1333 Battle of Halidon Hill at Berwick where an English army under Edward III and Edward Balliol defeated the Scots forces led by Sir Archibald Douglas. English archers devastated the Scottish army and inflicted terrible losses, including six earls, seventy barons and over 500 knights
1553 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days
1810 Prussia's Queen Louise dies at age 34 Napoleon has tried to destroy her reputation, but his charges have only endeared her to her people
1816 Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days
1848 The first women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, NY)
1860 The railroad reaches Kansas
1862 Forrest's first raid
1870 France declares war on Prussia; the Franco-Prussian war begins
1875 Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC
1877 The first Wimbledon tennis championships held
1880 SF Public Library starts lending books
1882 J Palisa discovers asteroid #226 Weringia
1907 K Lohnert discovers asteroid #639 Latona
1913 Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1
1916 Battle of Fromelles, France starts
1918 German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)
1925 V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1059 Mussorgskia
1928 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1305 Pongola
1939 The first use of fiberglass sutures, R.P. Scholz, St Louis, Mo
1941 British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
1941 President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee
1941 The first US Army flying school for black cadets dedicted (Tuskegee Ala)
1942 Himmler sends a secret directive to SS Lieutenant General F.W. Kinger ordering the "resettlement" of the entire Jewish population of the General Government, to be completed by December 31.
1943 Allied air forces raid Rome during WW II
1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union
