0530 [Discorus] ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1066 The Battle of Hastings seals the Norman conquest of England by Norsemen under William, 39, duke of Normandy, who will be called William the Conqueror and will rule England as William I until his death in 1087

1586 Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth

1774 First Continental Congress is first to declare colonial rights (Phila)

1806 Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians

1843 British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy

1867 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun resigns in Japan

1881 Eyemouth Fishing Disaster, known locally as 'Disaster Day', some 129 men and boys, one in three of the Berwickshire town's fishermen lost their lives in a hurricane

1884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film

1920 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland

1922 First automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC

1933 Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations

1939 HMS ROYAL OAK sunk at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, north of Scotland by 3 torpedoes from German U-47.

1944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face trial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler

1947 Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes first supersonic flight (Mach 1.015)

1949 14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition

1950 Rev Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison

1953 Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment

1958 Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community

1960 Peace Corps First suggested by JFK

1964 Martin Luther King Jr wins Nobel Peace Prize

1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km

1966 The first day of operation of the Montreal subway operated by la Société de Transport de la Communauté Urbaine de Montréal (STCUM).

1968 First live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7)

1968 Gruener and Watson (US) set scuba depth record (133 m) in Bahamas

1968 In Western Australia a 6.8 earthquake earthquake wrecked the town of Meckering and ruptured all major roads and railways nearby

1968 J.R. Hines of US runs 100 m in world record 9.95 sec

1969 Race riots in Springfield Mass

1971 2 killed in Memphis racial disturbances

1975 Pres Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside

1976 Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6, but returns without docking

1977 Linda Ronstadt sings the national anthem at the 74th World Series

1978 First TV movie from a TV series-"Rescue from Gilligan's Island"

1979 NHL's greatest scorer Wayne Gretsky scores his First NHL goal

1980 Pres nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court

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