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

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

1965 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles

1965 Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC

1966 Last Beatle concert tour of the US begins

1974 Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)

1975 US vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to UN

1976 Keith Moon, drummer for the Who, collapses and is hospitalized in Miami

1977 The first CH-46E Sea Knight with newly developed fiberglass rotor blades was flown by Marine Corps helicopter pilots

1978 Funeral of Pope Paul VI

1984 Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds

1984 During a radio voice test Pres Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"

1985 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz

1988 Meir Kahane renounced US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament

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