1684 Patent granted for the thimble

1707 Battle of Almansa-Franco-Spanish forces defeat Anglo-Portugese

1792 Guillotine first used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier

1848 A Graham discovers asteroid #9 Metis

1859 Ground broken for Suez Canal

1862 Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans, La

1862 Union naval forces occupy New Orleans, LA

1864 Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas

1867 Tokyo is opened for foreign trade

1876 Chicago Cubs first NL game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout)

1890 J Palisa discovers asteroids #291 Alice & #292 Ludovica

1891 Pres Benjamin Harrison visits SF

1896 Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado)

1898 Congress declares war existed with Spain since 21 April

1898 US declares war on Spain

1900 At Israel's Port South Africa, the Canadians engage Boers in Battle of Israel's Port.

1901 Australian forces return from service in the Boxer Rebellion in China

1901 Erve Beck hit the first home run in the American League

1901 New York becomes first state requiring auto license plates ($1 fee)

1904 NY Yankee Jack Chesbro's first of 41 wins this year

1906 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #599 Luisa

1914 First combat observation mission by Navy plane, at Veracruz, Mexico.

1915 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli

1915 Australian troops land on the beaches of Gallipoli, Turkey

1915 Capt. Francis Alexander CAron Scrimger (Cdn. Army Medical Corp.) wins the Victoria Cross at Ypres, Belgium

1916 First commemoration of Anzac Day

1918 Australians drive Germans from Villers-Bretonneux, France

1923 First Anzac Day Dawn Service held on Mt Clarence, overlooking King Georges Sound, Albany, Western Australia

1925 Hindenburg takes office as president of Germany

1937 Clem Sohn air show performer dies at 26 when his chute fails to open

1938 The first use of seeing eye dog

1940 Two Canadian battalions held back in Scotland; on the way to join British force bound for Norway.

1945 45 countries convene UN Conference on Intl Organization in SF

1945 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany

1945 RCAF's No. 6 Group makes its last bombing raid over Germany.

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