1106 Henry IV escapes his captors at Ingelheim, enters into negotiations at Cologne with English, French, and Danish supporters, begins to collect an army to oppose his treacherous son, but dies August 7 at age 54
1772 Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000
1824 New South Wales is constituted a Crown colony.
1835 George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal
1860 Nation's first successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nev)
1863 French protectorate over Cambodia is established.
1877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos
1909 SOS first used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC
1914 Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland
1918 Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans
1933 Temp reaches 136 degrees F (58ø C) at San Luis Potos¡, Mex (world record)
1934 First federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay
1943 Flying Officer Lloyd Allan Trigg, 200 Squadron, RAF, won the Victoria Cross over the North Sea
1944 An electric powered rescue hoist was installed on an HNS-1 helicopter at CGAS Floyd Bennett Field.
1945 Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito
1948 Summer Olympics opens in London
1952 Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan
1954 Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh
1956 Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"
1960 Chad declares independence
1960 In the first recovery of an object after it had been in orbit, a Navy HRS-3 helicopter, operating from the Haiti Victory of the Pacific Missile Range, recovered the instrumented capsule discharged by Discoverer XIII
1962 Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
1962 Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari"
1964 Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" opens in NYC
1964 Race riot in Paterson NJ
