0526: Election of Felix III as Pope
1073: Death of St. John Gaulberto
1109: Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli
1153: Coronation of Anastasius IV as Pope
1174: King Henry II does penance at Canterbury for Becket's murder
1174: William the Lion made prisoner at Alnwick
1191: The armies of the Third Crusade (1189-92), led by England's King
Richard ('TheLionhearted'), captured the Syrian seaport of Acre.
1221: Pelagius leads the 5th Crusade up the Nile
1290: Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I
1328: Marriage of David II, King of Scotland, to Joanna, sister of
Edward III of England
1346: Landing of the English army at St. Vaast la Hogue, Cotentin,
Normandy
1450: Death of Jack Cade
1536: Death of Desiderius Erasmus
1543: England's King Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th &
last wife), She outlived him.
1627: English troops under Buckingham land on the Isle of Rhe
1645: Death of Michael I, Czar of Russia
1690: Protestant forces led by William of Orange defeated the Roman
Catholic army of James the Second at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1789: Fire sweeps through Paris following 2 days of rioting.
1812: US forces lead by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812).
1843: Mormon church founder Joseph Smith announced that a divine
revelation had been given him sanctioning polygamy among his newly-organized religious
followers.
1862: Congress authorized a new award, the U.S. Medal of Honor, often
called the Congressional Medal of Honor.
1878: Turkey cedes Cyprus to Britain.
1920: The Panama canal, was officially opened by President Woodrow
Wilson. The project began in 1881. The first ship actually sailed through on January 7,
1914.
1922: Hindemith's "Kammermusic for Winds" was premiered in
Cologne. This witty piece, an early composition with traces of jazz here and there, is
still popular with wind ensembles today.
1933: A new U.S. industrial code was established to fix a minimum wage
of 40 cents an hour. This was the first national minimum wage law passed by the U. S.
Congress.
1934: US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned.
1944: The RAF becomes the first air force to use jet aircraft in
operational service.
1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns from the army to begin his
presidential campaign.
1972: George McGovern won the Democratic presidential nomination at the
party's convention in Miami Beach.
1974: John Ehrlichman, a former aide to President Nixon, and three
others were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg's
former psychiatrist.
1976: Hans Werner Henze got a Marxist opera staged in London. It was
called "We Come to the River" and was a revolution manifesto.
1977: President Carter defended Supreme Court decisions limiting
government payments for poor women's abortions, saying, "There are many things in
life that are not fair."
1981: For the first time a woman in the United States was ordered to
pay alimony to her husband.
1982: The last of the distinctive looking Checker taxicabs rolled off
the assembly line in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The company had produced those cabs since 1922.
1984: Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announced
he'd chosen US Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running-mate;
Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket.
1985: Doctors discovered what turned out to be a cancerous growth in
President Reagan's large intestine, prompting surgery the following day.
1986: Protestants paraded through Northern Ireland to observe the
anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, and to protest the Anglo-Irish accord giving
Ireland a role in running the British-ruled province.
1987: For the first time in 20 years, a delegation of Soviet diplomats
arrived in Israel for what was described as a "technical mission" to document
Soviet citizens and make an inventory of Soviet property.
1988: Democratic presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis tapped Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen as his running mate.
1989: President Bush continued his visit to Hungary, where he held
talks with officials and made a speech at Karl Marx University in Budapest.
1989: A farmer in eastern France went on a shooting rampage, killing 14
people before being captured.
1990: Russian republic president Boris N. Yeltsin shocked the 28th
congress of the Soviet Communist Party by announcing he was resigning his party
membership. Saying he wanted to concentrate on his duties as president of the Russian
republic.
1991: A Japanese professor who had translated Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" was found stabbed to death, nine days after the novel's Italian translator was attacked in Milan.
1992: In an emotional farewell speech, Benjamin Hooks, outgoing
executive director of the NAACP, urged the group's convention in Nashville, Tennessee, to
show the world that it remained vital.
1993: 196 people were killed when an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the
Richter scale struck northern Japan.
1993: In Somalia, a mob avenging a deadly United Nations attack on the
compound of Mohamed Farrah Aidid killed an Associated Press photographer and three Reuters
employees.
1994: Germany's highest court ruled the country's combat troops could
be sent on U.N. missions abroad with parliamentary approval.
1994: President Clinton, visiting Germany, went to the eastern sector
of Berlin, the first American president to do so since Harry Truman.
1994: Confirmation hearings began for Supreme Court nominee Stephen G.
Breyer.
1994: The National League won the All-Star Game, defeating the American
League 8-to-7.
1995: President Clinton spelled out school-prayer guidelines, asserting
the First Amendment already guaranteed adequate freedom of religion.
1996: The House voted overwhelmingly to define marriage in federal law
as a legal union of one man and one woman -- no matter what states might say.
1996: Hurricane "Bertha" slapped North Carolina's Cape Fear,
then moved on to batter a string of coastal towns.
1997: In Copenhagen, the last stop of an eight-day European tour,
President Clinton said political divisions in Europe were closing.
1997: In Spain, kidnapped Basque politician Miguel Angel Blanco was
found mortally wounded shortly after a deadline set by his militant Basque captors.
1998: In Ballymoney, Northern Ireland, three young brothers who had
been asleep in their beds burned to death in a sectarian attack.
1998: France beat Brazil, 3-to-0, for its first World Cup soccer
championship.
1999: President Clinton and Republican congressional leaders held their
first face-to-face budget meeting of the year; the talk was described afterward as
positive.
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2000: In Philadelphia, a WPVI TV news helicopter videotaped about a dozen police officers kicking and punching Thomas Jones, a black carjacking suspect. (Jones later pleaded guilty to carjacking and other crimes, and was sentenced to 18 to 36 years in prison; however, the circumstances of the beating are still under investigation.)
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2000: New Hampshire Chief Justice David Brock was impeached by the Legislature, the first such action against an official in the state since 1790. (He was later acquitted in a state Senate trial.)
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