0258 St Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0523 St Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0768 Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1181 Supernova observed by Chinese &Japanese astronomers
1787 Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate
1806 Holy Roman Empire ends
1815 US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis &Tripoli
1825 Bolivia gains independence from Peru
1854 Congress passes Confiscation Act
1862 CSA ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack
1864 Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bayd
1870 White conservatives suppresed black vote &captured Tenn legislature
1889 London's Savoy Hotel opens, the first British hotel to have private baths
1890 Cy Young pitches &wins 1st game
1890 First use of electric chair in US, John Hart, in NY for murder
1914 Austria-Hungary declares war against Russia
1914 Ellen Wilson Pres Wilson's wife, dies at 54
1914 Serbia declares war against Germany
1915 Battle of Lone Pine, Gallipoli starts – Seven Australians receive Victoria Crosses
1919 The first air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)
1921 Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins
1926 Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim the English Channel
1926 Warner Bros premiers Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system
1927 The third Toronto Union Station is opened officially by Edward, Prince of Wales. It was opened to the public on August 11, but passengers had to walk across to the old station tracks. The first day on which trains used the new, elevated, tracks through the new station platform was January 31, 1930.
1934 US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915
