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0930: Death of Fr. Hucbald
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1080: Election of Pope Clement III
(Antipope)
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1178: The monks of Canterbury, England,
report seeing an explosion on the Moon
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1183: Peace of Constance
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1291: Death of Queen Eleanor, widow of
Henry III, King of England
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1471: The Duomo in Florence is completed
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1474 :Toscanelli sends his Map Of The World
to Fernan Martins de Roriz, and also to Columbus, showing the world was round
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1483: Richard III claims the Crown of
England
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1503: Betrothal of Catherine of Aragon to
Henry VIII of England
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1513: Confession of Augsburg, the distinct
break between Catholicisim and Protestantisim
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1560 :Gustav Vasa, King of Sweden,
abdicates in favour of his son, Eric XIV
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1580 :The "Formula Of Concord"
published
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1591: Euphame MacCalyean burned alive in
Scotland for witchcraft
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1594: Margrett Fray and Agatha Birenseng
burned as witches
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1607: Mentally ill emperor Rudolf II signs
Treaty of Lieben, giving up Austria, Hungary & Moravia.
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1630 :Governor John Winthrop introduces the
table fork to America
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1635: The island of Martinique becomes
property of France
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1767: Georg Philipp Telemann died, in
Hamburg. In his lifetime Telemann was more prominent than Bach. Later, his reputation
suffered in part because he wrote so very much stuff that nobody could go through it all.
Nevertheless, some of his better compositions are very good indeed.
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1788: The state of Virginia ratified the US
Constitution.
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1868: Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia,
North Carolina and South Carolina were re-admitted to the Union.
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1876: Gen. George Custer and his force of
208 men were annihilated by Chief Sitting Bull's Sioux warriors at Little Big Horn in
Montana.
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1906: A love triangle came to a violent end
atop New York's Madison Square Garden as architect Stanford White, the building's
designer, was shot to death by Harry Thaw, the jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit.
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1929: President Hoover authorized
construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam.
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1938: R.C., "A Tisket A Tasket"
hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb.
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1942: Some one-thousand British Royal Air
Force bombers raided Bremen, Germany, during World War Two.
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1942: General Dwight Eisenhower is
appointed commander of U.S. troops in Europe.
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1950: North Korean forces invaded South
Korea.
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1951: The first commercial color telecast
took place as CBS transmitted a one-hour special from New York to four other cities.
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1954: Arlene Dahl wed Fernando Lamas
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1962: The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a
decision interpreted as barring prayer in public schools.
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1963: Everyone knows "An American in
Paris." What is less well-known is that the American George Gershwin got a reply.
Darius Milhaud composed something called "A Frenchman in New York." It was
premiered not by the New York Philharmonic, but rather by the Boston Pops.
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1967: The Beatles performed their new song,
"All You Need Is Love," during a live international telecast.
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1975: The People's Republic of Mozambique
came into being, ending nearly five centuries of Portuguese rule.
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1977: R.C., "Gonna Fly Now (Theme From
Rocky)" by Maynard Ferguson peaked at #29 on the pop singles chart.
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1977: Pink Floyd's "Animals"
concert at the Cleveland Stadium sets an international attendance record for tickets sold
for one act.
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1981: The Supreme Court decided that
male-only draft registration was constitutional.
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1983: In Krefeld, West Germany, hundreds of
masked youths battled riot police and hurled debris at Vice President George Bush's
motocade during ceremonies saluting German-American friendship.
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1985: The New York Yankees announced that
the team's bat boys were to wear protective helmets during all games. Bat boy Butch
Wynegar had been hit by a line-drive foul ball while in the on-deck circle.
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1986: In a victory for President Reagan,
the U.S. House of Representatives voted 221-to-209 to approve his request for $100 million
in military and humanitarian aid to the Nicaraguan contras.
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1987: Pope John Paul the Second received
Austrian President Kurt Waldheim at the Vatican, a meeting fraught with controversy
because of allegations that Waldheim had hidden a Nazi past.
