1099 Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon

1263 King James I or Argon censors Hebrew writings

1561 Mary Proclaimed Queen of Scots

1787 W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn

1812 USS Constitution captures HMS Guerriere. Lucy Brewer served on board Consituation as Nicolas Baker during this battle.

1888 First beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins

1891 William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum

1903 Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game

1909 First race at the Indianapolis 500 Speedway

1917 Sunday benefit baseball game at the Polo Grounds results in John McGraw andChristy Mathewson's arrest

1934 Helen Hull Jacobs win US Lawn Tennis Association

1934 Plebiscite in Germany approved sole executive power to Adolph Hitler

1942 1,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France

1942 First American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is

1942 Honorary Capt. John Weir Foote (Cdn. Chaplain Service) wins the Victoria Cross at Dieppe, France

1942 Lt.-Colonel Charles C.I. Merritt (The South Saksatchewan Regiment) wins the Victoria Corss at Dieppe, France

1950 ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic and Acrobat Ranch)

1954 Ralph J Bunche named undersecretary of UN

1955 Hurricane Diane kills 200 and is the first billion $ damage storm (N.E. US)

1958 NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters

1960 American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers sentenced to ten years in a Soviet prison for espionage

1960 Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive)

1967 Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1

1967 Operation Coronado IV begins in Mekong Delta

1973 Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years

1976 Pres Gerald R Ford won Republican pres nomination at KC convention

1978 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran

1978 First transatlantic balloon crossing in history finishes in Paris

1979 Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight

1980 Saudi Arabian Lockheed Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die

1981 2 VF-41 aircraft from USS Nimitz shoot down 2 Libyan aircraft which fired on them over international waters

1982 Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec

1982 Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space

1983 LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting

1984 Lee Trevino wins the PGA

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