Following are some of the major events to have occurred on July 14
1430: Joan of Arc, taken prisoner by the Burgundians in May, is handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais.
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1906 - French artillery officer Alfred Dreyfus, who was falsely accused of treason, was finally pardoned and restored to his rank and regiment.
1920 - The Panama Canal was formally opened, six yea
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1940 - The Battle of Britain began in World War Two when at least 70 German bombers attacked docks in south Wales.
1943 - Allied invasion of Sicily in World War Two.
1985 - One Greenpeace crew
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1935 - The French army officer Alfred Dreyfus died. Dreyfus, who was Jewish, was convicted on a false charge of treason in 1894 and his case became the centre of a controversy that divided French soc
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1900 - Commonwealth of Australia founded.
1932 - King Camp Gillette, U.S. inventor and manufacturer of the safety razor, died.
1993 - British scientists using genetic fingerprinting identified
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1937 - Non-aggression treaty signed between Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq and Turkey.
1943 - Jean Moulin, hero of the French resistance, died. Known as "Max", he coordinated resistance in occu
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1898 - U.S. annexation of Hawaii.
1930 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author and creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, died.
1981 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O&
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1919 - The first airship to cross the Atlantic, the British R-34, arrived in New York.
1942 - Diarist Anne Frank and her family took refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam.
1962 - William Faulkner,
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1945 - U.S. General Douglas MacArthur announced the liberation of the whole of the Philippines in World War Two.
1945 - John Curtin, prime minister of Australia during most of World War Two, died.
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1945 - U.S. General Douglas MacArthur announced the liberation of the whole of the Philippines in World War Two.
1945 - John Curtin, prime minister of Australia during most of World War Two, died.
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1918 - New Sultan of Turkey proclaimed at Constantinople.
1934 - Marie Curie, Polish-French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, died.
1943 - Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish statesman and prime ministe
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1904 - Theodor Herzl, Hungarian-born Zionist leader, died. In 1897 he became first president of the World Zionist Organisation.
1928 - John Logie Baird transmitted the world's first colour tel
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1915 - Porfirio Diaz, Mexican soldier and president from 1877-1911, died in Paris.
1937 - Amelia Earhart and co-pilot Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific while trying to fly around the world.
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1916 - British and French forces launched the Somme Offensive in World War One.
1917 - 50th anniversary of Confederation of Canada.
1942 - Sevastopol in Crimea fell to German forces after an ei
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Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 26:
1945 - The United Nations Charter was signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, creating a successor to the League of Nations
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Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 25:
1950 - North Korea invaded South Korea, heralding the beginning of the Korean War.
1975 - Mozambique became independent and S
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Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 24:
1901 - The first exhibition by the 19-year-old painter Pablo Picasso opened in Paris to critical acclaim.
1908 - Grover Cleve
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Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 19:
1937 - The Scottish dramatist and novelist J.M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan, died.
1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were ex
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Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 18:
1928 - The Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen was lost in flight over the Arctic Ocean.
1953 - Egypt was proclaimed a republic