0303: Death of St. Felix of Thibiuca
0338: Death of St. James of Nisibus
0668: Death of Constans II, Eastern Roman Emperor
0862: Death of St. Swithin
0971: St. Swithin's body moved to a basilica
1015: Death of St. Vladimir
1024: Death of St. Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
1099: The Muslim citizens of Jerusalem surrendered their city to the
armies of the First Crusade. The Crusaders then proceeded, through misguided religious
zeal, to massacre thousands of unarmed men, women and children. "The city was filled
with corpses and blood," wrote one chronicler.
1189: Elanor of Aquitane, Queen of England, released from her husband's
prison
1205: Pope Innocent III says Jews are doomed to perpetual servitude
& subjugation due to the crucifixion of Jesus
1258: Death of Pierre de Grandson
1291: Death of Rudolph I, King of Germany
1381: Execution of John Ball
1394: Charles VI, King of France, expels the Jews from France
1430: Jeanne d'Arc handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the Bishop of
Beauvais
1543: Henry VIII, King of England, marries Catherine Paar
1575: St. Philip Neri organizes the Congregation of the Oratory
1609: Death of Annibale Carricci, painter
1823 In Rome, the church known as St Paul's Outside the Walls was
destroyed by a fire. Its original edifice was erected in AD 324 by the Roman emperor
Constantine.
1870: Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be
readmitted to the Union.
1876: A friend of Brahms read him a newspaper report that a musician in
the orchestra at Bayreuth had died. Brahms' reply, in its entirety: "The first
corpse."
1876: Saint Louis's Washington Bradley pitched baseball's first
no-hitter.
1912: Led by all-round athlete Jim Thorpe, the United States team took
more medals than any other nation at the Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden.
1916: Boeing Company, originally known as Pacific Aero Products, was
founded in Seattle by William Boeing.
1918: The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War One.
1922: The first duck-billed platypus, imported from Australia, was
displayed in the Bronx Zoo.
1945: Italy declared war on its former Axis partner, Japan.
1948: President Truman was nominated for another term of office by the
Democratic national convention in Philadelphia.
1964: Senator Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona was nominated for president
by the Republican national convention, meeting in San Francisco.
1965: Congress passed a law requiring all cigarette packages to carry a
health warning.
1971: President Nixon announced he would visit the People's Republic of
China to seek a "normalization of relations."
1975: Three American astronauts blasted off aboard an
"Apollo" spaceship hours after two Soviet cosmonauts were launched aboard a
"Soyuz" spacecraft for a mission that included a linkup of the two ships in
orbit.
1976: A 36-hour kidnap ordeal began for 26 schoolchildren and their bus
driver as they were abducted near Chowchilla, California, by three gunmen and imprisoned
in an underground cell. (The captives escaped unharmed.)
1979: President Carter delivered his now-famous "malaise"
speech in which he lamented what he called a "crisis of confidence" in America.
1982: George Schultz was confirmed as Secretary of State.
1984: In the face of in-party protests, Democratic nominee-apparent
Walter F. Mondale reinstated Charles T. Manatt as the party's national chairman, after
trying to oust him in favor of President Carter's old confidant, Bert Lance.
1986: Britain and the Soviet Union settled accounts on the $75 million
in bonds issued under Russia's czars and defaulted on after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
1987: Former National Security Adviser John Poindexter testified at the
Iran-Contra hearings that he never told President Reagan about using Iranian arms sales
money for the Contras, in order to protect the president from political embarrassment.
1988: The leadership of the Teamsters Union chose William J. McCarthy
to fill out the remaining term of the late Jackie Presser as president, narrowly rejecting
Secretary-Treasurer Weldon Mathis, Presser's hand-picked successor.
1989: Leaders of the seven major industrial democracies, meeting in
Paris, voiced support for democracy behind the Iron Curtain and condemned repression in
China.
1990: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and visiting West German
Chancellor Helmut Kohl held talks on the issue of a united Germany's membership in NATO.
1990: Tens of thousands of people marched in Moscow to protest the
Communist Party's control of the government, the army and the KGB.
1991: A former POW released a photograph showing three U.S. servicemen,
missing in Southeast Asia since the Vietnam War, holding a sign dated May 25, 1990.
1991: The leaders of the world's wealthiest democracies, the Group of
Seven, opened their 17th annual economic summit in London, plunging into debate over aid
the Soviet Union.
1992: Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton claimed the Democratic
presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York.
1993: In the Tanglewood the show was all-Tchaikovsky. Mariss Jansons
conducted the Boston Symphony in the "Pathetique" Symphony after Andre Watts
performed the First Piano Concerto.
1993: Authorities in Los Angeles announced eight arrests in connection
with an alleged plot by white supremacists to ignite a race war by bombing a black church
and killing prominent black Americans.
1994: Microsoft Corp. reached a settlement with the Justice Department,
promising to end practices it used to corner the market for personal computer software
programs.
1995: A 19-year-old sales clerk was rescued after being buried in the
rubble of a collapsed shopping mall in Seoul, South Korea, for 16 days.
1996: Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole picked New York
congresswoman Susan Molinari to deliver the keynote address at the upcoming GOP
convention.
1996: MSNBC, a 24-hour all-news network, made its debut on cable and
the Internet.
1997: Fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot to death outside his
home in Miami; the man believed to be the gunman, suspected serial killer Andrew Phillip
Cunanan, was found dead eight days later.
1998: The Congressional Budget Office estimated federal surpluses of
$1.55 trillion over the next decade.
1998: Three days of ceremonies to bury Russia's last czar and his
family, who were killed by the Bolsheviks, began in the city of Yekaterinburg.
1999: The government acknowledged for the first time that thousands of
workers were made sick while making nuclear weapons and announced a plan to compensate
many of them.
1999: China declared that it had invented its own neutron bomb.
1999:The Seattle Mariners played their first game in their new home,
Safeco Field, losing to the San Diego Padres, 3-to-2.
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2000: The United Nations launched a successful military operation to help 222 Indian peacekeepers and eleven military observers break out of a rebel stronghold in Sierra Leone.
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2000: Former Rhode Island governor and longtime US senator John O. Pastore died at age 93.
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2000: Lennox Lewis stopped Francois Botha at 2:39 of the second round to retain his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles in London.
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