810 – Pepin, son of Charlemagne, King of Italy, dies (birth date unknown)
1099 – First Crusade: Fifteen thousand starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
1579 – Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
1730 – An estimated magnitude 8.7 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages more than 1,000 km (620 mi) of Chile’s coastline.
1775 – The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
1776 – Col John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Declaration of Independence (Philadelphia)
1777 – Vermont introduces new constitution making it 1st US state to abolish slavery
1796 – US State Department issues 1st US passport
1797 – 1st US senator (William Blount of Tennessee) expelled by impeachment
1808 – Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.
1822 – Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
1822 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns (or was murdered) at 29
1831 – John Pemberton, American chemist and pharmacist, invented Coca-Cola (d. 1888) was born.
1838 – Eli Lilly, American industrialist, soldier, and pharmaceutical chemist (d. 1898) was born.
1839 – John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company (d. 1937) was birthed.
1853 – U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Edo bay with a treaty requesting trade.
1870 – Governor Holden of North Carolina declares Casswell County to be in a state of insurrection
1874 – The Mounties begin their March West.
1876 – White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina.
1879 – Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
1892 – St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
1905 – The soldiers of the Russian battleship “Potemkin” who mutinied, surrender to Rumanian authorities, who turn ship over to Russian authorities soon after
1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies’ on NY Theater roof
1907 – George W. Romney, American businessman and politician, 43rd Governor of Michigan (d. 1995) was birthed in Mexico.
1908 – Nelson Rockefeller, American businessman and politician, 41st Vice President of the United States (d. 1979) was birthed.
1908 – Louis Jordan, Ark, alto saxman (Caldonia) Born
1908 – Uprisings spread throughout Turkey
1914 – Billy Eckstine, jazz singer (Tenderly, A Fool in Love), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1932 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
1942 – Chuck Negron, Bronx NY, rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World) Born
1944 – Jai Johanny Johanson, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band) was born.
1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
1947 – Demolition begins for UN HQ in NYC
1948 – The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
1949 – Wolfgang Puck, Austrian chef and actor was born.
1951 – Anjelica Huston, actress (Prizzi’s Honor, Grifters, Alien, Addams family) Daughter of director John Huston, born in Los Angeles, California
1951 – Greg T Walker, rock bassist (Blackfoot) Born
1952 – Jack Lambert, American football player (Steelers), Born
1957 – CDC incorporates
1957 – Carlos Cavazo, Mexican-American guitarist and songwriter (Quiet Riot and Ratt) was born.
1960 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
1961 – Andy Fletcher, rocker (Depeche Mode-Just Can’t Get Enough) Born
1962 – Joan Osborne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Dead and Trigger Hippy) was born.
1962 – Georges Bataille, French writer and philosopher (Story of the Eye) (b. 1897) Dies
1962 – Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement.
1963 – US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba
1968 – The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.
1968 – Michael Weatherly, American actor, director, and screenwriter was born.
1970 – Beck, American singer-songwriter and producer was born.
1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
1971 – During street disturbances, British soldiers shoot dead two Catholic civilians in Free Derry; as a result, riots erupted in the city and the Social Democratic and Labour Party withdraws from Stormont in protest
1971 – Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1920) Dies
1975 – Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated
1977 – Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs)
1982 – Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
1985 – Jamie Cook, British musician (Arctic Monkeys) Born
1988 – Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992
1994 – Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
1994 – Dick Sargent, American actor (Darren, Bewitched) (b. 1930) dies of cancer.
1996 – Amschel Rothschild, banker, dies (Suicided) at 41
On July 8 1996 he was found dead in the bathroom of his suite at the Bristol Hotel in Paris. According to the official story, he had committed suicide by hanging himself with the belt of his bathrobe. Thanks to the now defunct “The Spotlight” we have the truth: – See more at: The Rothschild They Murdered
1997 – NATO invites Poland, Hungary & Czech Republic to join
1998 – Jaden Smith, American actor and rapper was born.
2006 – June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917) Dies
2011 – Betty Ford, American wife of Gerald Ford, 40th First Lady of the United States (b. 1918) died.
2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
2012 – Tens of thousands protest over election corruption in Mexico City after Enrique Pe
2012 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor (Ice station Zebra, Marty), dies from renal failure at 95
2013 – 42 people have been killed and hundreds injured after the Egyptian army raids a sit in protest in Cairo
2014 – Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amidst rising tensions following the Alleged killing of Israeli teenagers. ( Israeli PM Binjamin Netanyahu instructs his defence forces to “take their gloves off” against Hamas and to take any means necessary to “restore peace” to Israeli citizens)