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| 1191 | Crusaders take Acre, after a long siege |
| 1302 | Battle of Courtrai: Flemish burgers defeat French knights |
| 1740 | Jews are expelled from Belarus by Tsarina Anne |
| 1786 | US bribes Morocco to quit attacking American ships |
| 1792 | Prussian Army invades Revolutionary France |
| 1798 | Congress reestablishes the Marine Corps, disbanded in 1784 |
| 1812 | US invades Canada near Detroit |
| 1859 | Peace of Villafranca: Austria cedes northern Italy to Sardinia |
| 1861 | Battle of Rich Mountain, VA: Gen Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender |
| 1862 | Lincoln appoints Henry Halleck general-in-chief |
| 1864 | Jubal's Raid: Battle of Fort Stevens, DC -- Lincoln under fire |
| 1898 | Naval bombardment of Santiago defenses |
| 1900 | Anglo-Boer War: Surrender of Scots Greys at Zilikat's Nek |
| 1915 | Germany cruiser Konigsberg scuttled near Dar-es-Salam, Tangynika |
| 1919 | Navy Pay Corps is renamed the Supply Corps |
| 1934 | FDR is the first sitting president to transit the Panama Canal |
| 1942 | Japanese GHQ acknowledges the results of the Battle of Midway |
| 1943 | USN surface ships break German-Italian tank attack at Gela, Sicily |
| 1943 | U.S. cruisers and destroyers shell Munda. |
| 1955 | USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB, Colo., with 300 cadets |
| 1975 | 8,000 porcelain soldiers are unearthed in the tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi |
| 1977 | Martin Luther King, Jr., posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom |
| 1999 | Cols Bill Gross and Austin Bay survive Guatemalan 6.8 earthquake |
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| 1109 | Crusaders capture Tripoli, Syria |
| 1191 | Richard The Lionheart & the Crusades take Acre |
| 1290 | Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I |
| 1543 | England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr, his sixth and last wife |
| 1573 | Besieged by the Spanish since Dec 11, 1572, Haarlem, Netherlands, falls |
| 1691 | Battle of Aughrim, England, William III defeats James II |
| 1784 | Spanish-Neapolitan-Portuguese-Maltese fleet bombards Algiers (to 21st) |
| 1794 | Siege of Calvi, Corsica: Lord Nelson loses his right eye |
| 1806 | Napoleon establishes the Confederation of the Rhine |
| 1812 | US forces led by Gen Hull invade Canada (War of 1812) |
| 1836 | Charles H. Haswell, commissioned, first U.S. Navy Engineer Officer. |
| 1861 | Combat of Beverly Ford, Va |
| 1861 | Combat at Barboursville/Red House, WVa |
| 1862 | Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor |
| 1906 | Alfred Dreyfus finally cleared of all charges by the French Army |
| 1916 | Arm Cr. North Carolina is the first American ship regularly operating aircraft |
| 1921 | Congress creates the Bureau of Aeronautics |
| 1941 | Luftwaffe bombs Moscow for the first time |
| 1942 | U-Boat lands Four German saboteurs on Long Island, who are soon captured |
| 1942 | New Guinea: Lead elmements Australian Maroubra Force reach Kokoda |
| 1943 | Kolombangara: "Tokyo Express" tanlges with Allied ships, who lose, badly |
| 1944 | Theresienstadt Cocentration Camp disbanded, with 4,000 people gased |
| 1944 | Allied attempt to take Myitkina, Burma, foiled by "friendly" air attacks |
| 1948 | Six RAF de Havilland Vampires become the first jets to fly the Atlantic |
| 1982 | FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail |
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| 1643 | Royalists defeat the Roundheads at Roundway Down |
| 1863 | USS Wyoming defeats Japanese warlord's forces at Shimonoseki Straits |
| 1863 | Battle of Tupelo/Harrisburg, Ms, begins (ends Jul 15) |
| 1863 | Battle of Bayou La Fourche, La |
| 1864 | Jubal Early retreats from Washington, towards the Shenandoah Valley |
| 1864 | Ashville, Georgia, captured by Union cavalry |
| 1878 | Congress of Berlin restructures the Balkans |
| 1919 | Race riots in Longview & Gregg Counties, Texas |
| 1942 | SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov, Poland |
| 1943 | Australian 3rd Div clears the Japanese from the Mubo, New Guinea. |
| 1944 | Fighting continues on Noemfoor. |
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