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| 1489 | Vasco da Gama reaches Calicut, India |
| 1825 | Charles X becomes King of France |
| 1859 | French defeat the Austrians in a skirmish at Montebello |
| 1859 | Franco-Sardinian victory over Austria at Montebello |
| 1902 | US military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends |
| 1912 | Hampton Roads: SMS Moltke begins visit to the US, |
| 1932 | Engelbert Dollfuss becomes chancellor of Austria |
| 1940 | German tanks reach the Channel |
| 1941 | Max Schmeling and thousands of other German paratroopers invade Crete |
| 1942 | Japanese submarine-borne aircraft reconnoiter Durban, South Africa. |
| 1944 | US Army Engineers blow up the remnants of the Nofi residence, Itri |
| 1970 | NYC: 100,000 march to support US policies in Vietnam |
| 1971 | Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of US soldiers in SE Asia |
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| 1420 | Treaty of Troyes: French Charles VI gives France to England's Henry V |
| 1420 | Henry V of England captures Paris |
| 1421 | Murad II becomes Sultan of the Turks (1421-1451) |
| 1856 | Lawrence, Kansas captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces |
| 1861 | Richmond, Va, is designated the Confederate Capital |
| 1863 | Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins |
| 1864 | US Maj Gen David Hunter takes command of Dept of West Virginia |
| 1871 | French troops attack the Commune of Paris; 17,000 die by July 28 |
| 1879 | War of the Pacific: Naval Battle of Iquiqui |
| 1881 | Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross |
| 1917 | Leo Pinckney becomes the first American drafted during WW I |
| 1942 | Philippines: Japanese troops occupy Samar and Leyte |
| 1943 | China: Japanese open a new offensive across the Yangtze River |
| 1944 | Pearl Harbor. LST loaded with ammo blows up, sinking 6 LSTs; c. 400 die |
| 1944 | Wadke, New Guinea: Japanese crushed, c. 750 dead to 43 US |
| 1956 | US explodes the first airborne hydrogen bomb, Bikini Atoll |
| 1964 | US begins intelligence flights above Laos |
| 1968 | US submarine Scorpion sinks off Azores, 99 die |
| 1991 | Marxist dictator of Ethiopia Mengistu Haile Mariam, resigns |
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| 1176 | Attempted assassination of Saladin at Aleppo |
| 1200 | Peace of Goulet |
| 1370 | Jews are expelled from Brussels, Belgium |
| 1526 | Cognac:The Pope, France, & England for an anti-Spanish alliance |
| 1856 | Slavocrat Rep. Preston Brooks canes Sen. Charles Sumner, in the Senate |
| 1863 | War Dept establishes Bureau of Colored Troops |
| 1864 | Battle of North Anna River/Totopotamy River/Haw's Shop/Hanovertown, VA |
| 1915 | Gretna, Scotland: Local train collides with troop train, 226 die |
| 1941 | British troops take Baghdad, deposing pro-Nazi Iraqi regime |
| 1942 | Mexico declares war on Nazi Germany and Japan |
| 1943 | Stalin disbands the Comintern |
| 1947 | "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece |
| 1959 | Benjamin O Davis Jr. (USMA '36) becomes the first black major general |
| 1962 | Robert A Rushworth, USAF major, takes X-15 to 30,600m |
| 1967 | Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel |
| 1969 | Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi (15km) above lunar surface |
| 1970 | Arab terrorist attacks school bus in Israel; 9 children, 3 adults die |
| 1985 | US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR |
| 1992 | India launches its Agni rocket |
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