987-Louis IV, crowned king of France
1179-The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
1205-Pope Innocent III fires Adolf I as archbishop of Cologne
1269-King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame
1286-Rabbenu Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in fortress of Ensisheim
1306-The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Robert Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1464-French King Louis XI forms postal service
1502-Emperor Maximilian I & England sign treaty of Antwerp
1572-Garrison under Adrian van Swieten occupy Oudewater
1586-English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island NC
1588-Spanish Armada heavily destroyed in storm at Coruna
1610-Samuel de Champlain and his French army defeat the Mohawk people at the Battle of Sorel in New France, present-day Sorel-Tracy, Quebec
1631-Peace of Cherasco: Charles de Gonzaga-Nevers becomes duke of Mantua
1669-Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as king
1754-Albany Congress held by seven British colonies & Iroquois indians
1770-General Church of New Jerusalem established
Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
1778-Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge
1807-Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
1816-Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1821-Battle at Dragetsani: Turkish army beats Greece
Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
1825-Gioacchino Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims" premieres
1829-Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)
1835-New Orleans gives US government Jackson Square to be used as a mint
1846-1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1
1861-Anaheim Post Office established
Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia
1862-Slavery outlawed in US territories
1863-Battle at Middleburg Virginia (100+ casualties)
1864-CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France
Skirmish at Pine Knob Georgia
1865-Siege of Richmond, VA
Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas
1867-1st Belmont: J Gilpatrick aboard Ruthless wins in 3:05
1868-Maj Gen E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC
1875-Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio
The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
1889- Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip"
1893-Lizzie Bordon acquitted
1910-1st airship in service "Germany"
1917-King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles & surnames, they take the name Windsor
1940-"Brenda Starr", 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago
German 7th Armoured division under command of Rommel occupies Cherbourg
1941-Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani
Famous Birthdays:
1566-James I Stuart, king of Scotland (James VI)/England (1567/1603-25)1606-James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
1608-Thomas Fuller, England, literary (History of the Holy War)
1623-Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer (Pascal)
1633-Philippus van Limborch, remonstrants theologist/vicar
1741-Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/art collector
Famous Weddings:
1843-Philosopher Karl Marx (25) weds Jenny von Westphalen in Germany
1850-Swedish/Norwegian crown prince Charles weds Dutch princess Wilhelmina
1942-Actress Marilyn Monroe (16) marries first husband James Dougherty (21), a policeman
1953-Singer James Brown (20) weds Velma Warren at Trinity CME Church in Toccoa, Georgia
1976-King Charles XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Renate Sommerlath in Stockholm Cathedral, Ist Swedish reigning monarch to marry since 1797
1999-Earl of Wessex Prince Edward (35) weds Sophie Rhys-Jones (34) at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle
2010-Crown Princess Victoria heir apparent of HM Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, weds Daniel Westling at Stockholm Cathedral
Famous Divorces:
2009-"Malcolm in the Middle" actress Jane Kaczmarek (53) divorces actor Bradley Whitford (49) after 16 years of marriage
2010-Backup dancer Dean Sheremet (29) divorces Grammy Award-winning singer LeAnn Rimes (27) after nearly eight years of marriage
Famous Deaths:
1312-Piers Gaveston, earl of Cornwall, beheaded
1545-Abraomas Kulvietis Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
1759-Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier, composer, dies at 31
1762-Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer, dies at 60
1768-Benjamin Tasker, Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
1867- Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro at 34
1939-Grace Abbott, social worker (US Children Bureau), dies at 60
1953-Ethel Rosenberg, executed at Sing Sing, in 5 tries
Julius Rosenberg, NYC, 1st US civilian executed for espionage at 37
1986-Murray P Haydon, artificial heart recipient, dies in Louisville at 59
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