Today:
371 BC – The Battle of Leuctra occurs, shattering Sparta’s reputation of military invincibility.
1253 – Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
1415 – Jan Hus, an early church reformer, is condemned as a heretic and burned at the stake.
1483 – Richard III and Anne Neville are crowned King and Queen of England.
1785 – The U.S. Continental Congress establishes the dollar as the official currency of the United States.
1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy bitten by a rabid dog.
1898 – The U.S. Congress annexes Hawaii.
1919 – The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago’s Comiskey Park.
1942 – Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in Amsterdam.
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