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371 BC – The Battle of Leuctra , where Epaminondas defeated Cleombrotus I , takes place
640 – Battle of Heliopolis : The Muslim Arab army under 'Amr ibn al-'As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt ).
1044 – The Battle of Ménfő between troops led by Emperor Henry III and Magyar forces led by Samuel Aba, King of Hungary , takes place.
1189 – Richard I "the Lionheart" accedes to the English throne.
1253 – Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania .
1348 – Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death .
1411 – Ming China 's Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presents the Sinhalese king, captured during the Ming–Kotte War , to the Yongle Emperor .
1415 – Jan Hus is condemned as a heretic and then burned at the stake.
1438 – A temporary compromise between the rebellious Transylvanian peasants and the noblemen is signed in Kolozsmonostor Abbey .
1483 – Richard III is crowned King of England.
1484 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River .
1495 – First Italian War : Battle of Fornovo : Charles VIII defeats the Holy League .
1535 – Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England .
1557 – King Philip II of Spain , consort of Queen Mary I of England , sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually resulted in the loss of the City of Calais , the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again.
1560 – The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.
1573 – Córdoba, Argentina , is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera .
1573 – French Wars of Religion : Siege of La Rochelle ends.
1614 – Żejtun and the surrounding villages suffer a raid from Ottoman forces. This was the last unsuccessful attempt by the Ottomans to conquer the island of Malta .
1630 – Thirty Years' War : Four thousand Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania , Germany.
1685 – Battle of Sedgemoor : Last battle of the Monmouth Rebellion . troops of King James II defeat troops of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth .
1751 – Pope Benedict XIV suppresses the Patriarchate of Aquileia and establishes from its territory the Archdiocese of Udine and Gorizia .
1777 – American Revolutionary War : Siege of Fort Ticonderoga : After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne , American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga , New York.
1779 – Battle of Grenada : The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War .
1801 – First Battle of Algeciras : Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras .
1809 – The second day of the Battle of Wagram ; France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars.
1854 – In Jackson, Michigan , the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held.
1865 – The first issue of The Nation magazine is published.
1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister , a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
1887 – David Kalākaua , monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii , is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution , which transfers much of the king's authority to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii .
1892 – Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike , leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
1917 – World War I : Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt .
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 . The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
1936 – A major breach of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet (61 m) into the River Irwell .
1937 – Spanish Civil War : Battle of Brunete : The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
1939 – Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany closes the last remaining Jewish enterprises.
1940 – Story Bridge , a major landmark in Brisbane , as well as Australia's longest cantilever bridge is formally opened.
1941 – The German army launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk .
1942 – Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe " above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
1944 – Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial .
1944 – The Hartford circus fire , one of America's worst fire disasters , kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut .
1947 – The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union .
1957 – Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships , becoming the first black athlete to do so.
1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
1962 – As a part of Operation Plowshare , the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
1962 – The Late Late Show , the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time.
1964 – Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
1966 – Malawi becomes a republic , with Hastings Banda as its first President .
1967 – Nigerian Civil War : Nigerian forces invade Biafra , beginning the war.
1975 – The Comoros declares independence from France.
1986 – Davis Phinney becomes the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France .
1988 – The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
1989 – The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack : Sixteen bus passengers are killed when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad took control of the bus and drove it over a cliff.
1990 – The Electronic Frontier Foundation is founded.
1995 – In the Bosnian War , under the command of General Ratko Mladić , Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica .
1997 – The Troubles : In response to the Drumcree dispute , five days of mass protests, riots and gun battles begin in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland .
1998 – Hong Kong International Airport opens in Chek Lap Kok , Hong Kong , replacing Kai Tak Airport as the city's international airport.
2003 – The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2 ) to five stars: Hip 4872 , HD 245409 , 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively.
2006 – The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War , re-opens for trade after 44 years.
2013 – At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State , Nigeria .
2013 – A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport , killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.
2013 – A 73-car oil train derails in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying more than 30 buildings in the town's central area.
Some charts to look at:
XJO:
XXJ:
Do you see the XXJ graph lags the XJO graph by approximately 2 months ? Will XXJ follow XJO pattern which will then rocket XJO to the moon ? But during the similar period, XJO cut through the resistance like butter and made 100% retracement. XXJ seems to stall around the current level for a week now.
XXM:
XXM seems to break down from its pennant. Looks like more pain to come for this sector ?