1314: Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce won over Edward II of England at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland.
1340: The English fleet defeated the French fleet at Sluys, off the Flemish coast.
1497: Italian explorer John Cabot, sailing in the service of England, landed in North America on what is now Newfoundland.
1509: Henry VIII was crowned King of England.
1664: New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, was founded.
1675: King Philip's War began when Indians massacre colonists at Swansee, Plymouth colony.
1793: The first republican constitution in France was adopted.
1812: Napoleon crossed the Nieman River and invaded Russia.
1844: Charles Goodyear was granted U.S. patent #3,633 for vulcanized rubber.
1859: At the Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle of the Three Sovereigns, the French army led by Napoleon III defeated the Austrian army under Franz Joseph I in northern Italy.
1861: Federal gunboats attacked Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia.
1862: U.S. intervention saved the British and French at the Dagu forts in China.
1869: Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant officially became the Vodoo Queen in San Francisco, CA.
1896: Booker T. Washington became the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Howard University.
1910: The Japanese army invaded Korea.
1913: Greece and Serbia annulled their alliance with Bulgaria following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace.
1922: The American Professional Football Association took the name of The National Football League.
1931: The Soviet Union and Afghanistan signed a treaty of neutrality.
1940: France signed an armistice with Italy.
1940: TV cameras were used for the first time in a political convention as the Republicans convened in Philadelphia, PA.
1941: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support to the Soviet Union.
1947: Kenneth Arnold reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington.
1948: The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade.
1953: John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announced their engagement.
1955: Soviet MIG's down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait.
1962: The New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers, 9-7, after 22 innings.
1964: The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965, cigarette manufactures would be required to include warnings on their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking.
1968: "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.
1970: The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
1970: The movie "Myra Breckinridge" premiered.
1971: The National Basketball Association modified its four-year eligibility rule to allow for collegiate hardship cases.
1975: 113 people were killed when an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1985: Natalia Solzhenitsyn the wife of exiled, Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, became a U.S. citizen.
1997: 18-year-old Melissa Drexler was charged with murder in the death of her baby. Drexler had given birth during her prom.
1997: The U.S. Air Force released a report on the "Roswell Incident," suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.
1998: AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable TV giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
1998: Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 600-millionth guest.
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2002: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, must make the decision to give a convicted killer the death penalty.
2002: A painting from Monet's Waterlilies series sold for $20.2 million.
2003: In Paris, France, manuscripts by novelist Georges Simenon brought in $325,579. The original manuscript of "La Mort de Belle" raised $81,705.
