1829 Sir Robert Peel introduces the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 into Parliament to establish a unified police force for London
1862 Slavery outlawed in US territories
1944 World War II: First day of the 2 day Battle of the Philippine Sea, US naval forces defeat Japanese fleet
1991 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar surrenders to police
2000 Tiger Woods wins golf's US Open by 15 shots, a record for all majors, with a US Open to-par record score of -12
987 Louis IV, crowned king of France1179 The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil war
1205 Pope Innocent III fires Adolf I as archbishop of Cologne
1269 King Louis IX of France decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame
1286 Rabbenu Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in fortress of Ensisheim
1306 The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Robert Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven
1464 French King Louis XI forms postal service
1502 Emperor Maximilian I and England sign treaty of Antwerp
1572 Garrison under Adrian van Swieten occupy Oudewater
1586 English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, North Carolina
1588 Spanish Armada heavily destroyed in storm at Coruna
1603 Merga Bien arrested for witchcraft in Fulda, Germany, part of Fulda witch trials. She and about 250 people later burned at the stake
1631 Peace of Cherasco: Charles de Gonzaga-Nevers becomes duke of Mantua
1669 Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as king
1754 Albany Congress held by seven British colonies & Iroquois indians
1770 General Church of New Jerusalem established
1770 Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion
1778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge
1790 French Revolution: The National Assembly issues a decree abolishing the titles, orders and other privileges of the French nobility
1807 Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos
1816 Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
1821 Decisive defeat of the Greek revolutionary society Philikà EtaireÃa by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia)
1825 Gioacchino Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims" premieres
1846 First offically recognised baseball game (played by Cartwright Rules) - NY Nines 23 defeat Knickerbockers 1 at Hoboken, New Jersey
1861 Anaheim Post Office established
1861 Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia
1862 Slavery outlawed in US territories
1863 Battle at Middleburg Virginia (100+ casualties)
1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France
1864 Skirmish at Pine Knob, Georgia
1865 Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas
1867 1st Belmont: J Gilpatrick aboard Ruthless wins in 3:05
1868 Major general E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia, South Carolina
1875 Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio in San Francisco.
1875 The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins
1881 Muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip"
1894 28th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Henry of Navarre wins in 1:56.5
1897 Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends
1897 11th U.S. Women's National Championship: Juliette Atkinson beats Elisabeth Moore (6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 3-6, 6-3
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