1876 Colorado becomes 38th state
1876 Wild Bill Hickok shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's
1877 SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
1896 George Samuelson completes rowing the Atlantic (New York to England)
1901 Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited
1903 First coast-to-coast automobile trip (San Francisco to New York ) completed
1903 Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
1906 Chicago White Sox begin record 19 game win streak
1907 Bank of Italy opens first branch in San Francisco
1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes first delivery from Wright Brothers
1909 The first Lincoln head pennies minted
1914 Germany declares war on Russia in WW I
1916 Hawaii National Park established
1917 Frank Little, IWW organizer is lynched in Butte, Montana
1917 Start of Third Battle of Ypres – Australian soldiers in action at Menin Road, Glencorse Wood, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde Ridge and Passchendaele
1923 Pres Harding dies at Palace Hotel, SF
1934 Paul Von Hindenburg dies at 86, Hitler takes over presidency
1934 The first airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
1934 William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour
1936 Adolph Hitler opens Berlin Olympic Games
1939 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers
1940 First expulsion of Jews from Cracow.
1940 HMS OSWALD,sunk 10 miles SE of Cape Spartivento, SW Italy in Ionian Sea - rammed by Italian destroyer 'Vivaldi'.
1941 Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
1943 PT-109 rammed & sunk, the future Pres. Kennedy suffers a back is injury
