1513 Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Le¢n

1550 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy

1762 In Burma a very destructive and violent earthquake felt all over Bengal, Arakan, etc., chiefly and most severely in the north part of the east coast of the Bay of Bengal

1781 Frigate Alliance captures 2 British privateers, Mars and Minerva

1792 Congress establishes Philadelphia mint

1792 US authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle &2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins &silver dollar, « dollar, quarter, dime &half-dime

1845 H.L. Fizeau &J Leon Foucault take first photo of Sun

1852 A gang of robbers steal 8,000 ounces of gold from the vessel Nelson, anchored off Williamstown, Victoria.

1860 First Italian Parliament met at Turin

1865 Ambrose P Hill confederate general, dies at 39

1865 CSA Pres Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA

1865 Gen A.P. Hill is killed by a Federal Picket

1865 Lee's line is broken at Petersberg

1865 Richard Cobden founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60

1866 Pres Johnson ends war in Ala, Ark, Fla, Ga, Miss, La, NC, SC, Tn &Va

1869 R Luther discovers asteroid #108 Hecuba

1871 Dominion of Canada's first census shows a population of 3,689,257, including 2,110,000 of British origin and 1,083,000 of French origin

1872 Samuel F B Morse developer of electric telegraph dies at 80

1877 The first Easter egg roll held on White House lawn

1885 Wandering Spirit massacres 9 white settlers and Metis at Frog Lake Saskatchewan takes one man and two women prisoner with 7 other Crees.

1887 Juneau Alaska the US seizes Canadian sealing ships in North Pacific (boy they sure pick on us)

1898 Adoption of U.S. Naval Academy coat of arms

1902 The first motion picture theater opens (LA)

1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power

1916 Belyavskij disc asteroid #851 Zeissia ͔ Wladilena ͕ Nansenia

1917 Pres Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany

1926 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2500

1930 NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda for the first time

1931 Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth &Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee

1932 Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son

1935 Mary Hirsch, becomes first woman licensed as a horse trainer

1935 Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR

1937 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1549 Mikko

1947 UN places former Japanese mandated islands under U.S. trusteeship

1951 First Navy use of jet aircraft as a bomber, launched from a carrier, USS Princeton.

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