1609 Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan island
1709 English, Dutch and Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet
1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace."
1777 Battle of Brandywine, PA - the Americans lose to the British
1786 Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce
1789 Alexander Hamilton is appointed Secretary of the Treasury
1814 Battle of Lake Champlain, NY – the Americans defeat the British
1850 The "Swedish Nightingale," Jenny Lind gives his first US concert
1853 The first electric telegraph put into use from Merchant's Exchange to Point Lobos
1875 The first newspaper cartoon strip is published
1881 Three landslides bury Elm, Switzerland
1886 The Mayflower (US) beats The Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup Race
1889 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Crooked Man"
1910 The first commercially successful electric bus line opens in Hollywood
1919 The US marines invade Honduras
1922 The British mandate of Palestine begins
1926 Aloha Tower is dedicated in Honolulu
1926 The US defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship
1928 The first TV drama airs: The Queen's Messenger
1929 San Francisco Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
1930 The Stomboli volcano in Sicily spews two tons of basaltic rocks 2 miles
1935 The US captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year
1936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Later named Hoover Dam)
1941 Celebrity Charles Lindbergh says that "the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the US into WW II
1941 FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight
1944 FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at the 2nd Quebec Conference
1946 The first mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
1950 The first non-metal type typesetting machine is exhibited
1950 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton, Ohio
1950 The Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
1951 Florence Chadwick becomes first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France: 16 hours and 19 minutes
1954 The first Miss America TV broadcast
1960 The 17th Olympic games close in Rome
1962 Beatles cut "Love Me Do" and "PS I Love You"
1964 George Harrison forms Mornyork, Ltd music publishing company
1973 Chile's President, Salvador Allende, is deposed in a military coup
1977 Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy Connors and wins US Open
1986 Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered the biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89.
1987 Lorne Greene dies at 72
1989 Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud
1991 "La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family" goes on sale
1991 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston, Texas
2001 The worst terrorist attack on American soil – 2,819+ die as a result of hijacked airplane attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and an open field in Western Pennsylvania.
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