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Significant Events

1189 Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan

1609 English explorer Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay

1830 1st American built locomotive, "Tom Thumb" races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!

1845 Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue

1864 First Geneva Convention, governing rules of warfare, signed by 26 nations

1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

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MOAR HABBENINGS

475 Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.

476 German ruler Flavius Odoacer captures Pavia

476 Orestes, father of Emperor Romulus Augustulus is captured and executed by Odoacer and his followers

489 Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Flavius Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.

1189 Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan

1521 Belgrade captured by troops of Turkish Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent

1542 Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) - Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and afterwards executed.

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1619 Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor

1632 Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Drenthe

1637 WIC-colonel Hans Koin conquers Fort Elmina, West Africa

1655 New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service

1777 American Revolutionary War - Battle of Cooch's Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.

1837 Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufacture Worcestershire Sauce

1840 Nine Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails

1845 Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue

1849 Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, having been under siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence

1859 A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far afield as Japan.

1861 Battle of Fort Hatteras, North Carolina

1862 Battle of Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia

1862 Battle of Groveton, Virginia (Manassas Plains) [->AUG 19] US7000 CS7000

1862 Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C.

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1884 Mickey Welsh strikes-out 1st 9 men he faces

1886 US Men's National Tennis Championship, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears beats R. Livingston Beeckman 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4

1888 8th U.S. Men's National Championship: Henry Slocum beats Howard Taylor (6-4, 6-1, 6-0)

1893 13th U.S. Men's National Championship: Robert Wrenn beats Fred Hovey (6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4)

1898 Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".

1907 United Parcel Service is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.

1907 27th U.S. Men's National Championship: William Larned beats Robert LeRoy (6-2, 6-2, 6-4)

1908 14th US Golf Open: Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass

1910 Nicholas I of Montenegro again proclaims himself king (first assumed power 1860) after his reign interrupted by Turkish rule

1911 45.7 cm rainfall at St George, Georgia (state record)

1913 Queen Wilhelmina opens Peace Palace in The Hague

1914 Third day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): violent German/Russian battles

1914 Battle of Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1,100 killed

1914 British General John French evacuate Amiens

1916 Germany declares war on Romania

1916 Italy declares war against Germany

1917 Ten suffragists arrested as they picket the White House

1918 Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on umpire Tom Connolly

1919 General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa

1921 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris)

1938 Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria

1938 Northwestern University awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy

1938 On Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park, the A's win a doubleheader

1939 Netherland mobilizes

1939 Sammy Fain and Jack Yellen's musical "George White's Scandals" premieres

1939 Journalist Care Hollingworth observes the “large numbers of troops, literally hundreds of tanks, armored cars and field guns” Germany had aligned along the Polish border. Three days later, Hitler invades Poland and WWII begins.

1940 French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support Gen De Gaulle

1941 8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203)

1941 Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d'Estienne d'Orves

1942 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100)

1942 Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2)

1942 Transport #25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany

1943 Denmark declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers

1944 Last German troops in Marseille surrendered & Toulon cleared

1944 US air raid on Ambon Island, Dutch East Indies

1952 German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments

1952 Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister

1957 US Senator James Thurmond (Rep, SC) begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill

1964 Race riot in Philadelphia

1964 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1971 The US dollar is allowed to float against the Japanese yen for the first time.

1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

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1973 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

1973 India & Pakistan sign POW accord

1973 USSR performs underground nuclear test

1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1982 USSR performs underground nuclear test

1984 USSR performs underground nuclear test

2017 North Korea launches missile that flies over Japan, the country's J-Alert warning system warns people to take cover

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1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.