1190: Third Crusade: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowns while crossing the Saleph River (modern Turkey) leading an army to Jerusalem
1786: A landslide dam on the Dadu River caused by earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China
1898: US Marines land in Cuba during the Spanish–American War
1916:Great Arab Revolt begins against ruling Ottoman turks
1963: US Equal Pay Act signed into law by President John F. Kennedy
1977: Apple Computer ships its first Apple II computers
2003: The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission
Source: Οnthisday.com
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