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    671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measure time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.
    1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
    1329 – The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine defeat by the Ottoman Empire.
    1523 – Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city won't recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark.
    1539 – Council of Trent: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
    1596 – Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island.
    1619 – Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
    1624 – Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.
    1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
    1719 – Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel.
    1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
    1793 – The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
    1793 – French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
    1805 – First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
    1829 – The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
    1838 – Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
    1854 – The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.
    1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
    1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
    1871 – Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
    1878 – League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece.
    1886 – Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for 3 months creating a large, 17 km long fissure across the mountain peak.
    1898 – Spanish–American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
    1912 – The Villisca Axe Murders were discovered in Villisca, Iowa.
    1916 – An Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire led by Lawrence of Arabia breaks out.
    1918 – The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
    1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
    1925 – Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
    1935 – Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
    1935 – Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
    1936 – The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.
    1940 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
    1940 – World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
    1940 – World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
    1942 – World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
    1944 – World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
    1944 – World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
    1944 – In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
    1945 – Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
    1947 – Saab produces its first automobile.
    1957 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.
    1963 – Equal Pay Act of 1963 aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see Gender pay gap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963 by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program
    1964 – United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage.
    1967 – The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
    1967 – Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
    1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
    1977 – The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
    1980 – The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
    1990 – British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities
    1991 – Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.
    1996 – Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
    1997 – Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.
    1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
    2001 – Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
    2002 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
    2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
    2003 – Wicked opens on Broadway, proceeding to win 40 awards just for the Broadway production.


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    1996 Miami Florida -Colorado Avalanche goalie Patrick Roy makes 63 saves for his third post season shutout, and Uwe Krupp scores at 4:31 of the third overtime, as the Avs beat the Florida Panthers 1-0 in triple overtime to take their first Stanley Cup with a four-game sweep; third longest game in Stanley Cup finals history.
    1992 New York City - International Court of Arbitration gives France control zone of 24 nautical miles around St-Pierre-Miquelon; plus 10.5 mile corridor from sea; only 18% of what France wanted.
    1991 Ottawa Ontario - David Croll dies at 91; MPP 1934, MP 1945; Senate 1955; chaired committees on aging, credit and poverty; immigrated from Russia in 1905.
    1990 Fredericton New Brunswick - Frank McKenna passes Meech Lake accord in the provincial legislature after his concerns are addressed in a compromise meeting.
    1985 London England - Toronto financier Conrad Black acquires 14% of The Daily Telegraph newspaper for $17 million; will later win control.
    1984 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- returns to Canada after tour of D-Day battlefields in Europe and 3-day Western summit in London.
    1982 Montreal Quebec - CFL Montreal Concordes lose to Toronto in their first game; football team will later revert to former name, the Alouettes, but eventually fold.
    1981 Calgary Alberta - Dome Petroleum buys Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas.
    1979 NWT Canada - Energy, Mines, and Resources dismantles Project Lorex, or the Lomonsov Ridge Experiment; scientific station set up on the Arctic ice to study a submarine ocean range had drifted 240 km across the North Pole since April; Gov. Gen. Ed Schreyer, Prince Charles and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau made scuba dives from the project.
    1976 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises export price of natural gas to the US by 21%.
    1971 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament creates new Department of the Environment under a Minister of State; Canada also agrees in principle on a joint attack with the U.S. on pollution in the Great Lakes.
    1966 Vancouver BC - CPR signs deal with National Harbours Board to end 30-year argument over Vancouver waterfront; enables development of waterfront.
    1965 Ottawa Ontario - Lal Bahadur Shastri Prime Minister of India arrives in Ottawa for a five-day visit.
    1947 Ottawa Ontario - US President Harry S. Truman starts two-day visit to Ottawa; first president to pay a state visit to Canada.
    1942 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King justifies his wartime policy by stating that the best approach is: 'Conscription if necessary but not necessarily conscription.'.
    1940 Canada - Defence Minister Norman Rogers killed in a plane crash.
    1940 Ottawa Ontario - Canada declares war on Italy; the same day, Italy declares war on France and Britain; World War II.
    1930 Winnipeg Manitoba - Founding of the Winnipeg Rugby Football Club; today's Blue Bombers.
    1925 Toronto Ontario - United Church of Canada holds first service under its new name; merger of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches.
    1884 Montana - Louis Riel leaves his teaching post to return to Canada to lead what was to become the Northwest Rebellion.
    1878 Victoria BC - Fort Rod Hill built to protect Esquimalt in the event of a war with Russia.
    1857 Kingston Ontario - Canadian Assembly passes bill bringing in the American decimal (dollar) system of currency; goes into effect midnight, Dec. 31.
    1857 Quebec - St. Hyacinthe and Trois-Rivières incorporated as cities.
    1842 New York City - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 moves his family to New York to try and start a printing business.
    1839 Canandaigua New York - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 sentenced to eighteen months in jail for violating US neutrality laws.
    1838 Pelham Ontario - James Morreau leads a rebel raiding party across the Niagara River; attacks St. Johns, in Pelham Township June 11; gets as far as Short Hills by June 21.
    1817 Toronto Ontario - Samuel Smith 1756-1826 appointed administrator of Upper Canada; serves from June 11, 1817 to Aug. 13, 1818.
    1791 London England - Parliament passes the Constitutional Act, providing for the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, each with a separate legislature.
    1650 Midland Ontario - Jesuits abandon Ile Saint-Joseph, their last mission in Huronia, established in 1623; return to Quebec carrying the bleached bones of two martyrs, Fathers Jean de Brébeuf and Jérôme Lalement, who had been tortured and killed by the Iroquois; Hurons also flee to Quebec, and settle at Lorette.
    1611 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Pierre Biard c1567-1622 writes first recorded letter sent to France from the new world; Jesuit missionary at Port Royal.
    1527 Gravesend England - Royal Navy captain John Rut, sent by Henry VIII, leaves on the Mary Guildford and the Samson on an expedition to find a passage to Asia; Samson lost at sea.

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