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0473: Julius Nepos become Emperor of the
West
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0541: Attila the Hun raises the siege of
Orleans, France
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1065: Death of Ferdinand I "the
Great," King of Castile
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1148: The leaders of the 2nd Crusade decide
to attack Damascus
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1209: The Crusade against the Albegensians
sets forth from Lyons
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1314: The forces of Scotland's King Robert
the First defeated the English in the Battle of Bannockburn.
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1358: Effective end of the Jacquerie
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1371: John of Gaunt, England, unhorses the
Sieur de Pussances, France, in a Tourney held at Bordeaux, ending his term as Governor of
Aquitane
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1497: Execution of Thomas Flamank
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1497: The first recorded sighting of North
America by a European took place as explorer John Cabot, on a voyage for England, spotted
land, probably in present-day Canada
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1509: Henry the Eighth was crowned king of
England.
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1519: Death of Lucrezia Borgia
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1520: End of the "Field of the Cloth
of Gold"
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1527: Paracelcus burns the books of Galen
and Avicenna
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1533: Death of the former Queen of France,
Mary
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1535: Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of
Munster; capture and torture of John of Leiden
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1537: Ordination of St. Francis Xavier
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1540: King Henry VIII divorces Anne of
Cleves
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1559: All Catholic services are forbidden
in England
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1571: Miguel Ląpez de Legazpi establishes
Manila
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1596: John Stewart, Master of Orkney,
charged with consulting one Anne Balfour, a witch
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1603: Date picked for the abdication of
King James I of England by the members of the "Watson Plot"
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1624: Virginia Company is dissolved -
Virginia becomes a crown colony
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1633: The Inquisition finally releases
Galileo
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1647: Margaret Brent, a niece of Lord
Baltimore, was ejected from the Maryland Assembly after demanding a place and vote in that
governing body.
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1793: The first republican constitution in
France was adopted.
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1858: Georges Bizet was visiting Rome,
where he was struck by the feeling that anything was available for a price. "There
are no chaste women here," he would write the next day," and most of the men
will do anything that is asked of them for a few sous."
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1908: The 22nd and 24th president of the
United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, New Jersey, at age 71.
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1940: France signed an armistice with Italy
during World War Two.
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1943: Ralph Vaughan Williams's Fifth
Symphony was premiered with the composer himself conducting. The Fifth Symphony was
dedicated to Sibelius.
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1948: Soviet forces blockaded the western
zones of Berlin, setting the stage for the Berlin airlift to support the 2 million people
of the divided German city.
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1968: "Resurrection City," a
shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on Washington DC, was closed
down by authorities.
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1975: 113 people were killed when an
Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at New
York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
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1986: Actress Raquel Welch won a $10.8
million verdict against MGM, which she claimed ruined her career by firing her from the
1980 movie "Cannery Row."
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1986: By a 97-to-3 vote, the U.S. Senate
approved a sweeping tax revision bill calling for lower tax rates and fewer deductions,
credits and benefits.
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1987: Comedian-actor Jackie Gleason died at
his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at age 71.
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1988: Pope John Paul the Second, on a visit
to Austria, condemned Nazism during a stopover at the Mauthausen death camp where 110,000
World War II prisoners died.
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1989: Following the crackdown on China's
pro-democracy movement, Zhao Ziyang was deposed as Communist Party general Secretary, and
was replaced by Jiang Zemin.
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1989: A two-day Rocky Mountain snowstorm
ended leaving 18 inches of snow on the ground at Dickinson Park, Wyoming.
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1990: Health and Human Services Secretary
Louis Sullivan was virtually drowned out by jeering demonstrators as he addressed the
Sixth International AIDS conference, meeting in San Francisco.
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1990: South African black nationalist
Nelson Mandela arrived in Washington.
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1991: On the eve of the 41st anniversary of
the start of the Korean War, the U.S. and North Korea agreed on returning the remains of
missing soldiers; 11 sets of remains were shipped.
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1991: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the
First Amendment did not shield news organizations from being sued when they publish the
names of sources who had been promised confidentiality.
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1992: The Supreme Court, in a five-to-four
decision, strengthened its 30-year ban on officially sponsored worship in public schools,
prohibiting prayer as a part of graduation ceremonies.
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1993: Eight Muslim fundamentalists were
arrested in New York, accused of plotting a day of bombings of the United Nations, a
federal building and the Holland and Lincoln tunnels.
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1993: Yale University computer expert David
Gelernter was injured in his office by a bomb sent by Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski.
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1994: President Clinton struck out at his
conservative critics and the media, bitterly complaining in a speech in St. Louis that
unfair and negative reports about him were feeding a cynical mindset in America.
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1995: In his weekly radio address,
President Clinton blamed the failed nomination of Dr. Henry Foster to be surgeon general
on right-wing extremists who will "stop at nothing" to outlaw abortion.
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1995: The New Jersey Devils won the Stanley
Cup as they completed a sweep of the Detroit Red Wings.
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1996: A jury ordered the city of
Philadelphia to pay $1.5 million in damages for the bombing of MOVE headquarters in 1985
that killed eleven people.
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1997: In Freehold, New Jersey, 18-year-old
Melissa Drexler, who gave birth during her prom, was charged with murder in the death of
her baby.
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1997: The Air Force released a report on
the so-called "Roswell Incident," suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported
seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.
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1997: Actor Brian Keith was found dead in
his Malibu, California, home; he was 75.
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1998: President Clinton left on a nine-day
visit to China amid a swirl of controversy over his policy toward the Beijing government.
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1998: AT&T Corporation struck a deal to
buy cable TV giant Tele-Communications for $31.7 billion.
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1999: Union organizers claimed victory
after workers at six Fieldcrest Cannon mills in North Carolina voted to be represented by
the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees.
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1999: Testimony wound to an end after 76
days in the landmark Microsoft antitrust trial.
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2000: Revising an earlier plan, President Clinton proposed using $58 billion from the growing budget surplus to help senior citizens pay for prescription drugs in 2002.
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2000: After months of political violence, Zimbabweans crowded polling booths in the country's most competitive election since independence.
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