1769 In Cahokia Illinois, Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawas, murdered by an Illinois Indian; six years earlier he helped lead the Ottawa, Hurons (Wyandots), Potawatomis and Ojibwas in a rising against the British garrisons on the Great Lakes.

1770 Capt Cook arrives in New South Wales

1775 British begin siege of Boston

1777 New York adopts new constitution as an independent state

1792 France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia

1809 Napolean I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria

1841 First detective story (Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue") published

1861 Robert E Lee resigns from Union army

1865 Safety matches were first advertised this day.

1871 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)

1872 SF Bar Association organized

1879 The first mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus

1884 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"

1888 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India

1898 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens

1902 Marie & Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium

1903 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #508 Princetonia

1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis

1904 M Wolf discovers asteroid #532 Herculina

1906 Australian wombat dies in London Zoo at 26; oldest known marsupial

1910 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km

1912 Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens

1914 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colo

1914 F Kaiser discovers asteroid #786 Bredichina,and G Neujmin discovers asteroid #787 Moskva

1914 In Boston, Mass., James Duffy of Canada wins the 18th Boston Marathon in 2 25 01.2.

1916 Wrigley Field in Chicago opens

1917 SS Ballochbuie, torpedoed and sunk by German UC41 off the Firth of Forth Isle of May. In passage from Aberdeen to Sunderland.

1918 The Canadian Government calls up men from ages of 20 to 22 for military service.

1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army

1920 7th modern Olympic games opens in Antwerp

1920 Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi

1926 First check sent by radio facsimile transmission across the Atlantic

1931 Louis Armstrong recorded the classic, " When It’ s Sleepy Time Down South" , for Okeh Records

1934 One of America’ s most beloved child stars made her debut. Shirley Temple debuted in " Stand Up and Cheer", which opened in New York City. Moviegoers would rave about her song and dance routine, " Baby, Take a Bow", for many years.

1935 On the island of Formosa a 7.1 quake causes 3,280 deaths. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes

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