1097 The Battle of Nicaea ends in defeat for a Muslim army at the hands of a combined force of Crusaders and Byzantine Greeks who take the Seljuk Turks' capital

1607 Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published

1741 Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms

1794 Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio

1859 Charles Blondin is first to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope

1862 Day 6 of the 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp

1870 Ada Kepley becomes first female law college graduate

1871 Guatemala revolts for agarian reforms

1881 Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia

1893 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered

1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid

1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die

1902 S I Bailey discovers asteroid #504 Cora

1906 John Hope becomes first black president of Morehouse College

1906 Pure Food &Drug Act &Meat Inspection Act adopted

1908 Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (Tunguska Event)

1911 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes

1913 2nd Balkan War begins

1914 Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa

1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica

1927 Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico

1927 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes

1933 US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id &Salt Lake City Utah closes

1934 "Night of the Long Knives,"the murderous purge of the S.A.

1934 French Equitorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit

1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1784 Benguella

1936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published

1936 40 hour work week law approved (federal)

1939 Heinkel He. 176 rocket plane flies for first time, at Peenem�nde

1940 "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, first appears

1940 US Fish &Wildlife Service established

1941 HMAS WATERHEN (RAN), lost in the Eastern Mediterranean off Bardia, east Libya by German divebombers on the 29th June.

1941 HMAS Waterhen sunk on Tobruk run

1942 Australian troops raid Salamaua

1942 US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation

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