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Posted on July 12, 2017February 5, 2019

1493 – Hartmann Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published.
1543 – King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.
1562 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the sacred books of the Maya.
1580 – The Ostrog Bible, one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language, is published.
1690 – Battle of the Boyne (Gregorian calendar): The armies of William III defeat those of the former James II.
1691 – Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar): The decisive victory of William III of England’s forces in Ireland.
1776 – Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
1789 – In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming of the Bastille two days later.
1790 – The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly.
1804 – Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies a day after being shot in a duel.

 Spurred by the news of the politically unsettling dismissal of finance minister Jacques Necker, radical French journalist Camille Desmoulins leapt onto a table outside the Cafe du Foy (in the garden of the Palais Royal, frequented by political dissidents) and delivered an impassioned call to arms.

Spurred by the news of the politically unsettling dismissal of finance minister Jacques Necker, radical French journalist Camille Desmoulins leapt onto a table outside the Cafe du Foy (in the garden of the Palais Royal, frequented by political dissidents) and delivered an impassioned call to arms.

1806 – Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine.
1812 – The American Army of the Northwest briefly occupies the Upper Canadian settlement at what is now at Windsor, Ontario.
1862 – The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.
1920 – The Soviet-Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed, by which Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of Lithuania.
1948 – Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
1962 – The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at London’s Marquee Club.
1963 – Pauline Reade (16 years old) disappears in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders.
1971 – The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time.
1973 – A fire destroys the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
2006 – Lebanon-Israel war begins.
2007 – U.S. Army Apache helicopters perform airstrikes in Baghdad, Iraq; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.
2012 – A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.
2013 – Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge.

Births
1817 – Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist and pacifist (Walden Pond)
1854 – George Eastman, American inventor (Kodak camera, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company)
1904 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971)

Deaths
1892 – Alexander Cartwright, American sportsman (recognized as inventor of modern baseball)

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