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0862: Death of St. Swithin
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0907: Bavarians defeated by the Hungarians
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0971: St. Swithin's body moved to a basilica
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1097: Capture of Jerusalem (1st Crusade) 10,000
massacred
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1100: Election of Godfrey of Bologne as King of
Jerusalem
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1187: The castle of Tiberias surrenders to Saladin
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1346: English army sails for France
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1394: Charles VI, King of France, expels the Jews
from France
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1436: Sigsimund recognized as King of Bohemia;
agreement with the Hussites is confirmed
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1450: Cade's Rebellion accepts pardons and leaves
London
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1517: Sultan Selim enters Cairo
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1539: Death of St Anthony Zaccaria
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1543: Death of Bevill Grenville
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1580: Proclamation to restrict the growth of London
forbids new building
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1585: Maria Reich, Trauben Wirth, Waldburg
Lachenmayer, and Anna Treher, of Waldsee, Germany, burned as witches
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1632: Knighting of Anthony Van Dyck, artist
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1641: Courts of Star Chamber & High Commission
are abolished in Britain
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1811: Venezuela became the first South American
country to declare independence from Spain.
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1830: The French occupied the North African city of
Algiers.
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1865: William Booth founded the Salvation Army in
London
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1870: Georgia became the last of the Confederate
states to be readmitted to the Union.
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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."
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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.
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1916: Boeing Company, originally known as Pacific
Aero Products, was founded in Seattle by William Boeing.
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1918: The Second Battle of the Marne began during
World War One.
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1945: Italy declared war on its former Axis
partner, Japan.
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1946: The bikini made its debut during a fashion
show at the Molitor Pool in Paris. Model Micheline Bernardini wore
the daringly skimpy two-piece outfit, which was created by Louis
Reard
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1948: President Truman was nominated for another
term of office by the Democratic national convention in
Philadelphia.
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1964: Senator Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona was
nominated for president by the Republican national convention,
meeting in San Francisco.
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1971: President Nixon announced he would visit the
People's Republic of China to seek a "normalization of
relations."
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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.
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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.)
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1979: President Carter delivered his
"malaise" speech in which he lamented what he called a
"crisis of confidence" in America.
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1987: Former National Security Adviser John
Poindexter testifed at the Iran-Contra hearings that he had never
told President Reagan about using Iranian arms sales money for the
Contras in order to protect the president from possible political
embarrassment.
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1987: Pat Cash of Australia defeated Ivan Lendl in
straight sets to win the Wimbledon men's single final.
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1988: Attorney General Edwin Meese the Third
announced he would resign, saying he had been completely vindicated
by an independent prosecutor's 14-month probe into his official
conduct.
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1989: Former National Security Council aide Oliver
North received $150,000 fine and a suspended prison term as a judge
sentenced him for his Iran-Contra convictions. His convictions were
later overturned.
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1990: NATO leaders opened a two-day meeting in
London to revise the alliance's strategy in light of easing
East-West tensions in Europe and the unraveling of the Warsaw Pact.
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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.
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1991: A worldwide financial scandal erupted as
regulators in eight countries shut down the Bank of Credit and
Commerce International, charging it with fraud, drug
money-laundering and illegal infiltration into the U.S. banking
system.
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1992: leader's of the world's seven richest nations
gathered in Munich, Germany, for their 18th annual economic summit.
President Bush, en route to the summit, told cheering Poles in
Warsaw, "America shares Poland's dream."
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1992: Andre Agassi won his first Grand Slam title,
defeating Goran Ivanisevic at Wimbledon.
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1992: Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton claimed the
Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in New
York.
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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.
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1993: A United Nations team left Iraq after trying
for more than a month to persuade the Baghdad government to allow
surveillance cameras at two former missile test sites. President
Clinton left Washington for a Group of Seven summit in Japan.
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1994: In an attempt to halt a surge of Haitian
refugees, the Clinton administration announced that it was refusing
entry to new Haitian boat people.
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1994: President Clinton set out on a four-nation
European trip that included a Group of Seven summit in Naples,
Italy.
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1995: More than 100 Grateful Dead fans were injured
when a deck on which they were dancing collapsed near Wentzville,
Missouri.
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1996: Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole
picked New York congresswoman Susan Molinari to deliver the keynote
address at the upcoming GOP convention.
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1996: MSNBC, a 24-hour all-news network, made its
debut on cable and the Internet.
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1996: The government reported the nation's
unemployment rate fell to a six-year low in June
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1996: Nervous investors, fearing higher interest
rates, gave the stock market its worst beating in four months,
sending the Dow industrials down 114 points.
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1997: NASA scientists brainstormed to fix problems
that left Mars Pathfinder's robot rover stuck aboard the lander.
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1997: Cambodia's Second Prime Minister Hun Sen
launched a bloody coup that toppled First Prime Minister Norodom
Ranariddh.
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1997: Sixteen-year-old Martina Hingis became the
youngest Wimbledom singles champion this century as she beat Jana
Novotna, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the women's finals. (Charlotte "Lottie"
Dod won in 1887 at age 15.)
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1998: Pete Sampras won Wimbledon for the fifth time
in six years with a 6-7 (2-7), 7-6 (11-9), 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 triumph
over Goran Ivanisevic.
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1998: British security forces in Northern Ireland
blocked a group of Protestants from parading through the main
Catholic neighborhood of Portadown.
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1999: President Clinton began a four-day
cross-country tour to promote a plan for drawing jobs and investment
to areas that had not shared in the prosperity of the 1990s.
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2000: At the United Nations, President Clinton signed an international agreement to ban the forcible recruitment of youths as soldiers in armed conflict, and a companion accord to protect children from being forced into slavery, prostitution and pornography.
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2000: The UN Security Council imposed a diamond ban on Sierra Leone's rebels in a bid to strangle their ability to finance a civil war.
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