0905 The Holy Roman Emperor Louis III is surprised after having subdued the Lombards He is blinded and sent back to Arles

1588 English fleet defeats Spanish armada

1667 The Treaties of Breda signed, ended the second Anglo-Dutch war after a Dutch fleet has broken the chain in England's Medway River, reached Chatham, and captured the flagship Royal Charles.

1796 Robert Burns Scottish poet, dies

1846 Mormons found first English settlement in Calif (San Joaquin Valley)

1861 Battle of first Bull Run

1861 The first major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins

1880 Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY League merge to form National Association of Colored Woman

1898 Spain cedes Guam to US

1904 Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH

1919 Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)

1928 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1096 Reunerta

1930 US Veterans Administration established

1931 Reno race track, becomes first in US to use daily double wagering

1934 113ø F (45ø C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)

1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1358 Gaika

1940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

1942 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Va

1944 Invasion and recapture of Guam begins.

1944 US forces free Guam of Japanese invaders

1946 In first U.S. test of adaptability of jet aircraft to shipboard operations, XFD-1 Phantom makes landings and takeoffs without catapults from Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1948 Arshile Gorky abstract expressionist, dies at 43

1949 Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13

1954 At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam

1957 Bernard Spooner US inventor of bulletproof jacket, dies

1959 The first atomic powered merchant ship, Savannah, christened, Camden NJ

1960 The country of Katanga forms in Africa

1961 Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom

1962 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany Ga

1965 Pakistan, Iran & Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact

1966 Gemini X returns to Earth

1967 Basil Rathbone Johannesburg S Africa, actor, dies at 75

1969 Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2 56 15 AM (GMT)

1969 Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits

1972 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76 (Seville, Spain)

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