1356 English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers

1777 Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or first Battle of Saratoga

1796 George Washington's farewell address as president

1846 Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning elopes

1848 Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion, moon of Saturn

1849 First commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California

1862 Battle of Luka, Miss

1863 Battle of Chickamauga, Tenn (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat

1864 Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia

1873 Black Friday Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic

1890 Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540

1893 New Zealand grants women the vote

1928 Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC)

1929 Adam West, actor (Batman) born

1934 Bruno Hauptmann arrested for kidnapping the Linbergh baby

1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile women to work in Jewish homes

1941 HMCS Levis (Corvette) torpedoed

1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London

1949 Twiggy, British actress/model born

1955 Juan Peron, president of Argentina since 1946, was deposed and exiled in a military coup,

1957 Bathyscaph Trieste, in a dive sponsored by the Office of Naval Research in the Mediterranean, reaches record depth of 2 miles

1957 The first underground nuclear explosion (Las Vegas Nevada)

1959 Nikita Krushchev is denied access to Disneyland

1968 A baby was born on Golden Gate Bridge yes the event slowed traffic

1970 "Mary Tyler Moore" show premiers

1979 Robert is born

1980 Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR)

1981 Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket

1981 Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert

1982 Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service

1983 St Christopher-Nevis gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)

1985 9,500 die in Mexico's earthquake (6.9)

1986 Federal health officals announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients

1988 Israel launches first satellite, for secret military reconnaissance

1989 Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to New Zealand (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran)

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