1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
1497 - Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.
1859 - King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1889 - The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
1948 - The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force
1994 - Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
Famous Birthdays:
1490 - Albert, Duke of Prussia
1792 - Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Queen of Bavaria
1830 - Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg, German-born wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia
1944 - Jeffrey Tambor, actor
1958 - Neetu Singh, actress
1971 - Neil Jenkins, rugby player
1980 - Robbie Keane, footballer
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