1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1298 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk – King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
1499 - Battle of Dornach – The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.
1706 - The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries' Parliaments, lead to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
1937 - New Deal: the United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
1942 - Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
2011 - Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
Famous Birthdays
1210 - Joan of England, Queen of Scots, wife of Alexander II of Scotland
1478 - King Philip I of Castile
1713 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, architect
1888 - Selman Waksman, biochemist, Nobel laureate
1937 - John Price, cricketer
1954 - Pierre Lebeau, actor
1964 - Adam Godley, actor
1980 - Scott Dixon, racing driver
1992 - Selena Gomez, actress and pop singer
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