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• 1867 - Canada Day: Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia united in Confederation.
• 1904 - The first Olympic Games in North America opened in St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1916 - The First day on the Somme, the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army.
• 1991 - The Warsaw Pact was officially dissolved.
• 1997 - The United Kingdom ceded Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.

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• 1644 - The Battle of Marston Moor, one of the decisive encounters of the English Civil War, was fought near York.
• 1839 - A cargo of 53 African slaves mutinied on the slave ship Amistad off the coast of Cuba.
• 1900 - First Zeppelin flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
• 1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.
• 1976 - North and South Vietnam united to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

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• 323 - Constantine the Great defeated Licinius.
• 987 - Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that ruled France till the French Revolution in 1792.
• 1608 - Quebec City was founded by Samuel de Champlain.
• 1863 - Pickett's Charge occurred during the final and bloodiest day of fighting in the Battle of Gettysburg, marking a turning point in the American Civil War.
• 1938 - The LNER "Mallard" reached a speed of 203 km/h (126 mph), a world record for a steam railway locomotive.
• 1964 - President Lyndon Johnson of the United States signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibiting racial segregation in public places.

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• 1054 - Chinese astronomers observed a supernova in the Crab Nebula
• 1187 - Saladin defeated Guy of Lusignan at the Battle of Hattin.
• 1776 - The Continental Congress approved a Declaration of Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1802 - At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opened.
• 1976 - Operation Entebbe: Israeli commandos raided Uganda's Entebbe Airport to free hostages taken by PLO and RAF militants.

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• 1687 - Isaac Newton's volume no. 1 of his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica was published for the first time.
• 1811 - Venezuela declared its independence from Spain.
• 1951 - William Shockley invented the junction transistor.
• 1962 - Algeria became independent from France.
• 1989 - Oliver North was sentenced for his part in the Iran-Contra Affair.

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• 1609 - Bohemia was granted freedom of religion.
• 1785 - The dollar was unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States. This was the first time a nation had adopted a decimal currency system.
• 1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tested his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister.
• 1887 - David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, was forced at gunpoint, at the hands of Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
• 1957 - Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.

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• 1456 - Joan of Arc was acquitted posthumously.
• 1846 - Commodore John Drake Sloat occupied Monterey and Yerba Buena, beginning the United States annexation of California.
• 1898 - The U.S. annexed Hawaii.
• 1937 - The Marco Polo Bridge Incident marked the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
• 1946 - Canonization of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first U.S. saint.

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• 1497 - Vasco da Gama set sail on first direct European voyage to India.
• 1709 - Battle of Poltava: In Ukraine, Peter I of Russia defeated Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava, effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.
• 1889 - The first issue of the Wall Street Journal was published.
• 1947 - Newspapers in Roswell, New Mexico, United States, reported the military's capture of a "flying saucer".
• 1997 - Mayo Clinic researchers warned that the dieting-drug "fen-phen" can cause severe heart and lung damage.

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• 1900 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gave royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia, thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
• 1922 - Johnny Weissmuller swam the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds, breaking a world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
• 1942 - Holocaust: Anne Frank's family went into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
• 2002 - The African Union was established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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• 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Caesar barely avoided a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
• 1913 - Death Valley, California hit 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States (as of 2004).
• 1985 - After a storm of controversy surrounding a change in its cola's formula, Coca-Cola re-introduced the old formula as "Coca-Cola Classic."
• 1998 - Catholic priests' sex abuse scandal: The Diocese of Dallas agreed to pay USD 23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.

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• 1862 - The U.S. Army Medal of Honor was authorized by the U.S. Congress.
• 1904 - Nobel Literature Prize winner Pablo Neruda was born in Parral, Chile.
• 1967 - Four days of race riots began in Newark, New Jersey, United States, during which 27 lives were lost.
• 1975 - S�o Tom� and Pr�ncipe declared independence from Portugal.
• 1993 - A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off the shore of Hokkaido, Japan launched a devastating tsunami, killing 202 on the small island of Okushiri.

