1863 - Start of the Battle of Gettysburg, part of the U.S. Civil War.
1898 - The Battle of San Juan Hill, part of the Spanish-American War, was fought by Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt and the Rough Riders.
1945 - The Tapel Massacre took place in the Philippines.
1962 - Burundi became independent.
1962 - Rwanda became independent.
1997 - Great Britain returned Hong Kong to China.

1890 - The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed by the U.S. Congress.
1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.

1608 - The city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1890 - Idaho became a state.
1962 - Algeria became independent.

1776 - The American Declaration of Independence, written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, was signed.
1939 - Lou Gehrig gave his famous farewell speech at Yankee Stadium.
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1811 - Venezuela declared its independence from Spain.
1865 - The Salvation Army was started by William Booth in London, England.
1996 - Dolly, the first cloned sheep, was born.

1535 - Sir (Saint) Thomas More was beheaded.

1898 - Hawaii was annexed by the United States.
2005 - Subway and bus terrorist bombings took place in London.

1777 - Vermont abolished slavery.

1816 - Argentina declared its independence from Spain.
1896 - The famous "Cross of Gold" speech was given by William Jennings Bryan at the Democratic National Convention.
2011 - The African country of South Sudan officially came into existence.

1890 - Wyoming became a U.S. state.
1940 - Start of the Battle of Britain.

1533 - Henry VIII of England was excommunicated by Pope Clement VII.

1543 - Henry VIII married Catherine Parr (his sixth and final wife, who survived him).
1690 - Ireland's Battle of the Boyne, in which Catholic James II was defeated by Protestant William of Orange.

1793 - Charlotte Corday stabbed Jean-Paul Marat to death in his bathtub.
1863 - Start of the draft riots in New York City.

1789 - French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille in Paris.
1933 - The Nazis banned all other political parties in Germany.

1918 - Start of the Second Battle of the Marne (World War I).

1918 - The Bolsheviks executed Nicholas II and his family.

1821 - Florida was ceded to the United States by Spain.
1898 - End of the Spanish-American War.

64 C.E. - Start of a fire which would burn the larger part of ancient Rome.
1936- Start of the Spanish Civil War.

1848 - Seneca Falls Convention.
1870 - Start of the Franco-Prussian War.
1993 - U.S. Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy was declared by President William "Bill" Clinton.

1810 - Colombia declared its independence from Spain.
1969 - Neil Armstrong's historic moonwalk.

1970 - Egypt opened the Aswan High Dam.

1934 - John Dillinger was killed outside of the Biograph Theater in Chicago, Illinois.

1995 - Discovery of the Hale-Bopp Comet.

2005 - Seventh win for Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France.

1952 - Puerto Rico became a United States Commonwealth.

1847 - Liberia became a republic.
1952 - Death of Eva "Evita" Peron in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1214 - A decisive French victory at the Battle of Bouvines ended the Angevin-Flanders War of 1202-1214 (also known as the Anglo-French War).
1953 - Armistice ended the Korean War

1540 - Execution of Thomas Cromwell.
1540 - Henry VIII married Catherine Howard (fifth of his six wives, later beheaded).
1794 - Maximilien Robespierre guillotined in Paris.
1868 - Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment.

1890 - Suicide of Vincent van Gogh.
1981 - Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer,

1965 - Medicare signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson.
1975 - James "Jimmy" Hoffa reported missing.

1498 - Christopher Columbus landed in what is now known as Trinidad.