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

1952 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki

1957 Don Bowden becomes first American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7)

1957 The first rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada

1961 The first in-flight movie shown (TWA)

1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km

1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

1966 Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)

1967 Race riots in Durham NC

1967 US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)

1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit

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