1124 Scotland's Alexander I dies at age 46 after a 17-year reign and is succeeded by his brother David, 40, who has ruled in the south since the death of their grandfather Edgar in 1107

1521 Ferdinand Magellan world traveler, killed by Filipino natives

1565 First Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms

1773 British Parliament passes the Tea Act (Boston won't like this)

1805 Naval forces capture Derne, Tripoli; raise first U.S. flag over foreign soil

1805 US Marines attack shores of Tripoli

1813 Americans under Gen Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed

1813 U.S. Navy and Army forces capture York (now Toronto), Canada

1838 Fire destroys half of Charleston

1859 "S.S. Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard

1861 President Abe Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus

1861 President Lincoln extended blockade of Confederacy to VA and NC ports

1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US

1865 1,450 paroled Union POWs killed when steamer "Sultana" blows up

1865 Body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard.

1865 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered

1865 Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 2,000

1874 White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms

1893 John Murray Corse US general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday

1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated

1902 Julius Sterling Morton who started Arbor Day, dies at 72

1903 Long Island's Jamaica Race Track opens

1908 4th modern Olympic games opens in London

1909 Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown

1918 Lt. George Burdon McKean (14th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Gavrelle France

1919 A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #912 Maritima

1922 Yakut ASSR formed in Russian SFSR

1931 100ø F (38ø C), Pahala, Hawaii (state record)

1932 Apollo asteroid discovered, with a perigee of 2 million miles

1932 Hart Crane sailing from Mexico to NY commits suicide

1937 US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment

1940 Himmler issues directive to establish a concentration camp at Auschwitz.

1942 Tornado destroys Pryor Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300

1945 2nd Republic of Austria forms

1947 Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & through the US

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