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Año 1179
The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
Año 1269
King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
Año 1306
The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
Año 1586
English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
Año 1800
War of the Second Coalition Battle of Höchstädt results in a French victory over Austria.
Año 1816
Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Año 1821
Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).
Año 1846
The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.
Año 1862
The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
Año 1865
Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
Año 1867
Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
Año 1903
Benito Mussolini, then a radical Socialist, arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
Año 1934
The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Año 1943
The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.
Año 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
Año 1965
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
Año 1978
Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
Año 1982
In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
Año 1985
Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
Año 1987
Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
Año 1990
The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
Año 1990
The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
Año 2007
The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.
Año 2009
Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
Año 2009
War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Año 2012
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.