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is the 192nd day (193rd in leap years) of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 173 days remaining.
Events
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1302 -
Battle of the Golden Spurs (
Guldensporenslag in
Dutch) - a coalition around the
Flemish cities defeats the king of
France's huge knightly army.
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1346 -
Charles IV of
Luxembourg elected emperor of the
Holy Roman Empire.
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1405 -
Chinese fleet commander
Zheng He set sail to explore the world for the first time.
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1576 -
Martin Frobisher sights
Greenland.
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1616 -
Samuel de Champlain returns to
Quebec.
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1735 - Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that
Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before
1979.
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1740 -
Pogrom:
Jews are expelled from
Little Russia.
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1750 -
Halifax, Nova Scotia almost completely destroyed by fire.
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1776 - Captain
James Cook begins third voyage.
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1789 -
Jacques Necker dismissed as Finance Minister for France sparking the storming of the
Bastille.
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1796 - The
U.S. takes possession of
Detroit from
Great Britain under terms of the
Jay Treaty.
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1798
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