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1100 – King William II of England, son of William the Conqueror, is killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest.
1552 – The Treaty of Passau gives religious freedom to Lutherans in Germany.
1589 – France’s King Henry III is assassinated at St Cloud by Jacques Clement, a Jacobin monk.
1718 – Quadruple Alliance is formed by Britain, the Netherlands, France and the Holy Roman Empire against an aggressive policy pursued by Spain.
1788 – Death of Thomas Gainsborough, English portrait and landscape artist.
1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte of France is declared Consul for Life, giving him power to name his successor.
1830 – France’s King Charles X abdicates after three days of an uprising in Paris.
1858 – British Parliament passes the India Bill, transferring the government of India to the Crown from the East India Company.
1865 – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is published in England.
1876 – Wild Bill Hickok, US marshal and one of the most colourful figures of the Wild West, is killed in a saloon.

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1903 – Macedonians take arms to free themselves from Turkish rule. The rebellion is crushed in 11 days.
1914 – Germany occupies Luxembourg and sends an ultimatum to Belgium to allow passage of its troops across its territory.
1921 – Death of Enrico Caruso, Italian operatic tenor.
1922 – Death of Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor of the telephone in 1876.
1923 – Death of Warren G Harding, 29th US president on his return to San Francisco from a trip to Alaska.
1928 – Italy signs 20-year treaty of friendship with Ethiopia.
1934 – Germany’s President Paul von Hindenburg dies aged 87, opening way for Adolf Hitler to become dictator.
1935 – Britain passes Government of India Act, which reforms governmental system, separates Burma and Aden from India, grants provincial governments, greater self-government and creates central legislature in New Delhi.
1936 – Death of Louis Bleriot, French aviator and the first to fly the English Channel.
1939 – Albert Einstein, concerned that Nazis are working on powerful bombs using uranium, writes to US President Roosevelt urging him to start an atomic project.
1940 – Hermann Goering, chief of the Luftwaffe, gives the Eagle Day directive to destroy British air power to pave the way for an invasion of Britain.
1943 – US Navy patrol torpedo boat, PT-109, commanded by Lieutenant John F Kennedy, sinks after being sheared in two by a Japanese destroyer off the Solomon Islands; Kennedy was credited with saving members of the crew.
1944 – Joseph P Kennedy, US navy pilot and elder brother of John F Kennedy, is killed when his plane explodes over the Belgian coast.
1945 – Potsdam conference ends with Truman, Stalin and Attlee in agreement on the demilitarisation and division of Germany.
1956 – Britain rejects request of Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland for status as separate state within British Commonwealth.
1963 – United States tells United Nations it will halt all sales of military equipment to South Africa because of apartheid.
1964 – US reports the first of two attacks on its destroyers by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1970 – British army uses rubber bullets for the first time to quell a riot in Northern Ireland.
1971 – United States says it will support seating China in United Nations but will oppose expulsion of Chinese Nationalists.
1980 – Terrorist bomb attack on railway station at Bologna, Italy, kills 85 people.
1982 – Daily Sun first published in Brisbane.
1985 – A Delta Airlines Tristar airliner crashes on its final approach to Dallas-Fort Worth airport, killing 133 people.
1988 – Soviet military unveils its new top-secret Blackjack bomber to US Defence Secretary Frank Carlucci.
1989 – Trade restrictions between Britain and Argentina are lifted for the first time since the 1982 Falklands war.
1990 – Iraqi tanks and infantry overrun Kuwait in predawn strike after dispute over oil and frontier.
1992 – Security forces arrest 50 armed Islamic extremists and seize an arms cache containing 130 bombs in Algiers.
1993 – Serb gunners sink part of a vital bridge severing the only land link between the southern Dalmation coast and the rest of Croatia.
1994 – Eleven people die in explosion at Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea.
1995 – Death of Labor politician Fred Daly, 83, last surviving member of Australia’s Curtin government; King Fahd replaces his oil and finance ministers in Saudi Arabia’s most significant leadership shake-up since he came to power in 1982.
1996 – In Atlanta, American Michael Johnson becomes the first athlete to win both the 200 and 400 metre races at the same Olympic games.
1997 – Former warlord Charles Taylor is sworn in as Liberia’s president, marking the completion of a transition from seven years of civil war; Death aged 83 of US beat generation writer William S Burroughs; Typhoon Victor injures 32 people in Hong Kong.
1998 – Afghanistan’s Taliban fighters capture the stronghold of warlord Rashid Dostum, putting the religious militia on the doorstep of the opposition’s headquarters.
1999 – In India 285 people die when two trains crash head-on in the predawn darkness near Gaisal, about 500 km north of Calcutta. Some 300 are injured.
2000 – Israel’s Foreign Minister David Levy carries out his threat to resign, accusing Prime Minister Ehud Barak of making too many concessions to the Palestinians.
2001 – Muslim extremists seize 36 Filipinos on the southern island of Basilan and behead at least four; Bosnian Serb general Radislav Krstic is jailed for 46 years for the murder of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in the Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War Two.
2001 – Ron Townson, the centrepiece singer for the pop group the 5th Dimension, dies of renal failure in Las Vegas. He was 68.
2002 – Kazakh authorities sentenced Galymzhan Zhakiyanov, founding member of the reform movement Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (DCK), to seven years in prison for corruption and abuse of power.
2003 – The US State Department suspends two programs that allowed foreign air travellers on certain routes to enter the country without a visa.
2004 – Police ban trucks from some bridges and tunnels and post heavily armed officers around financial landmarks in response to recent intelligence indicating that terrorists have focused on five buildings in New York City, New Jersey and Washington, DC.

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