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| 1215 | King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England |
| 1389 | Turks defeat Serbs at Battle of Kosovo (Old Style -- June 28, NS) |
| 1520 | Pope Leo X condemns Martin Luther as a heretic |
| 1567 | Jews are expelled from Genoa, Italy |
| 1734 | Charles of Parma invests Gaeta (city falls to August 6) |
| 1743 | Battle of Dettingen, English under George II crush the French |
| 1775 | George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army |
| 1779 | General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point |
| 1785 | First fatal aeronautical accident: two French balloonists die |
| 1802 | Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, a prisoner of the French |
| 1815 | The Duchess of Richmond gives a ball in Brussels |
| 1861 | Joe Johnston evacuates Harpers Ferry |
| 1862 | Gen JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan" |
| 1864 | Robert E Lee's home, Arlington, becomes a miltary cemetery |
| 1864 | Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line |
| 1866 | Prussia declares war on Austria |
| 1877 | Henry O Flipper becomes the first black graduate of West Point |
| 1898 | Marines land at Caimanera, Cuba |
| 1904 | Excursion steamer General Slocum burns in the East River, 1,031 die |
| 1907 | Second Hague Peace Conference; 44 nations meet |
| 1931 | Poland & USSR sign friendship treaty |
| 1934 | Hitler meets Mussolini for the first time, Rome |
| 1940 | Soviet Army occupies Lithuania |
| 1940 | Italians Air Force bombs Luc-en-Province |
| 1940 | Bread & flour rationed in German-occupied Holland |
| 1943 | German raider Michel sinks a 7700-ton merchant ship west of Australia. |
| 1944 | Marines land on Saipan, in the Marianas |
| 1955 | First nationwide civil defense drill |
| 1964 | Last French troops leave Algeria |
| 1978 | Soyuz 29 carries two cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days |
| 1994 | Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations |
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| 1567 | Mary Queen of Scots imprisoned in Lochleven Castle |
| 1654 | Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates |
| 1755 | British capture Fort Beausojour, Nova Scotia, expel Acadians |
| 1815 | Waterloo Campaign: French win Battles of Quatre Bras and Ligny |
| 1832 | Blakchawk War: Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Ill |
| 1858 | Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" |
| 1861 | Lincoln witnessed balloon ascent over Washington by Thaddeus Lowe |
| 1861 | Battle of Secessionville/James Island, SC |
| 1864 | Siege of Petersburg & Richmond begins |
| 1864 | Battle of Lynchburg VA |
| 1876 | The Rosebud: Crazy Horse defeats Gen. George Crook |
| 1898 | US ships exchange fire with Spanish batteries at Santiago, Cuba |
| 1898 | US ships exchange fire with Spanish batteries at Havana, Cuba |
| 1923 | Sun Yat Sen founds the Whampoa Military Academy |
| 1940 | USSR occupies Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia |
| 1942 | Japanese sub-borne airplane reconnoiters Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. |
| 1943 | Japanese lose 100 a/c over Guadalcanal, but only damage three ships |
| 1952 | Soviet Fighters shoot down Swedish Catalina reconnaissance airplane |
| 1953 | Soviet tanks crush workers's protest in Berlin |
| 1954 | Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam |
| 1954 | Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months |
| 1955 | Pope Pius XII excommunicates Argentine Pres Juan Peron |
| 1957 | French offensive in Algeria |
| 1989 | State Funeral of Imre Nagy, executed leader of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution |
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| 0 | Feast of the Blessed Paolo Burali d'Arezzo |
| 1053 | Civitate: Normans defeat Papal-Lombard froce, secure power in Italy |
| 1291 | Acre retaken by the Moslems after 200 years of Crusader control |
| 1397 | Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden & Norway |
| 1744 | Battle of Velletri I: Neapolitans under Charles IV raid Austrian lines |
| 1745 | American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I, from French |
| 1775 | Battle of Bunker Hill |
| 1815 | Stephen Decatur captures Algerian frigate Mashouda |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Vienna, Va |
| 1861 | Battle of Boonville, MI |
| 1863 | Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA: USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta |
| 1863 | Battle of Aldie |
| 1870 | USS Mohican takes and destroys the Mexican pirate ship Forward |
| 1876 | Battle of the Rosebud: Crazy Horse fights Gen Grook's column to a draw |
| 1898 | The Navy Hospital Corps is established |
| 1916 | Pershing leads Punative Expedition against Mexico |
| 1940 | France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II |
| 1944 | U.S. Navy carrier aircraft attack Iwo Jima and the Bonin Islands. |
| 1944 | Iceland declares independence from Denmark |
| 1945 | Final Japanese defensive line on Okinawa breached |
| 1965 | First offensive bombing raid by B-52s, 50 km north of Saigon, Vietnam |
| 1967 | China becomes world's fourth thermonuclear power |
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