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
1857 The City of Anaheim, California is founded.
1864 The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
1869 The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
1877 Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
1895 The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
1903 Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
1905 Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
1910 In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
1911 The KowloonCanton Railway (split into MTR East Rail Line and Guangshen Railway now) commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
1914 World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.
1915 Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1921 Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time.
1930 British Airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
1936 The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1938 In Nazi Germany Jews' passports were invalidated, and those who needed a passport for emigration purposes were given one marked with the letter J (Jude Jew).
1943 Ninety-eight American POW's executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
1944 Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
1944 Suffrage is extended to women in France.
1945 Hollywood Black Friday: A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.
1947 The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
1948 The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
1953 The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
1955 Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
1962 Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
1962 The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do" backed with "P.S. I Love You", is released in the United Kingdom.
1966 Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
1968 Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
1969 The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on BBC One.
1970 The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
1970 Montreal: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis.
1973 Signature of the European Patent Convention.
1974 Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
1975 Operation Primicia: terrorist attack against a Military Regiment at Formosa, Argentina.
1982 Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.
1984 Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
1986 Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".
1988 The Chilean opposition coalition Concertaciσn (center-left) defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt and a general election is called the following year.
1988 The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by the Constituent Assembly.
1990 After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
1991 An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
1991 The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
1999 The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
2000 Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Miloević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
2001 Barry Bonds surpassed Mark McGwire's single-season home run total with his milestone 71st and 72nd home runs.
2011 In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered in the lawless Golden Triangle region of Southeast Asia.
Events:C/P.
456 The Visigoths under king Theodoric II, acting on orders of the Roman emperor Avitus, invade Iberia with an army of Burgundians, Franks and Goths, led by the kings Chilperic I and Gondioc. They defeat the Suebi under king Rechiar on the river Urbicus near Astorga (Gallaecia).
610 Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
869 The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
1143 King Alfonso VII of Leσn and Castile recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
1450 Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
1550 Foundation of Concepciσn, city in Chile.
1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1665 The University of Kiel is founded.
1789 French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI of France about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
1793 French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
1813 Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British and kill Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
1857 The City of Anaheim, California is founded.
1864 The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
1869 The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
1877 Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
1895 The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
1903 Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
1905 Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
1910 In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
1911 The KowloonCanton Railway (split into MTR East Rail Line and Guangshen Railway now) commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
1914 World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.
1915 Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1921 Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time.
1930 British Airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
1936 The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1938 In Nazi Germany Jews' passports were invalidated, and those who needed a passport for emigration purposes were given one marked with the letter J (Jude Jew).
1943 Ninety-eight American POW's executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
1944 Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
1944 Suffrage is extended to women in France.
1945 Hollywood Black Friday: A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.
1947 The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
1948 The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
1953 The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
1955 Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
1962 Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
1962 The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do" backed with "P.S. I Love You", is released in the United Kingdom.
1966 Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
1968 Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
1969 The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on BBC One.
1970 The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
1970 Montreal: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis.
1973 Signature of the European Patent Convention.
1974 Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
1975 Operation Primicia: terrorist attack against a Military Regiment at Formosa, Argentina.
1982 Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.
1984 Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
1986 Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".
1988 The Chilean opposition coalition Concertaciσn (center-left) defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt and a general election is called the following year.
1988 The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by the Constituent Assembly.
1990 After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
1991 An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
1991 The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
1999 The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
2000 Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Miloević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
2001 Barry Bonds surpassed Mark McGwire's single-season home run total with his milestone 71st and 72nd home runs.
2011 In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered in the lawless Golden Triangle region of Southeast Asia.