1676 Sudbury, Mass attacked by Indians
1689 Death of British Chief Justice Judge George Jeffreys in the Tower of London. He presided over the "Bloody Assizes" following the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685.
1775 At about 10 p.m., three men took to their horses to ride from Boston to Concord, MA to warn the citizens of the approaching British army. The famous poem, "Paul Revere's Ride", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, glorified the Bostonian as the lone rider. He was, in fact, accompanied by William Dawes and Samuel Prescott. Only Prescott made it all the way to Concord. Revere was nabbed by a British cavalry patrol near Lexington, MA (Dawes and Prescott escaped).
1775 Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "the British are coming!"
1831 Publication starts of the weekly Sydney Herald, Australia's oldest still existing newspaper
1838 Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails
1839 Henry Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds)
1846 The telegraph ticker was patented by R.E. House of New York City.
1853 First train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)
1859 Montreal Canadiens wins their 4th straight NHL Stanley Cup
1861 Col Robert E Lee turns down offer to command Union armies
1863 In Weston-super-Mare, England Augustus Love born. Love waves, named after A.E.H. Love, are earthquake waves that move horizontally with respect to the direction of travel, with no vertical motion.
1868 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #98 Ianthe
1868 San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed
1869 First international cricket match, held in SF, wins by Californian
1876 Daniel O'Leary completes a 500 mile walk in 139 hrs 32 min
1889 In Germany First distant earthquake recorded. Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz made the first known recordings of a distant earthquake.
1889 In Japan a 7+ quake occured near east coast of Honshu, Japan. Teleseism first identified on a seismogram. The instruments were horizontal pendulums, designed by Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz to measure slight changes in the direction of the vertical. Two of these pendulums, located in Potsdam and Wilhelmshaven, recorded a large earthquake on April 17, 1889. The earthquake had been felt in Japan about an hour before it was recorded in Germany
1895 New York State passed an act that established free public baths! They were to be open 14 hours a day and provide hot and cold water.
1906 SF earthquake & fire kills nearly 4,000 & destroys 75% of the city
1906 The Great San Francisco Earthquake occurred at 5 13 a.m.
1907 Fairmont Hotel opens
1910 Walter R. Brookins made the first airplane flight at night.
1911 J Helffrich discovers asteroid #713 Luscinia
1915 M Wolf discovers asteroids #806 Gyldenia & #807 Ceraskia
