1609 Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope
1647 Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces at Dangan Hill in Ireland.
1709 First known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
1789 First police force, named Nightwatch, is established in Australian colony of NSW.
1796 Boston African Society establishes with 44 members
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St Helena
1844 Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death
1860 Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in NYC
1868 Quake destroys Arica Chile
1876 Thomas Edison patents mimeograph
1882 Snow falls on Lake Michigan
1890 Daughters of the American Revolution organizes
1890 The Knights of Labor strike the New York Central Railroad August 8.
1900 NSW and Victorian Contingent departs Sydney for the Boxer Rebellion in China
1909 R S Falkiner of Moonbria sheep station in NSW demonstrates first electric sheep-shears.
1915 Battle for Sari Bair
1916 Battle for Mouquet Farm
1918 Battle for Amiens begins
1918 Cpl. Herman J. Good (13th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France
1918 Prv. John B. Cook (13th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France
1919 Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence
1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
1929 Salem Oregon airport dedicated
1937 Berlin 115 demonstrators are arrested. Rev. Martin Niemoller is arrested and charged with having opposed Nazi restrictions.
1937 Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power
