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193 The Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
1215 Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
1252 Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and Leσn.
1298 Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
1495 Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
1533 Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
1535 Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
1648 The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
1649 Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
1660 Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1670 In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the secret treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
1679 The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
1779 Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
1792 Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
1794 The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
1796 Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
1812 War of 1812: The U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
1813 James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!"
1815 Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
1831 James Clark Ross discovers the Magnetic North Pole.
1855 The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
1857 Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
1861 American Civil War, Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861): the first land battle of the American Civil War after the Battle of Fort Sumter, producing the first Confederate combat casualty.
1862 American Civil War, Peninsula Campaign: the Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
1868 The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
1879 Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1890 The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
1910 Robert Falcon Scott's second South Pole expedition leaves Cardiff.
1913 The GreekSerbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
1916 Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
1918 World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1921 Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1922 The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
1929 The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
1939 First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter-bomber airplane.
1941 World War II: the Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
1941 The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
1943 British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing the actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that its shooting down was an attempt to kill the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1946 Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania during World War II, is executed.
1958 Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
1960 New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
1962 The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.
1963 Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles is released.
1974 Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
1974 The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1978 The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
1979 The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
1980 Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1990 George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
1993 Dobrinja mortar attack: 13 are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
1999 American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
2001 Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
2001 Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
2003 The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
2009 Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
2009 General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
2011 A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
2014 A bombing at a football field in Mubi, Nigeria, kills at least 40 people.
Events:C/P
193 The Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
1215 Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
1252 Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and Leσn.
1298 Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
1495 Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
1533 Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
1535 Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
1648 The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
1649 Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
1660 Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1670 In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the secret treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
1679 The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
1779 Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
1792 Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
1794 The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
1796 Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
1812 War of 1812: The U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
1813 James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!"
1815 Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
1831 James Clark Ross discovers the Magnetic North Pole.
1855 The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
1857 Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
1861 American Civil War, Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861): the first land battle of the American Civil War after the Battle of Fort Sumter, producing the first Confederate combat casualty.
1862 American Civil War, Peninsula Campaign: the Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
1868 The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
1879 Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1890 The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
1910 Robert Falcon Scott's second South Pole expedition leaves Cardiff.
1913 The GreekSerbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
1916 Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
1918 World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1921 Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1922 The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
1929 The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
1939 First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter-bomber airplane.
1941 World War II: the Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
1941 The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
1943 British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing the actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that its shooting down was an attempt to kill the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1946 Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania during World War II, is executed.
1958 Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
1960 New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
1962 The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.
1963 Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles is released.
1974 Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
1974 The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1978 The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
1979 The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
1980 Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1990 George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
1993 Dobrinja mortar attack: 13 are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
1999 American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
2001 Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
2001 Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
2003 The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
2009 Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
2009 General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
2011 A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
2014 A bombing at a football field in Mubi, Nigeria, kills at least 40 people.