Historical Events In July - 03
1608 City of Québec founded by Samuel de Champlain
1754 George Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years' War)
1775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
1778 British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa
1806 Michael Keens exhibits first cultivated strawberry
1814 Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada
1816 French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas
1819 The first bank in the U.S. opened in New York City. Business was brisk with $2,807 deposited in the Bank for Savings.
1839 The first state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students
1841 John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus
1848 Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)
1852 Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif)
1861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY
1863 Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North
1871 The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company introduced the first narrow-gauge locomotive. It was called the "Montezuma".
1878 John Wise of Lancaster, PA was the pilot for the maiden flight of a dirigible.
1886 The first NY Tribune printing using first commercial linotype machine
1890 Idaho admitted as 43rd US state
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Black Peter" (BG)
1897 G. A. Lancaster files claim on Eldorado Creek, Yukon, later known as Gold Hill.
1898 Joshua Slocum 1844-1909, from Briar Island, Nova Scotia, becomes the first person to complete a solo circumnavigation of the earth.
1898 US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba
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