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| 451 | Romano-Frankish Army defeats Attila and the Huns at the Catalaunian Plains |
| 1397 | Union of Kalmar unites Denmark, Sweden, and Norway |
| 1402 | Battle of Angora: Mongols defeat Ottomans |
| 1567 | Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique |
| 1756 | Black Hole of Calcutta: Most of the 146 British prisoners die |
| 1779 | American Reovlution: Battle of Stone Ferry |
| 1782 | Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States |
| 1791 | Varennes: King Louis XVI caught trying to escape Revolutionary France |
| 1813 | Fifteen U.S. gunboats engage three British ships at Hampton Roads, VA |
| 1815 | Steam battery Fulton I tested at New York, and accepted by the USN |
| 1837 | Victoria acends the British throne |
| 1841 | Texas Pres. Lamar sends 321 men on ill-fated attack on Santa Fe |
| 1864 | Battle of Kinston, NC |
| 1864 | Battle of Abingdon, VA |
| 1867 | US buys Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million |
| 1871 | Ku Klux Klaners put on trial in federal court in Oxford Miss |
| 1913 | First naval aviation fatality: Ens W. D. Billingsley killed at Annapolis |
| 1942 | Japanese submarine I-26 shells Port Estevan, near Vancouver. |
| 1943 | Japanese attack Australian 17th Bde on Mubo-Lababia Ridge, NE New Guinea |
| 1943 | Two days of race riots begin in Detroit, 30 die |
| 1943 | Germans round up Jews in Amsterdam |
| 1944 | Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency |
| 1963 | Washington-Moscow "hot line" estbalished |
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| 1498 | Emperor Maximillian orders Jews are expelled from Nurenberg |
| 1814 | Belgium annexed to the Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| 1814 | Vitoria: Wellington's Victory -- the decisive battle of the Peninsular War |
| 1898 | US ships exchange fire with Spanish batteries at Santiago, Cuba |
| 1915 | Anti-British revolt in South-Africa ends with arrest of Gen De Law |
| 1916 | Mexican troops defefat US troops during Pershing's Punative Expedition |
| 1919 | Scapa Flow: German High Seas Fleet scuttles over 400,000 tons of warships |
| 1942 | Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa |
| 1943 | Marine 4th Raider Bn lands at Segi Point, New Georgia |
| 1943 | 112th Cav RCT (dsmtd) lands on Woodlark Island, off eastern New Guinea |
| 1948 | Berlin Airlift begins |
| 1962 | USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m |
| 1963 | Giovanni Battista Montini elected Pope, as Paul VI |
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| 1487 | Sarzana surrenders to Lorenzo the Magnificent's Florentines |
| 1559 | Jewish quarter of Prague burned & looted |
| 1611 | Henry Hudson set adrift by mutineers in the bay that bears his name |
| 1807 | HMS Leopard makes unprovoked attack on USS Chesapeake |
| 1808 | First Air Combat (Balloon): M. de Grandpre downs M. le Pique over Paris, |
| 1815 | Napoleon I abdicates for the second time, after Waterloo |
| 1864 | Wilson's Raid: Battle of Ream's Station, VA |
| 1884 | Cdr W S Schley rescues Lt A.W. Greely expedition from Ellesmere I. |
| 1898 | US ships exchange fire with Spanish batteries at Santiago, Cuba |
| 1898 | US ships bombard Aguadores, Cuba |
| 1898 | US blockaders skirmish with Spanish ships off San Juan, P.R. |
| 1898 | U.S. V Corps commences landing at Siboney and Daiquiri, Cuba |
| 1906 | Haakon VII crownd king of Norway |
| 1911 | King George V of England crowned |
| 1915 | Austro-German forces capture Lemberg from the Russians |
| 1918 | A troop train rams a circus train at Ivanhoe, Ill, 68 die |
| 1938 | Joe Louis defeats Max Schmeling in two minutes |
| 1940 | France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany at Compiegne |
| 1941 | Operation Barbarossa Begins: Axis invade Russia |
| 1942 | V-Mail instituted |
| 1944 | British and Indians relieve Imphal, ending 10 week siege. |
| 1944 | FDR signs the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, "the GI Bill of Rights" |
| 1945 | Okinawa: 110,000 Japanese troops, 100,000 civilians, 17,520 US troops died |
| 1955 | US aircraft on patrol shot down over the Bering Sea by Soviet aircraft |
| 1992 | Yekaterinburg: Remains of Tsar Nicholas II & his wife identified |
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