0763 -BC- Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on clay tablet

0923 The Battle of Soissons ends with the death of Robert at the hands of Charles III, but Charles is defeated and the barons elect Rudolf, duke of Burgundy, to succeed Robert They imprison Charles, who will die at Peronne in 929

1094 Valencia falls to El Cid after a siege of 9 months by an army of 7,000 men, most of them Muslims

1215 King John of England signs the Magna Carta, granting his barons more liberty

1219 King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark

1381 Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London

1389 Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs, Bosnians

1520 Pope threatens to toss Luther out of Catholic Church

1567 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy

1590 Pope Leo X threatens to ex-communicate Martin Luther

1775 George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army

1779 General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx

1785 2 French balloonists die in world's first fatal aviation accident

1804 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president

1844 Charles Goodyear receives a patent for his process to strengthen rubber.

1846 Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49ø N

1851 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up first ice-cream factory

1857 SF Water Works organized

1860 The first White settlement in Idaho (Franklin)

1862 Gen JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan"

1864 Arlington National Cemetary is established by an order signed by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

1864 Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line

1864 Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington, VA) becomes a miltary cemetery

1866 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #88 Thisbe

1866 Prussia attacks Austria

1869 Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY

1869 Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout

1871 Phoebe Couzins is first woman graduate of a US collegiate law school

1876 Sara Spencer (R) is first woman to address a US presidential cconvention

1877 Henry O Flipper becomes first black graduate at West Point

1878 The first attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground

1896 Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed

1902 Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time

1902 The Twentieth Century Limited goes into service to begin a 65-year career on the route between New York and Chicago

1904 Side-wheeler "General Slocum" burns in NY's East River (1,031 die)

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