0707 John VII ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1016 Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon)

1648 First US labor organization forms (Boston Shoemakers)

1667 Brooklyn is chartered under the name Brueckelen by the governor of New Netherlands Mathias Nicolls

1685 Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism

1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession

1767 Boundary between Md & Pa, the Mason Dixon line, agreed upon

1776 In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"

1867 US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million)

1887 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Case of Identity" (BG)

1890 John Owen is first man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds

1892 First commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)

1898 American flag raised in Puerto Rico

1908 Belgium annexes Congo Free State

1909 Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m

1912 Beginning of the first Balkan War

1912 Italo-Turkish war ends

1922 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) established

1940 HMS H.49,sunk off Texel island, Holland in North Sea by depth charges from German anti-submarine trawlers UJ.116 and UJ.118. On patrol off Dutch coast at time of threatened German invasion of Britain

1944 Hitler orders the establishment of "Volkssturm." Boys between fifteen and eighteen and men between fifty and sixty are drafted into service. The Nazis have to mobilize replacements for 500,000 men.

1944 Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II

1954 Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US

1955 Track & Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athlete

1960 In Britain, the News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge,

1960 The London Evening Star merges with the Evening News

1962 Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA

1962 US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon

1963 IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics

1967 Soviet Venera 4 becomes the first probe to send data back from Venus

1967 Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released

1968 Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas

1968 John Lennon & Yoko Ono fined for marijuana possession

1969 Federal govt bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners

1969 Soyuz 8 returns to Earth

1973 Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin

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