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Year 554
Emperor Justinian I rewards Liberius for his long and distinguished service in the Pragmatic Sanction, granting him extensive estates in Italy.
Year 900
Count Reginar I of Hainault rises against Zwentibold of Lotharingia and slays him near present-day Susteren.
Year 1516
The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis I of France recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.
Year 1521
After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
Year 1532
Union of Brittany and France: The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France.
Year 1536
Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).
Year 1553
Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland as a heretic.
Year 1704
War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim: English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.
Year 1779
American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Year 1792
King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
Year 1806
Battle of Mišar during the Serbian Revolution begins. The battle will end two days later, with a decisive Serbian victory over the Ottomans.
Year 1814
The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London, England.
Year 1868
The 8.5-9.0 Mw Arica earthquake struck southern Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), causing 25,000+ deaths and a destructive basin wide tsunami that affected Hawaii and New Zealand.
Year 1889
William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones." [1]
Year 1898
Spanish-American War: Spanish and American forces engage in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
Year 1906
The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.
Year 1918
Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
Year 1920
Polish-Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
Year 1942
Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
Year 1944
World War II: German troops begin the pillage and razing of Anogeia in Crete that would continue until September 5.
Year 1954
Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
Year 1961
East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West, and construction of the Berlin Wall is started.[2]
Year 1964
Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.
Year 1968
Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
Year 1969
The Apollo 11 astronauts enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City.[3] That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.[4]
Year 1977
Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.
Year 1978
One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
Year 2004
One hundred fifty-six Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
Year 2015
At least 76 people are killed and 212 others are wounded in a truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq.
Year ?
Octavian holds the first of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.