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• 100 BC - Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar was born.
• 1772 - HMS Resolution set sail from Plymouth, England, under the command of Captain James Cook.
• 1878 - The major powers redrew the map of the Balkans in the Treaty of Berlin.
• 1971 - Morocco summarily executed 10 top-ranking officers for their role in a failed coup d'�tat.
• 1985 - Live Aid benefit concerts took place in London and Philadelphia.

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• 1789 - French Revolution: Parisians stormed the Bastille.
• 1798 - The Sedition Act became United States law making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
• 1933 - In Germany, all political parties were outlawed except the Nazi Party.
• 1958 - Iraqi revolution: King Faisal II was overthrown by Arab nationalists and Abdul Karim Kassem became the nation's new leader.
• 1965 - The Mariner 4 flew past Mars, collecting the first close-up pictures of another planet

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• 1606 - The painter Rembrandt was born in Leiden, Holland.
• 1799 - French soldiers uncovered the Rosetta Stone in the village of Rashid, in Egypt's Nile Delta.
• 1806 - The Pike expedition set off from St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the Louisiana Territory.
• 1916 - Boeing was incorporated in Seattle, Washington, United States.
• 1974 - Archbishop Makarios, president of Cyprus, was overthrown in a coup d'�tat.

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• 622 - Beginning of the Islamic calendar.
• 1918 - Russian Revolution: Bolsheviks executed Czar Nicholas II of Russia and his family at Ekaterinburg.
• 1945 - Manhattan Project: "Trinity", the first atomic bomb test, was detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States.
• 1979 - Saddam Hussein took over as Iraqi President.
• 1994 - The planet Jupiter is hit by fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.

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• 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Napol�on surrendered at Rochefort, France, to British forces.
• 1955 - Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, United States.
• 1996 - Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound Boeing 747 carrying TWA flight 800 exploded, killing all 230 on board.
• 1998 - A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake devastated 10 villages in Papua New Guinea, killing an estimated 1,500 people, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for, and destroying the homes of thousands more.
• 1998 - Biologists reported in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum.

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• 64 - The Great fire of Rome burned completely out of control while Emperor Nero reportedly played his lyre and sang as he watched the blaze from a safe distance.
• 1863 - American Civil War: The first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, saw action against the Confederacy's Fort Wagner.
• 1925 - Adolf Hitler published his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
• 1982 - The Guatemalan army and allied paramilitaries slaughtered upwards of 250 Maya campesinos in the Plan de S�nchez massacre.

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• 711 – Muslim forces under Tariq ibn-Ziyad defeated Roderic, king of the Visigoths, in Spain.
• 1553 – Lady Jane Grey was replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after holding that title for just nine days.
• 1848 – The two-day Women's Rights Convention opened in Seneca Falls, New York, United States.
• 1870 – France declared war on Prussia, starting the Franco-Prussian War.
• 1979 – Sandinista rebels overthrew the US-backed government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.

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• 1940 – Billboard magazine published its first "Music Popularity Chart."
• 1944 – Adolf Hitler survived the July 20 Plot, an assassination attempt led by Claus von Stauffenberg.
• 1960 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected Prime Minister of Ceylon, thus becoming the world's first elected female head of government.
• 1969 – The Apollo 11 lunar module landed; Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon.
• 1976 – Viking 1 landed on Mars, marking the first visit from Earth.

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• 1298 - Edward I of England defeated William Wallace's Scottish rebels at the Battle of Falkirk.
• 1861 - The First Battle of Bull Run began, marking the first major battle of the American Civil War.
• 1970 - Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed after 11 years of construction.
• 1995 - The Chinese People's Liberation Army began firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan, starting the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis.
• 1997 - The fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") celebrated her 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.