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1988: American-born Mildred Gillars, better
known during World War Two as "Axis Sally" for her Nazi propaganda broadcasts,
died in Columbus, Ohio, at age 87. (Gillars had served 12 years in prison for treason.)
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1988: Roger Rabbit Cartoon Character debuts
in the Walt Disney movie 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' which also featured a multitude of
cartoon characters circa 1948. Even the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote were there though
they didn't debut until 1949.
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1988: The hottest temperature ever recorded
in Cleveland occurs (104 degrees).
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1989: A judge in Cincinnati temporarily
blocked a hearing by baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti into allegations that
Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose had gambled on baseball games.
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1990: African National Congress leader
Nelson Mandela met with President Bush at the White House.
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1990: The U.S. Supreme Court, in its first
"right-to-die" decision, ruled that family members can be barred from ending the
lives of persistently comatose relatives who have not made their wishes known
conclusively.
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1990: NBC decided to air episodes of
"Quantum Leep" for 5 straight days.
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1991: Following months of unsuccessful
talks among Yugoslavia's six republics about the future of the federation, the western
republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence.
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1992: Both houses of Congress rushed to
pass a back-to-work order ending a national rail strike. President Bush signed it in the
early hours of June 26.
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1992: The space shuttle
"Columbia," carrying seven astronauts, blasted off on a two-week mission.
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1993: The trustees of the Chicago Symphony
okayed the renovation and expansion of Orchestra Hall. The plan is to demolish a building
next-door to make room for a new wing. The stage will be expanded to accommodate larger
performances.
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1993: Vice President Al Gore broke the tie
vote, giving President Clinton a victory for his massive budget-cutting package with tax
increases on the wealthy and cuts in Medicare.
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1993: Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada's
19th prime minister, the first woman to hold the post.
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1993: Vice President Gore cast the
tie-breaking vote as the Senate approved a record deficit-reduction plan.
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1993: "Sleepless In Seattle"
starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan opened in theaters.
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1993: David Letterman taped his last
"Late Night With David Letterman" variety talk show for NBC-TV before moving to
CBS-TV August 30
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1994: 111 degrees F (43.9 degrees C) at El
Paso Texas.
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1994: Cleveland Indians 18 game home win
streak ends with a loss to Yanks 11-6.
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1994: Japanese Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata,
faced with certain defeat in a no-confidence vote, announced his intention to resign after
just two months in office.
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1995: Haiti held its first free election in
five years.
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1995: Warren E. Burger, the 15th chief
justice of the United States, died in Washington of congestive heart failure at age 87.
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1995: In an attempt to provide a more
humanized view of their client, attorneys for Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy
McVeigh released photos and videotape showing McVeigh smiling and relaxed.
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1996: A truck bomb killed 19 Americans and
injured hundreds at a US military housing complex in Saudi Arabia.
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1997: An unmanned cargo ship crashed into
Russia's "Mir" space station, knocking out half of the station's power and
rupturing a pressurized laboratory.
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1997: The Supreme Court struck down the
Religious Freedom Restoration Act, designed to limit government's ability to regulate
religious practices.
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1997: Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau
died in Paris at age 87.
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1998: The Supreme Court rejected a 1997
line-item veto law as unconstitutional, and ruled that HIV-infected people are protected
by the Americans With Disabilities Act.
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1998: President Clinton began a nine-day
trip to China in the city of Xi'an.
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1999: During a news conference, President
Clinton said the people of Serbia had to "get out of denial" about the
atrocities blamed on Slobodan Milosevic and decide if he was fit to remain president of
Yugoslavia.
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1999: The San Antonio Spurs won their first
NBA title as they defeated the New York Knicks, 78-77, in game five of their championship
series.
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2000: Live-fire training resumed on the Vieques, Puerto Rico, range in the largest naval exercises since a fatal accident prompted a yearlong occupation by protesters.
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2000: Philip Morris announced it was buying Nabisco for $14.9 billion.
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2000: South Korea marked the 50th anniversary of the start of the Korean Conflict.
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2000: Juli Inkster became the first player in 16 years to successfully defend the LPGA Championship.
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