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1346 - A small English army of 10,000 under Edward III defeated Philip VI's superior French forces in the battle of Crecy. It was the first battle at which the English used only infantry and longbowmen.

1498 - Michelangelo, master artist, was commissioned to make the "Pieta".

1541 - Suleiman I of Turkey captured Buda and annexed Hungary after his dispute with Archduke Ferdinand over claims to the kingdom.

1813 - After an initial victory, the French under Marshal Macdonald were beaten by the Prussians under Gen. Bluecher at the battle of Katzbach.

1842 - Set to begin on July 1, 1842, the United States Congress established the fiscal year.

1847 - Liberia was proclaimed as an independent republic.

1858 - The Treaty of Edo was signed which provided for the opening up of Japan to British trade and set up British residency.

1873 - The St. Louis, Missouri school board established the first public school kindergarten in the United States.

1883 - When the volcanic island Krakatoa, part of Indonesia, erupted, it was the world’s largest explosion, audible from three thousand miles away. The eruption spewed five cubic miles of earth into the air to a height of fifty miles, and created tidal waves up to 120 feet high. The catastrophe killed 36,000 people and caused oceanic and atmospheric changes over a period of many years.

1896 - Armenian revolutionaries attacked the Ottoman Bank in Constantinople, provoking a three-day battle in which at least 6,000 Armenians died.

1896 - In the Philippines, an insurrection began against the Spanish government.

1914 - In World War I, the Russians under Renenkampf and Samsonov were heavily out-maneuvered by the Germans under Hindenburg and Ludendorff at the battle of Tannenberg. Over 30,000 Russians were killed.

1918 - In New York City, Frank Bacon starred, as "Lightnin" at the Gaiety Theatre. It was the first play to for over 1,000 performances.

1920 - The United States ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. This amendment prohibits voting booth discrimination on the basis of sex; allowing women in the United States to vote. In 1973, Congresswoman Bella Abzug presented Congress with a bill designating this day as Women’s Equality Day. The President issued a proclamation, and in 1974 it became Public Law #93-382.

1934 - Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over the Saar region to Germany.

1939 - The NBC Symphony was heard for the very first time courtesy of the radio program, "Arch Oboler’s Plays". The music served as a backdrop for the drama, "This Lonely Heart".

1939 - On New York's WXBS, Red Barber announced the first televised baseball games. Playing a double header that day were the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.

1944 - In World War II, Bulgaria announced that it had withdrawn from the war and that German troops were to be disarmed.

1945 - The Japanese were given surrender instruction on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II.

1947 - Don Bankhead became Major League Baseball's first black pitcher. In his first time at bat, the Brooklyn Dodger pitcher helped his cause by hitting a home run.

1950 - "Gorgeous Gussie" (Gertrude) Moran was signed to Bobby Riggs pro tennis troupe for a $75,000 mininum salary a year.

1957 - Out rolled the first Edsel automobile by the Ford Motor Company. There were 110,847 of the cars built before Ford stopped producing them due to lack of sales. The car was named for company founder’s son, Edsel Bryant Ford.

1957 - It was announced that an intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully tested by the Soviet Union.

1961 - In Toronto, Canada, the NHL Hockey Hall of Fame opened.

1970 - In New York City, Jimi Hendrix opened his recording studio. It attracted many of the top rock musicians of the day because of its state-of-the-art, 36-track recording capability.

1973 - An article about the Philadelphia Phillies was David Eisenhower's final sports column for the "Philadelphia Bulletin" newspaper.

1976 - Prince Bernhard, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, agreed to resign his positions with the Dutch armed forces and industry following severe criticism of his behavior by a commission of inquiry into a Lockheed bribery scandal.

1978 - Sigmund Jahn became the first German in space when he blasted off aboard Russia's Soyuz 31.

1978 - Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected as Pope John Paul I. He served only 33 days before dying of a heart attack on Sept. 28.

1981 - Steve Ovett recaptured the mile-run record Sebastian Coe took from him a week earlier. The new world record Ovett set was 3:48.40.

1982 - As the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Kansas City Royals 10-3, Rickey Henderson tied Lou Brock’s 1974 record for 118 stolen bases in one season.

1982 - The Argentine government lifted a ban on political parties.

1984 - Nine-year old gelding John Henry, came from behind to win the $600,000 Arlington Million race in suburban Chicago, Illinois. His lifetime earnings reached $5,482,797.

1987 - The Fuller Brush Company announced it would open two retail stores in Dallas, Texas, a first for the company that for 81 years had sold its products door to door.

1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised that national elections would be held.

1992 - A mistrial was declared in the Iran-Contra cover-up trial of accused CIA spy Clair George.

1992 - A "no-fly zone" was imposed on the southern third of Iraq. The move by the United States, France and Britain was aimed at protecting Iraqi Shiite Muslims.

1993 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a friendship treaty with the Czech Republic after condemning the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.

1996 - Robert Vesco, a United States financier, was convicted in a Cuban court of economic crimes.

1996 - Chun Doo-hwan, the former military leader of South Korea, was sentenced to death.