1429 Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over English

1553 Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England

1661 Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan

1715 John Flamsteed observes Uranus for 6th time

1813 Rubber is patented

1814 USS Peacock captures HMS Epervier

1852 First edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published

1856 Peace between England & Russia

1857 US Army, Pacific Div HQ permanently established at Presidio (SF)

1861 Asteroid 68-Leto & Asteroid 69-Hesperia discovered

1861 Maryland's House of Delegates vote against seceding from Union

1861 R Luther discovers asteroid #68 Leto

1862 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Miss

1862 New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War

1891 In Vancouver BC the Canadian Pacific Ltd. steamship Empress of India arrives in Vancouver from Yokohama to open regular service to the Far East; breaks record Pacific crossing by two days.

1892 Charlie Reilly is baseball's first pinch hitter

1894 Commonweal of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Wash, DC 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol

1898 U.S. warships engage Spanish gunboats and shore batteries at Cienfuegos, Cuba

1902 M Wolf discovers asteroid #484 Pittsburghia

1903 Frank Alberta at 4 10 am, a huge 74 million tonne slab of limestone slides off the east slope of Turtle Mountain and sweeps 1.6 km through the Crowsnest Pass valley and the coal mining village of Frank, burying the mine entrance and killing at least 70 people in 100 seconds; only 23 survive, and 17 trapped miners dig themselves to safety 13 hours later. The slab is 400 metres high, 1200 metres wide and 150 metres thick.

1903 Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta)

1905 2" rain falls in 10 mins in Taylor, TX

1912 108ø F (42ø C), Tuguegarao, Philippines (Oceania record)

1913 Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper

1916 Irish nationalists surrender to British in Dublin

1921 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #953 Painleva

1927 Construction of the Spirit of St Louis is completed

1930 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1268 Libya

1938 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1484 Postrema

1939 Whitestone bridge connecting the Bronx & Queens opens

1944 Fast carrier task force (12 carriers) commence 2 day bombing of Truk

1944 HMCS ATHABASKAN (RCN), sunk off north coast of Brittany, France in English Channel, 10 miles north of Ile de Vierge - by 1 or 2 torpedoes from German torpedo boat T.24.While covering minelaying operation of Brittany with Canadian destroyer 'Haida'.

1945 Canadians start air dropping food supplies to the starving Dutch.

1945 The German commanding officer in Italy surrenders to General Alexander of the U.S. 5th Army unit.

1945 US liberates Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany

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