NATIONAL REPEAT DAY
1083 ― Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter's Cathedral in his first Italian campaign, defeating the Lombards.
1098 ― After 5-month siege in the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch (now in modern Turkey).
1620 ― Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
1621 ― The Dutch West India Company (WIC) receives charter for The West Indies (included, The Americas, Caribbean and West Africa).
1864 ― General Robert E. Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at the Battle of Cold Harbor.
1871 ― Jesse Woodson James and his gang robs Obocock Bank (Corydon Iowa), of $15,000.
1889 ― The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast. The last spike was driven by Donald Smith, known as Lord Strathcona, at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
1906 ― Belgian King Leopold II claims the Congo as his private possession.
1916 ― The U.S. National Defense Act, signed by President Woodrow Wilson, establishes Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC).
1918 ― The U.S. Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional in Hammer v. Dagenhart.
1935 ― French liner Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours.
1937 ― In France, the Duke of Windsor–formerly King Edward VIII of Great Britain and Northern Ireland–marries Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee for whom he abdicated the British throne in December 1936.
1940 ― On this day in 1940, the German air force bombs Paris, killing 254 people, most of them civilians.
1940 ― The last British/French troops are evacuated from Dunkirk to England during the German invasion of France in WWII.
1943 ― A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beats up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.
1944 ― The Nazis abandon Rome to the Allies during WWII.
1949 ― The first African American graduates from the U.S. Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown).
1957 ― On this day in 1957, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the chemical company E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. must give up its large stock interest in the Detroit-based automobile company General Motors on the grounds that it constituted a monopoly, or a concentration of power that reduced competition or otherwise interfered with trade.
1964 ― The Rolling Stones begin their first U.S. tour (with Bobby Goldsboro and Bobby Vee).
1974 ― Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government.
1976 ― The United States is presented with oldest known copy of the Magna Carta (signed in 1215), written in iron gall ink on parchment in medieval Latin.
1981 ― Pope John Paul II is released from hospital after an assassination attempt.
1989 ― In a freak and tragic accident, a natural-gas pipeline explodes in Russia’s Ural Mountains just as two trains pass it, killing 500.
1990 ― U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev end their three-day summit meeting with warm words of friendship but without any concrete agreement concerning German reunification.
2001 ― Iraq announces that it will halt crude oil exports in response to the UN's resolution that extends the oil-for-food program by only 1 month, instead of the normal 6-month period.
2007 ― The USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) engaged pirates after they boarded the Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia. (details). -- CNN.com
2012 ― Dana Air Flight 992 crashes in Lagos, Nigeria, killing all 152 passengers and 40 people on the ground.
2013 ― The United States extends sanctions against Iran through its automotive industry and currency.
BORN TODAY
1554 – Pietro de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1604)
1865 – George V of the United Kingdom, Monarch and grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II (d. 1936)
1931 – Raúl Castro, Cuban commander and politician, 18th President of Cuba
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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