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55 B.C. - Ten thousand men of the 7th and 10th Roman legions under Julius Caesar landed in Deal in England.

1626 - In the Thirty Years War, a force of Imperialists under Count Tilly heavily defeated a force of Germans and Danes under Christian IV at the battle of Lutter am Barenberge in Germany.

1660 - In London, England, John Milton's books were burned because of the his attacks on King Charles II.

1789 - The Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted by the French National Assembly.

1813 - Napoleon with a force of 130,000 defeated a superior allied force of 200,000 Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the battle of Dresden.

1828 - Uruguay was formally proclaimed independent during preliminary talks between Brazil and Argentina.

1858 - The first cabled news dispatch was sent to, and published by, newspaper "The New York Sun". The historic story was about China's meeting of the peace demands set out by England and France.

1859 - Retired railroad conductor Edwin L. Drake struck oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania, becoming the first person to successfully drill oil from the earth. From Pennsylvania, oil production spread West to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and finally to Texas and California. Drake found the oil at a depth of 69 ft (23 m).

1883 - After several months of smaller eruptions, the Indonesian volcanic island Krakatoa (between Java and Sumatra) erupted in a cataclysmic explosion that has been considered one of the most powerful in recorded history. The island exploded with the force of 100 megatons (the Hiroshima bomb was about 20 kilotons). The eruption generated tsunami waves that reached speeds of 400 mph (640 kph).

1889 - For the first time in his career, boxer Jack Dempsey was defeated, as George LaBlanche used the pivot punch to knock him out. Later the punch was banned from boxing.

1889 - The metal clarinet was patented by Charles G. Conn of Elkhart, Indiana. OVer 100 years later, the name Conn, represents one of the most popular, especially in clarinets, musical instrument names.

1892 - Fire seriously damaged New York's original Metropolitan Opera House, located at Broadway and 39th Street.

1912 - Tarzan came to life. Writer Edgar Rice Burroughs published "Tarzan of the Apes".

1916 - Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary and Italy declared war on Germany.

1921 - J.E. Clair, owner of the Acme Packing Company, bought Green Bay, Wisconsin a pro football franchise. He wanted to honor those who packed meat at his processing plant. Hence the team's name, the Green Bay Packers.

1928 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes.

1932 - At the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio, John M. Miller, dazzled a large crowd as he executed a perfect loop-the-loop in his autogyro.

1936 - Egypt and Britain signed a treaty providing for withdrawal of British forces except in the Suez Canal area.

1938 - The New York Yankees, led by Monty Pierson had a 13-0, no-hit victory over the Cleveland Indians.

1938 - At a poetry reading by Archibald MacLeish, fellow poet Robert Frost, in a fit of jealousy, set fire to some papers to disrupt the recital.

1939 - On Victor Records, singer Allan Jones recorded "I'm Falling in Love with Someone".

1939 - The German aircraft Heinkel HE-178, the world's first jet-propelled airplane, makes its maiden flight in north Germany. The experimental plane reached a speed of 375 mph (700 kph). The engine used by the plane was designed by German physicist Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain. Von Ohain came to live to the US in 1947.

1939 - Nazi Germany demanded that the Polish corridor and Danzig be ceded to it.

1941 - In World War II, the Iranian government resigned just two days after British and Russian troops entered the country.

1945 - American troops began landing in Japan after the surrender of the Japanese government in World War II.

1946 - France and Laos concluded an agreement establishing a kingdom under French domination.

1962 - The United States launched the "Mariner Two" space probe, which flew past Venus the following December.

1967 - Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, was found dead in his London flat from an overdose of sleeping pills.

1970 - Elton John's first concert appearance in the United States was hel at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, California. Right then, a record company executive for UNI Records, a division of MCA, signed Elton to a recording contract.

1972 - United States warplanes bombed North Vietnam's major port at Haiphong for the first time.

1979 - British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion claimed by the Irish Republican Army.

1981 - While searching the wreckage of the luxury cruise ship "Andrea Doria", divers recovered two safes from the purser's office. In 1956, the "Andrea Doria" sank after a collision with the Swedish liner "Stockholm".

1984 - Greenwich Village's Menetta Lane Theatre opened. It was New York City's first new off-Broadway theatre to be built in 50 years. Helen Hayes "America's First Lady of the Stage", cut the ribbon.

1984 - On CBS-TV, a new face joined the group of journalists on "60 Minutes", when Diane Sawyer became the fifth reporter on the top-rated television show. Sawyer was welcomed by Mike Wallace, Morley Saffer, Harry Reasoner and Ed Bradley welcomed Sawyer.

1986 - Houston Astro Nolan Ryan got career win #250, leading the Astros to a 7-1 defeat of the Chicago Cubs.

1988 - Tens of thousands of civil rights marchers gathered in Washington D.C. on the eve of the 25th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

1990 - The United States State Department ordered the expulsion of 36 Iraqi diplomats.

1991 - Moldova declared its independence from the Soviet Union.

1992 - An international conference on former Yugoslavia ended in London with Bosnian Serb agreement to give up control of their heavy weapons.

1992 - The UN Security Council suspended two-and-a-half-month-old economic sanctions against Haiti to spur the country's return to democracy.

1992 - The United States government ordered federal troops to Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew.

1995 - Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed an agreement in Cairo to expand Palestinian autonomy from Gaza to the West Bank.

1997 - Israel lifted a month-long blockade of Bethlehem that was imposed after a suicide bombing July 30th that killed 16 people.

1997 - A camel at the Knowsley Safari Park on Merseyside, England was killed by lightning.

1997 - The space between a woman's breats was given a name by the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists: the intermammary sulcus.