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Reason
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| Kamehameha Day
in
Hawaii
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| 1492
?
Hundred Years' War
:
Joan of Arc
's first offensive battle, the
Battle of Jargeau
, begins.
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| 1770
? The
Bysen:HMS
, carrying English
explorer
James Cook
, ran aground on the
Great Barrier Reef
, sustaining considerable damage.
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| 1892
?
The Salvation Army
's
Limelight Department
, one of the world's earliest
film studios
, was officially established in
Melbourne
, Australia.
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| 1937
?
Marshal
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
and several senior officers of the Soviet
Red Army
were
convicted
for belonging to a
Trotskyist
organization in a
secret trial
during the
Great Purge
.
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| 1938
? The
Battle of Wuhan
began, lasting four and a half months, the longest and largest battle of the entire
Second Sino-Japanese War
.
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| 1972
? An excursion train
derailed
on a sharp curve at
Eltham Well Hall station
in
Eltham
,
London
, killing 6 people and injuring 126 others.
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| 1978
? A group of
Urdu
-speaking students led by
Altaf Hussain
founded the
All Pakistan Muttahidda Students Organization
political student organisation, a forerunner to the
Muttahida Qaumi Movement
, at the
University of Karachi
.
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| 2008
?
Canadian Prime Minister
Stephen Harper
apologised to the
First Nations
for past governments'
policies of forced assimilation
.
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- 1345
? Inspecting a new prison without being escorted by his bodyguard,
Alexios Apokaukos
,
megas doux
of the
Byzantine Navy
, was lynched and killed by the prisoners.
- 1776
? The
Second Continental Congress
appointed
Thomas Jefferson
,
John Adams
,
Benjamin Franklin
,
Roger Sherman
, and
Robert R. Livingston
to the
Committee of Five
to draft a declaration of independence for Britain's
Thirteen Colonies
.
- 1594
? In the
Philippines
,
Philip?II of Spain
recognized the right to govern of the
Principalia
, the local nobles and chieftains who had converted to
Roman Catholicism
.
- 1917
?
Alexander
was crowned
King of Greece
, succeeding his father
Constantine
, who had abdicated.
- 1920
? During their
national convention
in
Chicago
,
U.S. Republican Party
leaders gathered in a room at the
Blackstone Hotel
to come to a consensus on their candidate for the
U.S. presidential election
, leading the
Associated Press
to first coin the political phrase "
smoke-filled room
".
- 1955
? More than 80 people were killed after
Pierre Levegh
and
Lance Macklin
collided
during the
23rd running
of the
24 Hours of Le Mans
sports car
endurance race
.
- 1962
? American criminals
Clarence Anglin
,
John Anglin
and
Frank Morris
escaped
from
Alcatraz Island
, one of the United States' most famous prisons.
- 1963
?
Thich Quang Duc
Fietnamisc munuc
gebærnet him oþ d?aþ
in
Saigon
to protest the persecution of
Buddhists
be þæm l?odwearde þærof wæs
Ngo Dinh Diem
S?þfietnamisc Foresittend
.
- 2007
?
Mudslides
caused by heavy
monsoon
rainfall killed 130 people in
Chittagong
, Bangladesh.
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