1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army occupy Carlisle during its invasion of England.
1902 Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names the teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt.
1916 British General Douglas Haig finally calls off the 1st Battle of the Somme in World War I after more than 1 million soldiers had been killed or wounded.
1918 Belgian troops re-enter Brussels, lost to the German invaders on 20 August 1914
1939 The Irish Republican Army explodes three bombs in Piccadilly Circus.
1943 U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.
1966 US Roman Catholic bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays.
1971 A British soldier is shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast.
1983 Argentina announces its ability to produce enriched uranium for nuclear weapons.
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