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• 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate forces unsuccessfully attacked Union troops in the Battle of Atlanta.
• 1933 – Wiley Post became the first pilot to fly a fixed-wing aircraft solo around the world.
• 1946 – An Irgun bomb destroyed the headquarters of the British administration of Israel at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 90.
• 1991 – Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys were found in his apartment.
• 2003 – U.S. forces attacked a compound in Mosul, Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay.

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• 1926 - Fox Film Corporation bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
• 1952 - Farouk of Egypt abdicated after a coup d'�tat.
• 1962 - Telstar relayed the first live transatlantic television signal.
• 1967 - The 12th Street Riot began in the predominantly African American inner city area of Detroit, Michigan.
• 1983 - Air Canada flight 143, the "Gimli Glider", crash-landed in Gimli, Manitoba without loss of life.

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• 1901 – U.S. author O. Henry was released from prison after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
• 1911 – Hiram Bingham re-discovered Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas", in the Peruvian Andes.
• 1927 – In Ypres, Belgium, the Menin Gate war memorial was unveiled.
• 1929 – The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, went into effect.
• 2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, was sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becaming the only monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.

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• 306 – Constantine I was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
• 1909 – French aviator Louis Bl�riot made the first crossing of the English Channel in a heavier-than-air flying machine.
• 1943 – Benito Mussolini was forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and was replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
• 1978 – The first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, was born.
• 2000 – Air France Concorde Flight 4590 crashed after takeoff in Paris, killing 113 people.

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• 1139 - Afonso the Conqueror became the first king of an independent Portugal.
• 1887 - L. L. Zamenhof published Dr. Esperanto's International Language.
• 1953 - Fidel Castro led an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.
• 1963 - Syncom 2 became the world's first geosynchronous satellite.
• 1991 - Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman, was arrested for allegedly exposing himself at a Sarasota, Florida adult theatre.

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• 1789 - The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, was established (later renamed the Department of State).
• 1865 - A group of 153 Welsh settlers arrived at Chubut Valley in Argentina's Patagonia region.
• 1921 - University of Toronto researchers led by Frederick Banting announced the discovery of the hormone insulin.
• 1940 - Bugs Bunny debuted in the animated cartoon A Wild Hare.
• 1996 - Centennial Olympic Park bombing: A pipe bomb exploded during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, killing two and injuring 111.

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• 1794 - Reign of Terror leader Maximilien Robespierre was guillotined.
• 1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, starting World War I.
• 1976 - The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude flattened Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
• 1990 - Alberto Fujimori became President of Peru and the first person of East Asian descent to become executive head of state of a non-Asian nation.
• 1996 - The remains of the prehistoric Kennewick Man were discovered.

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• 1907 - The Scouting movement began with the first scout camp at Brownsea Island in Dorset, England.
• 1947 - ENIAC, the world's first all-electronic digital computer, was turned on; it remained in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
• 1954 - The first ascent of Himalayan peak K2 was completed by an Italian team.
• 1957 - The International Atomic Energy Agency was established.
• 1996 - The child protection portion of the U.S. Communications Decency Act was struck down as too broad.

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• 1619 - The first representative assembly in the Americas, Virginia's House of Burgesses, convened for the first time.
• 1825 - Malden Island (now one of Kiribati's Line Islands) was discovered.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Union forces attempted to break Confederate lines in the Battle of the Crater.
• 1966 - England won the Football World Cup, beating Germany 4 to 2.
• 2003 - The last 'old style' VW Beetle rolled off the assembly line in Puebla, Mexico.

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• 1667 - The Treaty of Breda ended the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
• 1790 - The U.S. Patent Office issued the first patent in the United States.
• 1917 - The Battle of Passchendaele began on the Western Front in World War I.
• 1941 - Holocaust: Hermann G�ring ordered SS general Reinhard Heydrich to develop a final solution to the Jewish question.
• 1971 - Apollo program: The first Lunar Rover was used during the Apollo 15 moon mission.

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