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1854 – English/French assault on Petropavlovsk Kamchatka
1914 – General von Moltke ceases German advance in France
1919 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to …

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1925 – Dirigible “Shenandoah” crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die
1934 – Tunisia began its move for independence
1944 – Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France
1953 – French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial poli…

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1908 – Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1917 – Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by admiral Tirpitz)
1956 – Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
1960 – William Walton’s 2nd Symphony, premie…

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1859 – A solar superstorm affects electrical telegraph service.
1897 – The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
1936 – Middleweight Staff Roth KOs Heinz Lazek
1940 – Gen George Mar…

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1864 – Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Jonesboro Georgia, 1900 casualties
1914 – 24.8 cm rainfall at Bloomingdale, Michigan (state record)
1923 – Mussolini’s troops occupy Korfu
1940 – 56 U-boats sunk this month (268,000 ton)
1961 – Amste…

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1937 – Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1960 – Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
1976 – Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show
1992 – 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonar…

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1708 – Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French and Indians
1929 – German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
1943 – Denmark scuttles their warships so as not to be taken by Germany
1981 – Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone …

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1632 – Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Drenthe
1911 – 45.7 cm rainfall at St George, Georgia (state record)
1941 – Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d’Estienne d’Orves
1968 – Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chic…

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1626 – Battle at Lutter: Catholic League beats Danish king Christian IV
1895 – 15th US Mens Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (63 62 64)
1965 – Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley
1967 – Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Amarill…

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1303 – Ala ud din Khilji captures Chittorgarh.
1648 – People’s uprising against Anna of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin
1914 – -9/10] Russian army attacks Austrian army in Galicia
1939 – Kroatia gets autonomous status
1961 – Official Int…

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1499 – Battle at Sapienza: Turkish fleet beats Venetians
1718 – Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found
1864 – Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream’s Station
1914 – German troops march into France pushes Fre…

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1572 – King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
1847 – Charlotte Bronte finishes manuscript of “Jane Eyre”
1870 – The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
1876 – Riot abolishes…

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1799 – Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
1942 – British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo
1953 – USSR performs nuclear test
1958 – China PR resumes fire on Quemoi and Matsoe
1961 – Belgi…

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1864 – Geneva Convention signed by 12 nations
1959 – Cin Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs
1962 – Failed assassination on president De Gaulle
1969 – Gloria O Smith, (NY), crowned 2nd Miss Black America
1982 – Gen Ariel Sharon …

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1897 – Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division
1953 – Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco deposed
1959 – Hawaii becomes 50th US state
1967 – Mikis Theodorakis arrested in Greece
1983 – “La Cage aux Foll…

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1534 – Turkish admiral Chaireddin”Barbarossa” occupies Tunis
1908 – Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo
1914 – Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s
1975 – Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landin…

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1099 – Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon
1954 – Ralph J Bunche named undersecretary of UN
1960 – Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
1980 – Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riy…

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1872 – 1st mail-order catalog issued by A M Ward
1931 – Lou Gehrig hitless in Detroit, his 1,000th consecutively played game
1936 – 106.5anddeg;F-Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa
1940 – 71 German aircrafts shot down above England
1963 -…

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1862 – Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky
1866 – Bathe and Prussia signs peace treaty
1903 – Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U and begins Pulitzer Prizes
1973 – Willie Mays hits 660th and last HR (off Don …

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1905 – Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa
1941 – HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
1943 – 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian main…