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| 622 | The Hadj: Mohammed flees Mecca for Medina - Islamic Calendar begins |
| 1054 | The Great Schism between Western and Eastern Christianity |
| 1099 | Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue & set it afire |
| 1212 | Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem domination of Spain |
| 1429 | Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans |
| 1683 | Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa attack Vienna |
| 1857 | Sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Millsville/Wentzville, Mo |
| 1862 | David G. Farragut is named the first Rear Admiral in the USN |
| 1894 | Many Negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners |
| 1912 | RAdm Bradley Fiske receives a patent for the airborne torpedo. |
| 1912 | Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patented by B.A. Fiske |
| 1920 | Gen Amos Fries appointed First US Chief of Chemical Warfare |
| 1940 | Hitler orders preparations for "Operation Sea Lion"; |
| 1944 | Australian surface warships shell Japanese near Aitape, New Guinea. |
| 1945 | Trinity: the first Atomic Bomb is tested in New Mexico. |
| 1946 | US sentences 46 SS-men to death for Malmedy |
| 1951 | King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates under pressure about collaboration |
| 1957 | Marine Maj John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08) |
| 1962 | NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m |
| 1969 | Apollo 11 leaves for the Moon |
| 1985 | F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1152 kph (716 mph) |
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| 663 | Constans II leaves Rome, the last Roman Emperor to visit |
| 1245 | Pope excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Frederik II, for the third time |
| 1453 | Castillon, ast battle of the 100 Years' War: French defeat the English |
| 1549 | Jews are expelled from Ghent, Belgium |
| 1762 | Catherine the Great becomes ruler of Russia, by murdering Peter III |
| 1812 | USS Constitution escapes a British sqn after 3 day chase off New Jersey |
| 1815 | Napoleon surrenders to the British at Rochefort |
| 1858 | U.S. Sloop-of-War Niagara assists laying of the first Atlantic cable. |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Scarrytown, WVva |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Martinsburg, Mo |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Fulton, Mo |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Bunker Hill, Va |
| 1862 | US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers |
| 1862 | Skirmish at Columbia, TN |
| 1862 | Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River, MS |
| 1862 | John Hunt Morgan raids Cynthiana, KY |
| 1863 | Honey Springs: largest Civil War battle in the Indian Territory |
| 1864 | Jefferson Davis replaces Gen Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood in Georgia |
| 1898 | Spanish American War: Spanish surrender Santiago to the US |
| 1903 | Joint Army and Navy Board formed. |
| 1917 | British Royals change their name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor |
| 1927 | USMC pilots conduct first combat dive bombing, Ocotal, Nicaraguan. |
| 1936 | Military coup in Spain, will lead to Civil War |
| 1942 | MacArthur issues orders to occupy Buna, northeastern Papua. |
| 1942 | Amphib Force, SoPac Area, is established under Richmond Kelly Turner |
| 1943 | U.S. destroyers shell Kiska. |
| 1943 | RAF bombs German rocket research base at Pennemunde, on the Baltic |
| 1944 | Two ammunition ships at Port Chicago, California, explode, 322 die |
| 1944 | Japanese Navy Minister Shimada, resigns, bringing down Tojo government. |
| 1944 | Heavy fighting in the Aitape area, New Guinea. |
| 1945 | Truman, Stalin, and Attlee begin the Potsdam Conference |
| 1945 | Third Fleet undertakes surface and air attacks on targets near Tokyo. |
| 1962 | Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft) |
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| 390 | -BC- Battle of the Allia: Romans suffer devastating defeat by the Gauls |
| 64 | Great Fire of Rome begins, at which Nero didn't fiddle |
| 1536 | Henry VIII declares the Pope's authority void in England |
| 1716 | Jews are expelled from Brussels, Belgium |
| 1775 | Congress authorizes each colony to provide armed ships of war |
| 1779 | Commo Abraham Whipple's squadron takes 11 British prizes |
| 1806 | Besieged since February 12, Gaeta surenders to the French |
| 1812 | Treaty of Orebro: Great Britain, Russia, & Sweden ally against Napoleon |
| 1813 | US Frigate President captures 4 British ships. |
| 1814 | British capture Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin |
| 1861 | Bull Run Campaign: Combat at Blackburn's Ford, Va |
| 1863 | Gallant attempt of the 54th Massachusetts to storm Fort Wagner, SC |
| 1863 | Cavalry skirmish near Columbus, Ga |
| 1898 | US and Spanish light forces engage in naval skirmish off Manzanillo |
| 1901 | Anglo-Boer War: First drive in Cape Colony northwards |
| 1907 | French troops attack Casablanca |
| 1914 | Air Service formed within the Signal Corps |
| 1915 | Second Battle of the Isonzo begins (to Aug 3) |
| 1918 | US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive |
| 1920 | Naval aircraft sink ex-German cruiser Frankfurt in target practice. |
| 1925 | Hitler's "Mein Kampf" published |
| 1941 | SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia |
| 1942 | Messerschmitt Me 262, the first jet fighter, takes its first flight |
| 1943 | German u-boat downs K-47, only US airship lost to enemy action in WW II |
| 1944 | US troop capture St Lo, Normandy |
| 1944 | Kuniaki Koiso forms new Japanese government, with the same old policies. |
| 1945 | Australian troops take the Sambodja oil fields in Borneo. |
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