This Day In History

• 767 - St Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope • 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.

• 1119 - Battle of Sarmada - Emir Ilghazi defeats French Crusaders

• 1389- Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan). • 1635 - French colony of Guadeloupe established in Caribbean

• 1651 - Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians starts.

• 1675 - Battle at Fehrbellin: Brandenburg army beats Sweden

• 1762-Russian tsarina Catherine II seizes power, declaring herself Catherine II, the sovereign ruler of Russia

• 1778 - Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey (General Washington beats Clinton)

• 1778 - Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots

• 1807 - British troops land at Ensenada, Argentina • 1820 - Tomato is proven to be non-poisonous by Colonel Robert Gibbon eating a tomato on steps of courthouse in Salem, New Jersey

• 1895 - French painter Paul Gauguin leaves France for Tahiti for the second time

• 1902- US buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million

• 1902- Germany, Italy, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire renew their Triple Alliance for six more years

• 1904-International Anti-Military Cooperation (IAMV) forms in Amsterdam

• 1919- Treaty of Versailles, ending WWI and establishing the League of Nations, is signed in France • 1936- The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.

• 1941- German & Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev

• 1941- German troops occupy Galicia, Poland • 1950- North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War • 1956-1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Ill