On this day in history
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Source: HistoryNet.com
1714: George I of England crowned.
1805: Austrian general Karl Mac surrenders to Napoleon's army at the battle of Ulm.
1818: The United States and Britain establish the 49th Parallel as the boundary between Canada and the United States.
1870: The Summer Palace in Beijing, China, is burnt to the ground by a Franco-British expeditionary force.
1924: Baseball's first 'colored World Series' is held in Kansas City, Mo.
1938: Czechoslovakia, complying with Nazi policy, outlaws the Communist Party and begins persecuting Jews.
1941: German troops reach the approaches to Moscow.
1944: U.S. troops land on Leyte in the Philippines, keeping General MacArthur's pledge "I shall return."
1945: Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon form the Arab League to present a unified front against the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.
1968: Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.
1973: Arab oil-producing nations ban oil exports to the United States, following the outbreak of Arab-Israeli war.
1977: Charter plane crashes in Mississippi, killing three members of popular Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, along with their assistant road manager, the pilot and co-pilot.
1991: Oakland Hills firestorm destroys nearly 3,500 homes and apartments and kills 25 people.
2011: In the Libyan civil war, rebels capture deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte, killing him soon afterward.
