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70 The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.


367 Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus by his father and associated to the throne aged eight.

1532 the Duchy of Brittany is annexed to the Kingdom of France.

1578 Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir: the Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.

1693 Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne.


1704 War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.


1789 In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.

1790 A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).

1791The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.


1821 Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.


1824 The Battle of Kos is fought between Turk and Greek forces.

1854 The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.


1863 Matica Slovenska, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.


1873 Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.


1892 The parents of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.

1902 The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.

1906 Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.


1914 World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declare their neutrality.



1916 World War I: Liberia declares war on Germany.

1924 Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.


1936 Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.


1944 The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.

1946 An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits the northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.


1947 The Supreme Court of Japan is established.


1954 The Government of Pakistan approves Qaumi Tarana, written by Hafeez Jullundhry and composed by Ahmed Ghulamali Chagla, as the national anthem.


1958 The Billboard Hot 100 is founded.


1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.


1964 American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.


1965 The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.


1969 Vietnam War: at the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.



1975 The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish charge d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.


1977 US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.



1984 The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.



1987 The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues 'fairly'.


1991 The Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.



1993 A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.


1995 Operation Storm begins in Croatia.



2002 Soham murders: 10-year-old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom


.2005 Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaelle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.



2007 NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched.2007Airport police officer Maria del Lujan Telpuk discovers a suitcase containing the undeclared sum of US$800,000 as it goes through an x-ray machine in Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina known as 'Maletinazo'.


2010 California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.