1533: England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.
1774: The First Continental Congress convened in Virginia.
1805: Napoleon was crowned in Milan, Italy.
1863: The first black regiment left Boston to fight in the U.S. Civil War.
1892: The Sierra club was organized in San Francisco, CA.
1900: Britain annexed the Orange Free State.
1908: Ian Fleming, who created the character James Bond, was born.
1918: Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, declared independence.
1926: Portuguese General da Costa took over in a coup.
1928: Chrysler Corporation merged with Dodge Brothers, Inc.
1929: Warner Brothers debuted "On With The Show" in New York City. It was the first all-color-talking picture.
1934: The Dionne quintuplets were born near Callender, Ontario, to Olivia and Elzire Dionne. The babies were the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
1937: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington, DC, signaling that vehicular traffic could cross the newly opened Golden Gate Bridge in California.
1940: During World War II, Belgium surrendered to Germany.
1953: The Walt Disney film "Melody" premiered in the Paramount Theatre in Hollywood. The picture was the first 3-D cartoon.
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1957: National League club owners voted to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers to move to Los Angeles and that the New York Giants could move to San Francisco.
1961: Amnesty International, a human rights organization, was founded.
1976: The Peaceful Nuclear Explosion Treaty was signed, limiting any nuclear explosion: regardless of its purpose: to a yield of 150 kilotons.
1977: Fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, KY. 165 people were killed.
1985: The first issue of "Vanity Fair" magazine went on sale. The issue had a picture of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy smooching on the cover.
1985: David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers. He was freed 17 months later.
1987: Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses. He was released August 3, 1988.
1995: An earthquake in the Russian town Neftegorsk killed at least 2000 people. It had a magnitude of 7.5.
1996: U.S. President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal were convicted of fraud.
1998: Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts. The U.S., Japan and other nations imposed economic sanctions. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said "Today, we have settled the score with India."
1998: Dr. Susan Terebey discoved a planet outside of our solar system with the use of photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
1998: Phil Hartman was shot to death at his home by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself.
1999: In Milan, Italy, Leonardo de Vinci's "The Last Supper" was put back on display after 22 years of restoration work.
2002: Russia became a limited partner in NATO with the creation of the NATO-Russia Council.
