1099- Jerusalem captured in the First Crusade.
1840- Convention of London signed between the UK, Austria, Prussia and Russia on the one hand and the Ottoman Empire on the other.
1927- Riots in Vienna, the Palace of Justice burned.
1954- Boeing / 707/ makes its first flight in Seattle.
1956- The US spacecraft “Mariner 6” sends 12 photographs of Mars.
1974- The Cyprus National Guard, led by Nikos Sampson, stages a coup against Archbishop Makarios, who fled to London.
2009- All 168 aboard believed to be dead in Iranian plane crash.
Born Today:
1606- Dutch Painter Rembrandt van Rijn.
1918- Canadian physicist Bertram Brockhouse.
Passed away:
1521- Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon.
1904- Russian writer Anton Chekhov.
1990- Elite Syrian Poet Omar Abu Risha.
R.J /H. Said