1204 4th Crusade sacks Constantinople

1606 England adopts the Union Jack as its flag

1770 Townsend Acts repealed

1776 Halifax resolution for independence adopted by North Carolina

1787 Philadelphia's Free African Society forms

1811 First US colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, WA

1838 Rebel Col. Samuel Lount and Captain Peter Matthews publicly hanged for treason and sedition during the Rebellion of 1837 in Upper Canada

1849 A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #10 Hygiea

1859 Hibernia Savings and Loan Society of SF incorporates

1861 Fort Sumter, SC is shelled by Confederacy, starting the Civil War

1862 James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, GA

1864 Confederate Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, Tn

1869 North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law

1876 Founding of Beaver Steamship Line, formerly the Canadian Shipping Co., with three new iron-screw steamers to replace the old sailing ships; the Montreal to Liverpool service is sold to the CPR in 1903, and is the origin of CP Ships.

1877 British annex Transvaal, in South Africa

1898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in SF Bay to Navy

1904 M Wolf discovers asteroid #531 Zerlina

1905 Hippodrome arena opens (NYC)

1908 Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea Massachusetts

1909 Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens

1911 A non-stop London-Paris flight takes 3h56m the first time

1911 LT Theodore Ellyson qualifies as first naval aviator

1934 Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mt Washington, NH, 231 mph

1934 Winds gust to 231 MPH on Mount Washington NH

1935 A Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar.

1938 US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses (NY)

1939 G Kulin discovers asteroid #1489 Attila

1945 General Eisenhower is shown the first cave where the Nazis hoarded $250 million in captured treasures, one half-mile under the earth's surface.

1946 Syria gains independence from France

1954 Billy Haley records "Rock Around the Clock"

1954 Joe Turner releases "Shake, Rattle and Roll"

1955 Salk polio vaccine safe and effective;

1961 Ray Charles wins 4 Grammys

1961 Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes first person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1) I have a book issued by the USSR on his flight

1962 U.S. Navy demonstrates new landing craft with retractable hydrofoils, LCVP (H)

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