1327 - King Alfonso IV of Aragon crowned 1355 - English invasion army under king Edward lands at Calais 1418 - Utrecht conquerors Ijsselstein 1642 - 2nd battle at Breitenfeld Saksen: Sweden beat Ferdinand III 1648 - 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia1712 - Suriname government gives French hijacker Jacques Cassard, ƒ682,800 1722 - Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland 1749 - English Ohio Trade Company forms 1st trade post 1772 - Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms 1835 - 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola 1841 - Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan 1851 - Louis Napoleon takes power in France 1852 - Franklin Pierce elected as president of US 1854 - Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts 1892 - French poet Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands 1895 - 29th Belmont: Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 2:11½ 1898 - French government-Dupuy forms 1898 - Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem 1914 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire. 1915 - 1st US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio 1916 - Ft Vaux, Verdun, reconquered by France 1917 - 1st US soldiers killed in combat in WW I 1917 - Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine 1944 - Canadian troops occupy Knokke 1944 - US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Schmidt Hurtgenwald 1947 - 7th Ryder Cup: US wins 11-1 at Portland Golf Club (Portland, Oregon, US) 1947 - Howard Hughes Spruce Goose flies for 1st (& last) time 33rd US President Harry Truman33rd US President Harry Truman 1948 - Pres Harry Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey 1960 - Roger Maris nips Mickey Mantle as AL MVP, 225-222 1961 - Kean opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 92 performances 1961 - Max Frisch Andorra, premieres in Zurich 1963 - Tambourines to Glory opens at Little Theater NYC for 24 performances 1963 - Only 1st-class cricket game played in Uganda, MCC v E African XI 1964 - CBS purchases 80% of Yanks for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20%
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