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The Everlasting League formed and became the basis of Swiss Confederation. The people of the 3 small cantons (Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden) formed a co-operative pact called the Bundesbrief following the death of Habsburg Emp. Rudolf I.
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The crusaders under Peter the Hermit reached Constantinople. Anna Comnena, a 13 year-old Christian in Constantinople, watched as the crusaders marched into the city.
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English barons submitted to William the Conqueror.
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The Aghlabid rulers of Ifriqiyah (modern day Tunisia) captured Taormina, Sicily.
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Peace of Koblenz involved Charles the Bare, Louis the German & Lotharius II.
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Justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), died.
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1998 –
Khamani Griffin, American actor
1989 –
Jack O'Connell, English Actor (Skins)
1987 –
Rumi Hiiragi, Japanese Actress
1987 –
Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
1986 –
Andrew Taylor, English footballer
1986 –
Anton Stralman, Swedish ice hockey player
1986 –
Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
1984 –
Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
1984 –
Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican actress
1982 –
Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
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Aaugust, 1
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2008,
Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
2007,
Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (b. 1932)
2006,
Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
2006,
Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
2006,
Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
2005,
Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
2005,
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
2005,
Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
2005,
Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
2004,
Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913)
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