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1919 – The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.1906 – Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.1899 – Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon.1893 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.

1882 – The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War.1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.1848 – Waterloo railway station in London opens.The book transformed the sport and went to many editions. 1836 – The Fly-fisher's Entomology is published by Alfred Ronalds.1833 – Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.1804 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history. 1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery.1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.1796 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.1789 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.1735 – Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.1616 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.1576 – While exploring the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, Martin Frobisher sights Greenland, mistaking it for the hypothesized (but non-existent) island of "Frisland".1476 – Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.1410 – Ottoman Interregnum: Süleyman Çelebi defeats his brother Musa Çelebi outside the Ottoman capital, Edirne.1405 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.1346 – Charles IV, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, is elected King of the Romans.

1302 – Battle of the Golden Spurs ( Guldensporenslag in Dutch): A coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's royal army.1174 – Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.911 – Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the name Athanasius).472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St.
