325 – Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity

357 – Battle at Straatsburg: Julianus beats Alamannen, Chonodomarius caught

1212 – Children’s cruisaders under Nicolas (10) reach Genoa

1248 – The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.

1330 – AntiPope Nicolaas V overthrows himself

1425 – Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail

1485 – Battle at Bosworth Fields: Henry Tudor beats king Richard III

1499 – Battle at Sapienza: Turkish fleet beats Venetians

1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.

1540 – Explorer Hernando de Alarcon travels up Colorado River

1566 – Iconoclastic fury begins in Dutch province Utrecht

1580 – Battle of Alcantara, Spain defeats Portugal

1609 – Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers

1628 – Assault on sultan of Mantarams of Batavia

1689 – Battle at Charleroi: Spanish & English armies chase French

1689 – Montreal taken by Iroquois

1698 – Czar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through West-Europe

1704 – Battle at Malaga: French vs English & Dutch fleet

1718 – Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found

Captain/Explorer James Cook1768 – Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England on his 1st voyage onboard the Endeavour bound for the Pacific Ocean

1795 – Curacao slaves opponents returns to St Christopher

1802 – Toussaint L’Ouverture imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France

1804 – Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey (England)

1814 – British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books

1825 – Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)

1829 – Pres Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses

1830 – Belgium revolts against Netherlands and begins The Belgian Revolution

1835 – NY Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel

1862 – Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves

1864 – Combination rail & ferry service available from SF to Alameda

1864 – Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream’s Station

1875 – Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel (21h 45m)

1886 – 1st intl polo meet (US vs England)

1888 – 8th US Mens Tennis: Henry W Slocum Jr beats Howard A Taylor (64 61 60)

Russian Tsar Peter the Great1890 – Would be start of Eng/Aust Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout

1894 – -26] Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed

1894 – Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.

1898 – 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Greece.

1904 – James J Jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title

1908 – Allen Winter wins US 1st $50,000 trotting race

1908 – National Association of Colored Nurses, forms

1910 – 30th US Mens Tennis: Wm Larned beats Thomas Bundy (61 57 60 68 61)

1910 – Yellow Cab is founded.

1912 – 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin

1912 – Different nationalities battle with each other in Macedonia

1912 – The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.

1914 – -26] Belgian offensive at Antwerp

1914 – Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven Belgium

1914 – German Zeppelins bomb Antwerp Belgium, 10 die

1914 – German troops march into France pushes French army to the Sedan

1915 – Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage

1916 – Dept of Interior forms National Park Service

1917 – 37th US Mens Tennis: R Lindley Murray beats N W Niles (57 86 63 63)

1919 – 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)

1920 – 1st US woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey)

1920 – Russia suffers a decisive defeat in the battle of Warsaw against Poland

1921 – US signs peace treaty with Germany

1921 – Yankee pitcher Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying record

1921 – The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.

1922 – Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game

1924 – International maritime treaty drawn

1924 – Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn

1925 – Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY)

1925 – Last Belgian troops vacate Duisburg

1926 – Pavlos Koundouris becomes president of Greece

1928 – Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina & Winnipeg

1929 – Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage

1932 – Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight

1936 – 3 Braves hit twice in an inning getting 2 hits each

1937 – Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast

1940 – 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)

1940 – Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union

1941 – English & Russian troops attack pro-German Iran

1941 – German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad

1942 – SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht Neth

1943 – 10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471)

1943 – German occupiers impose 72-hour work week

1943 – Lord Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia

1943 – Red Army under Gen Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka

1943 – US forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II

1944 – France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame

1944 – Gen De Gaulle returns to Paris/walks Champs Elysees Paris

1944 – Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday)

1944 – US 12nd Army corp reaches Troyes

1945 – Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine

1946 – 28th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Portland GC Portland Ore

1947 – Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1,047 kph

1948 – Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord’s

1950 – Pres Harry Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike

Middle/welterweight championship boxer Sugar Ray Robinson1950 – Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title

1951 – Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game

1952 – Det Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0

1952 – Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth

1954 – Ivan Filin wins Berne marathon (2:25:26.6) (260m)

1955 – Last Soviet forces leave Austria

1956 – To make room for Enos Slaughter, NY Yanks release Phil Rizzuto

1957 – Prince Suvanna Phuma forms government in LAOS, with Pathet Lao

1960 – 17th summer olympics opens in Rome

1960 – AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies

1960 – Demonstrations against premier Lumumba

1961 – Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns

1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1963 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ogden Ladies’ Golf Open

Pop Star & Beatle Paul McCartney1963 – Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds & given a 1 yr suspended license for speeding

1964 – Singapore limits imports from Neth due to Indonesian aggression

1967 – Beatles go to Wales to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

1967 – Minn Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month beats Cleveland, 2-1

1967 – Paraguay accepts its constitution

1967 – Train crash at Beesd, 2 die

1968 – Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win US singles championship

1968 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf

1968 – NY Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 innings & beats Tigers 6-5; he played right field in 2nd game & homered

1969 – Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montreal (NFL expo)

1970 – Elton John’s 1st US appearance (Los Angeles)

1973 – Butch Trucks drummer of Allman Brothers, breaks leg in a car crash

1973 – France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1973 – Guitarist Henry McCullough quits Wings

1973 – Zambia adopts constitution

Singer Elton John1974 – France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1974 – LA Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup

1976 – Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion

1976 – Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings

1978 – Baseball umps stage a 1 day strike

1979 – “Madwoman of Central Park West” closes at 22 Steps NYC after 86 perfs

1979 – California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2

1979 – Somali adopts constitution

1980 – “42nd Street” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 3486 performances

1980 – Gower Champion’s musical “42nd Street,” premieres in NYC

1980 – Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs

1981 – Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09)

1981 – Voyager 2’s closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km)

1983 – Triple A baseball’s Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark

1983 – US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact

1984 – French airship capsizes

1984 – USSR performs underground nuclear test

1985 – Met Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)

1985 – Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament

1985 – STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem

1986 – A’s Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run

1987 – Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42

Pop Star Madonna1987 – Madonna sings in Rotterdam

1988 – Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston

1988 – Heavy fire destroys historic center of Lisbon

1988 – Iran & Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war

1988 – NASA launches space vehicle S-214

1989 – After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune & its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps

1989 – Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan’s first female cabinet secretary.

1990 – Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman’s record (47’8½”)

1990 – UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq

1991 – “Getting Married” closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 70 perfs

1991 – 43rd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Kirstie Alley & Patricia Wettig

1991 – 91st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mitch Voges

1991 – Carl Lewis rus 100m in 9.86 seconds

1991 – Cubs Doug Dascenzo commits his 1st career error after 242 games

1991 – Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.62)

Olympic Sprinter and Long jumper Carl Lewis1991 – Martha Nause wins LPGA Chicago Sun-Times Shoot-Out Golf Tournament

1991 – Norway & Denmark recognize independence of former USSR Baltic reps

1991 – Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53)

1991 – White-Russia declares it’s independence

1991 – Linux was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project to create a new operating system.

1992 – Jamie Solinger, of Iowa, crowned 10th Miss Teen USA

1995 – Andrew Symonds scores 254 Gloucs v Glam, world record 16 x 6

1995 – Indians’ Jose Mesa fails in save attempt after 38th consecutive saves

1996 – 96th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods

1996 – Laura Davies wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic

1997 – Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.

2003 – The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).

2012 – 330 people are killed as a result of conflict in the Syrian civil war

2012 – 39 people are killed and 80 are injured after a gas leak in North Venezuelan refinery

2012 – 85,000 people are displaced by severe floods in Myanmar