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Year 841
In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
Year 1530
At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
Year 1658
Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
Year 1678
Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
Year 1786
Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
Year 1876
Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
Year 1900
The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
Year 1906
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
Year 1910
The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
Year 1910
Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
Year 1923
Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane
Year 1943
The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
Year 1944
World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries, begins.
Year 1944
World War II: United States Navy and British Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
Year 1944
The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
Year 1947
The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
Year 1960
Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
Year 1976
Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Year 1978
The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
Year 1981
Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
Year 1998
In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.