622 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
1054 - Three Roman legates break relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing an invalidly-issued Papal bull of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Historians frequently describe the event as the start of the East–West Schism.
1377 - Coronation of Richard II of England.
1557 - Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of King Henry VIII dies.
1661 - The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
1790 - The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
1809 - The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo.
1861 - American Civil War: at the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25 mile march into Virginia for what will become the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.
1931 - Emperor Haile Selassie I signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
1935 - The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1951 - King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
1965 - The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1979 - Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
1993 -The Slackware operating system is first released.
2008 - Sixteen infants in Gansu Province, China, who had been fed on tainted milk powder, are diagnosed with kidney stones; in total an estimated 300,000 infants are affected.
Famous Birthdays
1194 - St. Clare of Assisi, saint
1611 - Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen consort of Poland and Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania
1896 - Trygve Lie, 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations
1919 - Choi Kyu-hah, 4th President of South Korea
1936 - Buddy Merrill, guitarist
1942 - Margaret Court, tennis player
1956 - Jerry Doyle, actor
1967 - Will Ferrell, comedian and actor
1968 - Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia
1976 - Anna Smashnova, tennis player
1987 - Andrew James Allen, actor
1990 - James Maslow, actor, singer, and dancer
1994 - Mark Indelicato, actor
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