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0683: Death of St. Leo II, Pope
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0987: Coronation of Hugh Capet as King of France
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1187: The army of Outremer marches towards Tiberias
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1298: Edward I, King of England, crosses the Tweed
at Coldstream
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1518: A drunken soldier strikes an image of the
Virgin Mary, in La Rue aux Ours, Paris, and the image bleeds. The
soldier was burned for sacrilege
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1608: French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded
the Canadian town of Quebec.
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1616: Death of St. Bernardine Realino
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1642: Death of Marie de'Medici, widow of Henri IV,
King of France
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1775: General George Washington took command of the
Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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1778: Mozart, traveling with his mother in Paris,
wrote to his father and reported that his wife was ill. She was
actually dead. Mozart decided to break the news gently by reporting
illness first.
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1806: Michael Keens exhibits the first cultivated
strawberry.
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1819: 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in
NYC) opens its doors
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1861: Pony Express arrives in SF with overland
letters from New York.
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1863: The three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, ended in a major victory for the North as Confederate
troops retreated.The Union army under command of Gen. George Meade
defeated Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E. Lee
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1890: Idaho became the 43rd state of the Union.
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1928: The first color television transmission was
accomplished by John Logie Baird in London.
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1930: Congress created the US Veterans
Administration.
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1934: The genesis of Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody
on a Theme of Paganini." The composer, who lived on
Switzerland's Lake Lucerne, usually spent his days there speeding
across the lake on his powerboat. The 61-year-old composer had
produced one of his finest works
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1940: Abbott and Costello made their radio debut on
NBC, replacing comedian Fred Allen for the remainder of the summer.
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1944: During World War Two, Soviet forces
recaptured Minsk.
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1956: President Eisenhower authorizes the CIA's
first U-2 flight over Russia (the first is flown the next day).
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1962: Algeria became independent after 132 years of
French rule.
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1971: Singer Jim Morrison of The Doors died in
Paris at age 27.
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1976: Israel launched its daring mission to rescue
about a hundred passengers and Air France crew members being held at
Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers.
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1986: President Reagan re-lit the Statue of
Liberty's torch in New York Harbor after a $66 million restoration
of the statue was completed during the 100th anniversary year of its
dedication. Ships of 14 nations descended on New York harbor to pay
tribute.
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1987: Two men became the first hot-air balloon
travelers to cross the Atlantic. British millionaire Richard Branson
and Swedish-born Per Lindstrand, the balloon's designer, were forced
to jump into the sea as their craft went down near Scotland.
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1988: The USS "Vincennes" shot down an
Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 passengers
and crew, after the crew of the Vincennes misidentified the plane as
an Iranian F-14 fighter.
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1989: The Supreme Court puts restraints on a
woman's right to a abortion by giving the states the right to
restrict abortions.
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1990: "Die Hard 2" starring Bruce Willis
opened in theaters.
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1990: In Moscow, Kremlin hard-liner Yegor K.
Ligachev received an enthusiastic reception at a Communist Party
congress as he criticized reforms by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev,
saying perestroika had been marred by "limitless
radicalism.""
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1991: Former corporate enemies Apple Computer and
IBM publicly joined forces in a broad pact to swap technologies and
develop new machines.
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1991: A Fort Worth, Texas, police officer was
videotaped beating a handcuffed prisoner in his patrol car (the
officer was suspended, but later reinstated after a grand jury
refused to indict him).
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1992: The first U.S. Air Force C-130 from Operation
Provide Promise arrived in the besieged Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.
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1992: The president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel,
was voted out of office as lawmakers from Slovakia blocked his
re-election in parliament.
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1993: Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide and Haiti's military chief, Lieutenant General Raoul Cedras,
separately signed an accord designed to return Aristide to power.
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1993: Steffi Graf of Germany won her third
consecutive Wimbledon title as she defeated Jana Novotna of the
Czech Republic.
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1993: Hall of Fame pitcher Don Drysdale died in
Montreal, Canada, at age 56.
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1994: Pete Sampras defeated Goran Ivanisevic to win
the Wimbledon men's championship, 7-6, 7-6, 6-0.
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1994: Thirty-one people died in three separate
crashes on Texas highways.
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1995: Irish Republican Army sympathizers rioted in
Northern Ireland's two largest cities in outrage over the early
parole of a British soldier convicted of killing a Roman Catholic
woman.
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1996: Russians went to the polls to re-elect Boris
Yeltsin president over his Communist challenger, Gennady Zyuganov,
in a runoff.
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1996: A blaze destroyed a fireworks store in
Scottown, Ohio, filled with Fourth of July shoppers, killing nine
people and injuring eleven.
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1997: his first formal response to charges by Paula
Jones of sexual harassment, President Clinton denied all allegations
in her lawsuit, and asked a judge to dismiss the case.
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1997: Lockheed Martin Corporation, the nation's
biggest defense contractor, announced it was buying Northrop Grumman
Corporation for $7.9 billion. (However, the merger has been stalled
over
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1998: The 12th World AIDS Conference ended in
Geneva.
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1998: President Clinton concluded his Far East tour
in Hong Kong, where he challenged leaders to set the pace for
rescuing Asia from the region's financial crisis.
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1998: Residents in northeastern Florida continued
to evacuate because of wildfires closing in from three directions.
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1999: President Clinton, acting to head off
potential problems with the safety of imported food, said in his
weekly radio address he was ordering inspectors at American ports to
brand all unsafe and rejected food products, "Refused
U.S."
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2000: Harold Nicholas, the younger half of the legendary tap-dancing Nicholas Brothers, died at age 79.
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2000: President Clinton made a congratulatory telephone call to Mexican President-elect Vicente Fox, a day after Fox's election.
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2000: A 1970's steel observation tower that preservationists said had desecrated the battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania was demolished.
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