1148 - Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI.
1783 - The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
1823 - Slavery is abolished in Chile.
1911 - Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
1938 - First ascent of the Eiger north face.
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1977 - End of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
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.
Famous Birthdays:
923 - Emperor Suzaku of Japan
1725 - John Newton, cleric and hymnist
1803 - Adolphe Charles Adam, composer
1867 - Edward Frederic Benson, writer
1897 - Amelia Earhart, aviator - First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and setting many aviation records
1933 - John Aniston, actor
1947 - Zaheer Abbas, cricketer
1975 - Dafydd James, rugby player
1980 - Wilfred Bungei, runner
1987 - Cafu, footballer
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