Mekstizzle wrote:
There, now this thread is ruined
* 622 – The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
* 1054 – Three Roman legates fracture relations between the Western and Eastern Christian churches by placing an invalid Papal Bull of Excommunication on the altar in the Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. This is often dated as the start of the East-West Schism.
* 1377 – Coronation of Richard II of England.
* 1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
* 1683 – Manchu Qing Dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
* 1769 – Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first mission in California. The mission later evolves into the city of San Diego.
* 1779 – American Revolutionary War: Light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
* 1782 – First performance of Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
* 1790 – The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after the signing of the Residence Act.
* 1809 – The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, lead by Pedro Domingo Murillo.
* 1862 – American Civil War: David Farragut becomes the first United States Navy rear admiral.
* 1880 – Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada.
* 1931 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
* 1935 – The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
* 1942 – Holocaust: Rafle du Vel'd'Hiv: the Vichy France government orders French police officers to round up 13,000-20,000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome.
* 1945 – Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
* 1948 – The city of Nazareth, supposed hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel led by Ben Dunkelman, after little more than token resistance, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
* 1951 – King Léopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
* 1957 – United States Marine Major John Glenn flies a F8U Crusader supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.
* 1965 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
* 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
* 1973 – Watergate Scandal: Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
* 1979 – Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
* 1981 – Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad becomes Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister until his retirement on October 31, 2003, making him Asia's longest-serving political leaders (22 years as Prime Minister of Malaysia).
* 1983 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
* 1994 – Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22.
* 1999 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn, and sister-in-law Lauren die in a plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy.
* 2004 – Millennium Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early 21st century for Chicago, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
* 2007 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off the Niigata coast, Japan, killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake.
Good thinking batman
