Year : 1814
Events : Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); American defeat British.
Year : 1943
Events : Benito Mussolini dismissed as premier of Italy during World War II.
Year : 1963
Events : US, Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty.
Year : 1973
Events : USSR launches Mars 5.
Year : 1987
Events : USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite.
Year : 1992
Events : 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain.
Year : 1759
Events : British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War).
Year : 1799
Events : French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat turks at Battle of Abukir.
Year : 1871
Events : Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Scheider, Davenport, Iowa.
Year : 1898
Events : 1st US trops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay.
Year : 1909
Events : France's Louis Blriot, makes 1st airplane flight across Engl and Channel.
Year : 1944
Events : 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262).
Year : 1946
Events : 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show.
Year : 1946
Events : US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion)
Year : 1983
Events : Voyager 2 encounters Saturn.
Year : 1984
Events : Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya bacame 1st woman to Walk in space.
Year : 1992
Events : Dr.Shankar Dayal Sharma sworn as the Ninth President of India.
Year : 1997
Events : K.R. Narayanan sworn in President of India
Year : 1977
Events : Mr.N.Sanjiva Reddy sworn in as sixth President of India.
Year : 1987
Events : Mr.R.Venkataraman swron in President of India.
Year : 1999
Events : Indian Sitar Maestro, Pandit Ravi Shankar is conferred the coveted International Prize for Film and Medical Music for 1999 by the Art and Exhibition Center of Germany.
Year : 1997
Events : Mrs.Rabri Devi becomes the first woman Chief Minster of Bihar.
Year : 1978
Events : Worlds first test tube baby Louie Brown born, America.
Year : 1994
Events : Israel and Jourdan agree to put an end to 40-year-old state of belligerency.
Year : 1994
Events : Silver Jubilee Anniversary of First Landing on Moon.
Year : 1997
Events : President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt selected for Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding for 1995.
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