1578 William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation

1778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$"

1789 House of Reps first full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg first speaker

1850 SF County Govt established

1853 Cincinnati became first US city to pay firefighters a regular salary

1863 Wartime conscription law in US goes into effect

1865 Battle of 5 Forks, signalling end of Lee's army

1867 Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama

1867 International Exhibition opens in Paris

1868 Hampton Institute opens

1870 Patrick Gass sgt of Lewis &Clark Expedition, dies at 98

1873 Alfred Paraf of New York City patented the first successful oleomargarine.

1873 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die

1892 A Charlois discovers asteroid #331 Etheridgea

1905 British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya

1910 Dumitru Dan (Romania) completed a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk

1916 Australian soldiers take up positions on the Western Front at Armentières, France

1918 England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force

1918 Establishment of the Repatriation Department

1920 Church disestablished in Wales

1921 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #950 Ahrensa

1924 Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co

1924 Imperial Airways formed in Britain

1925 First planned night landings on a carrier, USS Langley, by VF-1

1925 Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated [see May 9, 1925]

1927 Automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice

1930 Zawditu first reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies

1931 Jackie Mitchell became first female in professional baseball

1933 Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses

1935 First radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY

1935 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1344 Caubeta

1936 Orissa constituted a province of British India

1937 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1417 Walinskia ൙ Tamblyn

1937 M Laugier discovers asteroid #1426 Riviera

1938 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY

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