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[edit] Events
- 1148 - Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
- 1411 - Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles on Scottish soil.
- 1534 - French explorer Jacques Cartier planted a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and took possession of the territory in the name of the King Francis I of France.
- 1814 - War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
- 1832 - Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass.
- 1847 - After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown - Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union army troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.
- 1866 - Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
- 1927 - Romanian Iron Guard founded by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.
- 1943 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day.
- 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1990 - Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait/Iraq border.
- 2001 - Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
- 2007 - Libya frees all six of the Medics in the HIV trial in Libya.
[edit] Births
- 1783 - Simón Bolívar, South American liberator (d. 1830)
- 1858 - Wolfgang Kapp, German nationalist, and nominal leader of the Kapp Putsch. (d. 1922)
- 1897 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared 1937)
- 1956 - Charles Crist, Governor of Florida
[edit] Deaths
- 1862 - Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782)
- 1997 - William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1906)
