In 1099, the First Crusade began besieging Jerusalem, which was captured the following month.
In 1654, King Louis XIV, age 15, was crowned in Rheims, 11 years after the start of his reign.
In 1769, frontiersman Daniel Boone first began to explore present day Kentucky.
In 1892, Homer Plessy, a “Creole of color,” was arrested for refusing to leave a whites-only car of the East Louisiana Railroad. (Ruling on his case, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld “ separate but equal” racial segregation, a concept it renounced in 1954.)
In 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.
In 1948, the Communists completed their takeover of Czechoslovakia with the resignation of President Edvard Benes.
In 1958, singer- songwriter Prince was born Prince Rogers Nelson in Minneapolis.
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