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World Sports Journalists Day
A selection of events from this day in history.
1214 Battle of La Roche-aux-Moines (Angers), part of King John of England attempt to reclaim Normandy from France
1505 After an encounter with a violent thunderstorm, Martin Luther declares that he will become a monk
1644 Battle of Marston Moor, North Yorkshire: Parliamentary forces under Lords Fairfax and Manchester defeat royalists led by Prince Rupert
1681 Earl of Shaftesbury arrested for high treason
1687 King James II disbands English parliament
1698 Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine
1843 An alligator falls from sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina
1863 Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)
1901 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner, Montana
1916 Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism
1928 British parliament reduces the age at women can vote to 21 - the same as men (Representation of the People Act 1928)
1937 Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear flying over the Pacific Ocean en route to Howland Island. Noonan is declared dead the following year, and Earhart is declared the year after (1939)
1941 Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)
1941 Noël Coward's "Blithe Spirit" premieres in London
1956 Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel"
1956 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1957 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
1962 Sam Walton opens his first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas
1966 1st France nuclear test on Mururoa atoll
1971 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1976 Formal reunification of North and South Vietnam
1976 US Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
1976 Ramble Inn attack: the Ulster Volunteer Force killed 6 civilians (5 Protestants, 1 Catholic) in a gun attack at a pub near Antrim; the pub was targeted because it was owned by Catholics
1990 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death after a panic in a tunnel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
1991 Donald Trump proposes to Marla Maples and gives her a 7.5 carat diamond ring
1998 "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" the second book in the series is published by Bloomsbury in the UK
2001 AbioCor self contained artificial heart created.
2002 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
2005 10 Live Aid concerts held around the world organised by Bob Geldof to raise awareness of poverty
2018 270,000 people now displaced by fighting in south-western Syria says UN since assault on rebel-held area two weeks ago
2018 British divers discover 12 boys and their coach alive in Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped for 9 days by monsoon flooding
2019 Germany's Ursula von der Leyen is the first woman nominated to lead the European Commission with France's Christine Lagarde 1st woman nominated to lead the European Central Bank