1110 Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath

1364 Peter Coutherel banished from Leuven

1497 Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola

1559 Excavated corpse of heretic David Jorisz burned in Basel

1568 Mary Queen of Scots is defeated by English at battle of Langside

1588 King Henri III flees Paris

1607 English colonists (John Smith) land near James River in Virginia

1624 Admiral Hermites fleet blockade Lima Peru

1637 Cardinal Richelieu of France creates the table knife

1643 Battle at Grantham English parliamentary armies beat royalists

1643 Heavy earthquake strikes Santiago Chile; kills 1/3 of population

1652 Ingen Ryuki invited to become the abbot of Sofokuji temple in Nagasaki

1654 Venetian fleet under Admiral Adeler beats Turkish

1777 University library at Vienna opens

1779 War of Bavarian Succession ends

1787 A fleet of eleven ships left Britain with two years provision and a cargo of 759 unwilling convicts, their guards,and ships crew numbering - 1530 people in all. They were to colonise a new land. Australia

1787 Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay

1846 US declares war on México, 2 months after fighting begins

1861 Queen Victoria announces England's position of neutrality

1864 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Resaca GA

1865 South Brownsville TX (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed

1876 Amersfoort-Zutphen railway opens

1882 Toba-Indians killed 20 members of French expedition

1884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is founded

1888 Brazil abolishes slavery

1888 DeWolf Hopper first recited "Casey at the Bat"

1888 Princess Isabel of Brazil signs "Lei Auréa" abolishing slavery

1890 Lord Salisbury offers Germany Helgoland in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda & Equatoria

1906 Bezalel Art School opens in Jerusalem

1908 Navy Nurse Corps established.

1909 Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands

1912 Royal Flying Corps is established in England

1913 The first 4 engine aircraft built & flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)

1916 42nd Kentucky Derby Johnny Loftus aboard George Smith wins in 2 04

1916 The first observance of Indian (Native American) Day

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