#onthisday 1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege. 1149 – The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem. 1741 – Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.. 1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.. 1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleons Egyptian Campaign.. 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.. 1834 – The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years of terror.. 1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.. 1870 – Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.. 1870 – Ruperts Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudsons Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.. 1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.. 1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimers disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.. 1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).. 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.. 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.. 1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.. 1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek Junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup détat, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.. 1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.. 1997 – In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.. 2002 – American Taliban John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.. 2002 – Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.. 2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day. 2006 – Twitter is launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world..
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