1085 Castile's Alfonso VI takes Toledo, the Arab center of science falls into Christian hands

1085 King Alfonso VI of Castily/León occupy Toledo on Moren

1085 Pope Gregory VII dies at Salerno; Henry IV extends the "Peace of God" over the entire Holy Roman Empire

1241 First attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany

1522 Emperor Karel I returns to Spain

1632 Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen

1659 Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector

1660 English King Charles II lands in Dover

1661 King Charles II marries Portuguese princess Catherina the Bragança

1720 "Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000

1721 John Copson becomes America's first insurance agent

1784 Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek

1787 Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding

1793 Father Stephen Theodore Badin is first US Roman Catholic priest ordained

1810 Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (National Day)

1812 Earthquake destroys Caracas Venezuela

1861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting the writ

1862 Battle of Winchester VA

1864 Battle of New Hope Church GA

1868 Australian Aboriginal Cricket tour of England begins vs Surrey Gentlemen

1870 Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec

1878 Gilbert &Sullivans opera "HMS Pinafore" premieres in London

1887 Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die

1895 Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite

1898 First US troop transport to Manila leaves San Fransisco

1900 Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in the Olympics

1911 Revolution in México overthrows President José Porfirio Diaz

1914 British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule

1915 Second Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties

1922 Babe Ruth suspended 1 day &fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump

1923 Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader

1926 Sholom Schwarzband kills exiled Ukrainian Nationalist leader Simon Petlura.

1927 Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)

1928 Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is first woman to fly Atlantic Ocean

1935 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates

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