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Events [edit] Pre-1600 [edit] 363 – Jovian is proclaimed Roman emperor following the death of emperor Julian in the previous night.[1] 678 – Pope Agatho is consecrated following the death of pope Donus two months prior.[2] 1499 – Amerigo Vespucci sights what is now Amapá State in Brazil.[3] 1556 – The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs. 1601–1900 [edit] 1743 – In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle. 1760 – Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina. 1806 – British forces take Buenos Aires during the first of the British invasions of the River Plate. 1844 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail. 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta campaign. 1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives. 1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia. 1901–present [edit] 1905 – During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin. 1914 – The Illinois Monument is dedicated at Cheatham Hill in what is now the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.[4] 1924 – The Johor–Singapore Causeway opens after five years of construction, providing a land connection for road and rail vehicles travelling between Johor and Singapore.[5][6] 1927 – Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference. 1928 – The Rovaniemi township decree is promulgated, as a result of which Rovaniemi secedes from the old rural municipality as its own market town on January 1, 1929.[7] 1941 – Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews. 1941 – World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa. 1944 – World War II: Mogaung is the first place in Burma to be liberated from the Japanese by British Chindits, supported by the Chinese.[8] 1946 – In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship. 1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War. 1954 – The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow. 1954 – The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game. 1957 – Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana. 1973 – The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship. 1974 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union. 1976 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PFLP and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda. 1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti. 1977 – Constitution for the Federation of Earth was adopted by the second session of the World Constituent Assembly, held at Innsbruck, Austria.[9][10][11] 1980 – The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board. 1981 – The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong. 1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4. 1988 – The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people. 1988 – Villa Tunari massacre: Bolivian anti-narcotics police kill nine to 12 and injure over a hundred protesting coca-growing peasants.[12][13][14][15] 1991 – Two days after it had declared independence, Slovenia is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War. 1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured. 1995 – Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-71, the first space shuttle mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir.[16] 2007 – Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. Chancellor Gordon Brown succeeds him. 2007 – The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre. 2008 – In a highly scrutinized election, President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters. 2013 – NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph space probe to observe the Sun. 2014 – At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India. 2015 – Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199 critically. 2017 – A series of powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware target websites of Ukrainian organizations and counterparts with Ukrainian connections around the globe. 2024 – U.S. President Joe Biden debates former U.S. President Donald Trump. Biden's perceived poor performance leads to his withdrawal from the election on July 21.[17] Births [edit] Pre-1600 [edit] 850 – Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya, Aghlabid emir (died 902) 1350 – Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (died 1425) 1430 – Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Lancastrian leader (died 1475) 1462 – Louis XII, king of France (died 1515)[18] 1464 – Ernst II of Saxony, Archbishop of Magdeburg (1476–1513) (died 1513) 1497 – Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1546) 1550 – Charles IX, king of France (died 1574) 1596 – Maximilian, Prince of Dietrichstein (died 1655) 1601–1900 [edit] 1696 – William Pepperrell, American merchant and soldier (died 1759) 1717 – Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist and physicist (died 1799) 1767 – Alexis Bouvard, French astronomer and academic (died 1843) 1805 – Napoléon Coste, French guitarist and composer (died 1883) 1806 – Augustus De Morgan, English mathematician and logician (died 1871) 1812 – Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterston, American writer (died 1899)[19] 1817 – Louise von François, German author (died 1893) 1828 – Bryan O'Loghlen, Irish-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Victoria (died 1905) 1838 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (died 1894) 1838 – Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, designed the Gewehr 98 (died 1914) 1846 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Ir…