1145 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil

1509 Henry VIII ascended to throne of England

1529 Spain & Portugal divide eastern hemisphere in Treaty of Saragosa

1769 Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress

1778 Captain John Paul Jones of Ranger led landing party raid on Whitehaven, England

1861 Robert E Lee named commander of Virginia forces

1864 US mints $2. coin (1st appearance of "In God We Trust")

1884 Thomas Stevens starts first bike trip around the world (2 yrs 9 mos)

1889 Oklahoma land rush officially started

1889 Oklahoma Territory lands formerly reserved for Native Americans are opened to white homesteaders by President Harrison at high noon

1897 NYC Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (stiil active)

1898 Spanish-American War action USS Nashville, takes enemy ship

1898 U.S. warships begin blockade of Cuba

1903 American Power Boat Association forms

1906 Olympic games held in Athens are not accepted by the IOC

1909 A Kopff discovers asteroid #680 Genoveva

1911 H E Wood discovers asteroid #715 Transvaalia

1915 Firt military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I

1922 South Ossetian Autonomous Region established in Georgian SSR

1925 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1042 Amazone & #1043 Beate

1927 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1209 Pumma

1930 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1226 Golia

1930 US, Britain & Japan agree to reduce naval forces

1937 NYC college students stage 4th annual peace strike

1940 Rear Adm Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable (He was right)

1941 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1567 Alikoski

1945 General Eisenhower invites eight U.S. congressmen to visit death camps.

1945 Toronto Maple Leafs beat Det Red Wings 4 games to 3 for Stanley Cup

1952 The first atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada

1954 Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began

1955 Congress orders all US coins bear motto "In God We Trust"

1962 Tor Maple Leafs beat Black Hawks 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup

1964 World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY) opens

1967 Tom Conway actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show), dies at 62

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