0625 Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1415 Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight

1651 Limerick, Ireland, surrenders to British after lengthy siege

1662 Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for Stg400,000 little did he know of the importance Dunkirk would have in WWII

1671 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn

1760 George III succeeds his late grandfather, George II, to become King of the British Empire.

1764 John Adams marries Abigail Smith (marriage lasts 54 years)

1812 The U.S. frigate United States captures the British ship Macedonian during the War of 1812.

1854 The Charge of the Light Brigade takes place during the Crimean War.

1870 Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore

1891 The first International 6 day bike race (NY MSG) ends

1900 England annexes Transvaal

1903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin

1915 Atty James L Curtis named minister of Liberia

1918 Nearly 400 passengers drown when the Canadian steamship Princess Sophia founders off the Alaskan coast.

1921 Bat Masterson gambler, saloon keeper, lawman, journalist; subject of TV series in the 1960s; died

1924 Airship, USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), completes round trip transcontinental cruise that began on 7 October.

1924 The first appearance of Little Orphan Annie comic strip

1926 Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach & gm of NY Rangers

1927 Criminals Squizzy Taylor and Snowy Cutmore die in shootout at Carlton, Melbourne.

1929 Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe

1930 The first scheduled transcontinental air service began

1935 Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie & Jacmel Haiti

1936 Hitler and Mussolini form the Rome-Berlin Axis.

1944 During Battle of Leyte Gulf in Battle of Surigao Straits, U.S. battleships execute the maneuver of "crossing the tee" of the Japanese forces. In Battle Off Samar, escort carriers, destroyers and destroyer escorts heroically resist attacks of Japanese Center Force. In Battle Off Cape Engano, 3rd Fleet carriers attack Japanese Northern Force sinking several small carriers.

1944 HMCS SKEENA (RCN), lost at Reykjavik, Iceland - driven ashore in heavy gale and wrecked.

1944 Japanese navy defeated at battle of Leyte Gulf

1945 Japanese surrender Taiwan to Gen Chiang Kai-shek

1950 Battle of Pakchon, Korea starts

1950 Chinese Communist Forces launch first offensive in Korea.

1951 Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom

1960 The first electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC

1962 110th member of the UN admitted (Uganda)

1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature

1962 Photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba is presented to the U.N. Security council by U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson.

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