0904 Thessalonica is stormed by the Saracen corsair Leo of Tripoli, who plunders the town and carries off some 20,000 inhabitants as slaves

1099 El Cid dies in July at age 59 after being defeated by the Almoravids at Cuenca His widow will hold Valencia against the Moors until 1102

1108 France's Philip I dies at the end of July at age 56 after a reign of nearly 48 years

1777 Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army

1790 The first US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process

1809 The first practical US railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Phila

1813 British invade Plattsburgh, NY

1815 Commodore Stephen Decatur concludes agreement with Bey of Tunis to compensate U.S. for seizure of merchant ships during the War of 1812.

1865 East India Squadron established to operate from Sunda Strait to Japan.

1872 C H F Peters discovers asteroids #122 Gerda & #123 Brunhild

1874 Commissioning of USS Intrepid, first U.S. warship equipped with torpedoes

1874 Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as pres of Georgetown U

1912 First attempt to launch an airplane by catapult made at Annapolis.

1912 US government prohibits movies & photos of prize fights (censorship)

1914 Labor leader Andrew Fisher declares at Colac that Australians will defend Britain "to our last man and our last shilling"

1917 Crpl.Leslie Wilton ANDREW, 2nd Battalion, Wellington Infantry Regiment won the Victoria Cross at La Bassee-Ville, France,

1917 Third battle of Ypres begins

1922 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's first water skis (Minn)

1925 Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England

1932 Nazi Party wins 230 seats in Reichstag and begins negotiations for Hitler to be accepted as Chancellor.

1933 USS Constitution commences tour of principal U.S. seaports.

1935 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1362 Griqua & #2865

1938 NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over the head with a club"

1941 Heydrich is appointed by Goering to carry out the Final Solution.

1942 German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia

1948 Pres Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), NY

1949 Lightning strikes a baseball field in Fla, kills the SS & 3rd baseman

1953 Dept of Health, Education & Welfare created

1960 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state

1960 Malayan Emergency ends

1962 Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) arrives in South Vietnam

1962 Federation of Malaysia formed

1964 Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor

1964 All-nuclear task force with USS Long Beach, USS Enterprise, and USS Bainbridge leaves Norfolk, VA to begin voyage, Operation Sea Orbit, to circle the globe without refueling. They returned on 3 October.

1964 US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon

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