This date in history

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1099 - Crusade leaders visited the Mount of Olives where they met a hermit who urged them to assault Jerusalem.

1665 - England installed a municipal government in New York. It was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

1812 - Napoleon's invasion of Russia began.

1918 - The first air plane bombing raid by an American unit occurred on World War I's Western Front in France.

1981 - "Raiders of the Lost Ark" opened in the U.S.

1999 - NATO peacekeeping forces entered the province of Kosovo in Yugoslavia.

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1777 - Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit

1866 - US House of representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights)

1917 - World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.

1942 - Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island

1944 - Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) flying bomb (doodle-bugs) attacks

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1789 - Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrived in Timor in a small boat.

1841 - The first Canadian parliament opened in Kingston.

1900 - Hawaii became a US territory.

1907 - Women in Norway won the right to vote.

1917 - General John Pershing arrived in Paris during World War I.

1940 - The Nazis opened their concentration camp at Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland.

1940 - German troops entered Paris. As Paris became occupied loud speakers announced the implementation of a curfew being imposed for 8 p.m.

1944 - Sixty B-29 Superfortress' attacked an iron and steel works factory on Honshu Island. It was the first U.S. raid against mainland Japan.

1945 - Burma was liberated by Britain.

2014 - England and Leeds Rhinos captain Kevin Sinfield receives an MBE

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1775 - US Army founded

1846 - California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma, declaring independence from Mexico

1934 - Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet in Vienna

1942 - Anne Frank begins her diary

1944 - General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France

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1215 - King John of England put his seal on the Magna Carta.

1917 - Great Britain pledged the release of all the Irish captured during the Easter Rebellion of 1916.

1940 - The French fortress of Verdun was captured by Germans.

1944 - American forces began their successful invasion of Saipan during World War II.

1982 - In the capital city of Stanley, the Falklands war ended as Argentine troops surrendered to the British.

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1389 - Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs

1804 - 12th amendment to the US constitution ratified; deals with manner of choosing president

1864 - US Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers

1982 - Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat

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0455 - Rome was sacked by the Vandal army.

1487 - The War of the Roses ended with the Battle of Stoke.

1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland.

1815 - Napoleon defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny, Netherlands.

1940 - Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain became the prime minister of the Vichy government of occupied France.

1972 - Ulrike Meinhof was captured by West German police in Hanover. She was co-founder of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group and the Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion).

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1745 - British fleet occupies Cap Breton on St Lawrence River

1815 - Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia

1900 - In China, a fire is set by Boxers, virtually destroying the Western Quarter and spreading to engulf many Chinese landmarks

1924 - South Africa all out 30 v England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7

1982 - Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners

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1579 - Sir Francis Drake claimed San Francisco Bay for England.

1775 - The British took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.

1917 - The Russian Duma met in a secret session in Petrograd and voted for an immediate Russian offensive against the German Army.

1940 - The Soviet Union occupied Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

1940 - France asked Germany for terms of surrender in World War II.

1944 - French troops landed on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.

1944 - The republic of Iceland was established.

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1497 - Battle of Deptford Bridge - forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat Cornish rebels led by Michael An Gof.

1837 - Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent

1885 - Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'

1917 - British king George V takes the name Windsor

1982 - President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat

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1178 - Five monks at Canterbury report explosion on moon (only known observation)

1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.

1940 - Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"

1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) charged with treason

2006 - The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.

[Sailor Steve]

1621 The first duel in America took place in the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.

1812 The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great Britain.

1873 Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote for a U.S. President.

1927 The U.S. Post Office offered a special 10-cent postage stamp for sale. The stamp was of Charles Lindbergh’s "Spirit of St. Louis."

1936 Charles "Lucky" Luciano was found guilty on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution.

1942 The U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.

1948 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.

1953 Seventeen major-league baseball records were tied or broken in a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers.

1959 A Federal Court annulled the Arkansas law allowing school closings to prevent integration.

1959 The first telecast received from England was broadcast in the U.S. over NBC-TV.

1983 Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

1996 Richard Allen Davis was convicted in San Jose, CA, of the 1993 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas.

1998 The Boston Globe asked Patricia Smith to resign after she admitted to inventing people and quotes in four of her recent columns.

1999 Walt Disney's "Tarzan" opened.

2000 In Algiers, Algeria, the foreign ministers of Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a preliminary cease-fire accord and agreed to work toward a permanent settlement of their two-year border war.

2002 In Jerusalem, a suicide bomber killed 19 people and injured at least 50 more on a city bus. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.


2014 Sailor Steve fell victim to the CopyPasta fad.

[Sailor Steve]

Oh yeah - today is Paul McCarney's 72nd birthday.

[Jimbuna]

1306 - The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Robert Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.

1829 - Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)

1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip"

1917 - King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles & surnames, they take the name Windsor

1988 - World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 1/8 miles long

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0451 - Roman and Barbarian warriors brought Attila's army to a halt at the Catalaunian Plains in eastern France.

1756 - In India, 150 British soldiers were imprisoned in a cell that became known as the "Black Hole of Calcutta."