This day in history

  451: Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun.
1248: The University of Oxford receives its Royal charter.
1685: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
1782: The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
1787: Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
1837: Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
1840: Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1863: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
1877: Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario.
1887: Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay.
1893:  Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
1940: World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
1944: The experimental MW18014 V2 rocket becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space.
1954: UN Security Council Resolution 104 is adopted in response to the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
1959: A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
1963: Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called "red telephone" link between Washington and Moscow.
1972: Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
1975: The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters".