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| 634 | Arabs defeat Byzantines at Agnadain, Palestine |
| 1839 | Amistad "Mutiny": Slaves liberate themselves |
| 1863 | Lincoln orders retaliation if Confederates kill black prisoners-of-war |
| 1864 | Petersburg Campaign: Battle of the Crater |
| 1864 | Battle of Chambersburg, PA |
| 1866 | Race riot in New Orleans |
| 1898 | US ships exchange fire with Spanish batteries at Manila |
| 1900 | Anglo-Boer War: Surrender of Prinsloo to Hunter in Brandwater Basin |
| 1909 | US Army accepts delivery of first military airplane |
| 1913 | Conclusion of Second Balkan War |
| 1916 | German saboteurs blow up a munitions stored at Black Tom Island, NJ |
| 1918 | 1st Marine Aviation Force begins arriving at Brest, France |
| 1941 | Japanese a/c "accidentally" bomb USS Tutuila (PR-4) at Chungking, China |
| 1942 | VAdm Mikawa arrives at Rabaul to assume command of the Eighth Fleet. |
| 1942 | Sub Grunion declared "over due," probably lost to hazards of the sea. |
| 1942 | German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia |
| 1942 | German occupiers set curfew on Jews in the Netherlands |
| 1942 | WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) created |
| 1943 | U.S. DDs shell suspected Japanese positions on Kiska. |
| 1943 | New Georgia: Heavy fighting continues. |
| 1944 | 6th Inf Div lands on the Vogelkop, NW New Guinea, and offshore islands. |
| 1945 | British midget subs sink Japanese cruiser with mines in Singapore. |
| 1966 | US airplanes bomb demilitarized zone in Vietnam |
| 1971 | US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon |
| 1971 | Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter, 162 die |
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| 1498 | Christopher Columbus lands at Trinidad, on his third voyage |
| 1667 | Peace of Breda: Second Anglo-Dutch War ends |
| 1777 | The Marquis de Lafayette becomes a major-general in the Continental Army |
| 1813 | British attack Plattsburgh, NY |
| 1815 | Bey of Tunis agrees to compensate U.S. for seizure of ships |
| 1830 | Charles X of France is forced to abdicate |
| 1865 | East India Squadron established, origins of Asiatic Fleet |
| 1874 | USS Intrepid, first U.S. warship equipped with torpedoes |
| 1898 | US and Spanish troops skirmish outside Manila |
| 1917 | Third battle of Ypres begins |
| 1922 | Unsuccessful general strike in Italy against fascist violence |
| 1925 | Last Allied occupation forces leave the Rhineland |
| 1932 | German Election; Nazis get 37.3% of the vote |
| 1942 | Japanese Buna-bound convoy is forced back to Rabaul by Allied air attack |
| 1942 | Elements, British Far Eastern Fleet return to Colombo from East Africa. |
| 1942 | Carrier Essex launched at Newport News, Va, the first of a class of 26 |
| 1942 | An additional company reinforces the Australians at Deniki. |
| 1943 | Japanese 17th Div begins moving to Rabaul from central China. |
| 1944 | British assist in forming an anti-Japanese Burmese government-in-exile. |
| 1990 | Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence from Yugoslavia |
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| 1097 | Crusaders defeat Sultan Kilidj Arslan's Turks at Dorylaeum near Nicaea |
| 1690 | The Boyne, Ireland: Protestants massacre Catholics (12th N.S.) |
| 1690 | French defeat the Allies at Fleurus (near Waterloo); |
| 1816 | French frigate Medusa wrecked, inspes G‚ricault's "The Raft of the Medusa |
| 1823 | United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Falling Waters/Martinsburg, Md: Union victory |
| 1862 | Day 7 of the 7 Days: Malvern Hill/Harrison's Landing/Crew's Farm, Va. |
| 1862 | Battle of Holly Spring, MS |
| 1862 | US taxes incomes of $600 or more to help finance the Civil War |
| 1863 | Day One of Gettysburg: Lee wins |
| 1864 | Battle of Petersburg (to July 31) |
| 1867 | The Dominion of Canada formed |
| 1870 | James W Smith of SC becomes the first black man to enter West Point |
| 1873 | Henry Flipper of Georgia is the second black man to enter West Point |
| 1898 | US ships exchange fire with Spanish batteries, Havana |
| 1898 | Skirmish at Aguadores, Cuba |
| 1898 | Battles of El Caney and San Juan Hill, outside Santiago, Cuba |
| 1903 | Geronimo is baptized into the Methodist Church |
| 1913 | Second Balkan War: Serbia & Greece declare war on Bulgaria |
| 1916 | Battle of the Somme begins |
| 1942 | German troops capture Sebastopol |
| 1943 | Marine 4th Raider Bn captures Viru Harbor on New Georgia. |
| 1943 | Japanese DD Hokaze damaged by US sub Thresher in the Southwest Pacific. |
| 1944 | Adm Nagumo, Victor of Pearl Harbor, commits suicide on Saipan. |
| 1945 | Australians land at Balikpapan, Borneo, against stiff resistance. |
| 1946 | US drops atom bomb on Bikini Atoll, the 4th atomic explosion |
| 1950 | First US ground troops arrive in Korea |
| 1960 | USSR shoots down US RB-47 exploration plane |
| 1961 | British troops land in Kuwait to prevent an Iraqi invasion |
| 1962 | Belgian "Trust Territories" of Burundi and Rwanda became independent |
| 1969 | Prince Charles invested as the Prince of Wales |
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