0654 St Eugene I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0955 The Battle of the Lechfeld August 10 ends 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West Otto the Great of Saxony defeats the Magyars with an army recruited from all the duchies
1519 Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate the Earth
1680 Pueblo Indians rebel against Spaniards in Mexico
1743 Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated
1790 Robert Gray's Columbia, completes first American around world voyage
1792 Mobs in Paris attack the palace of Louis XVI
1809 Ecuador declares independence from Spain
1821 Missouri admitted as 24th US state
1827 Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1831 Former slave Nat Turner led violent insurrection against slavery
1833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
1835 Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
1840 The 'Star of the East' first known balloon to fly in Canada.
1846 Congress charters the "nation's attic," the Smithsonian Institution
1856 Hurricane washes away 300 in Louisiana
1866 Transatlantic cable laid
1877 First use of the telephone to dispatch trains. This was at the Caledonia Mine at Glace Bay on the Sydney Mines Railway. One of the owners was Gardiner G. Hubbard who was the father in law of Alexander Graham Bell who installed two telephones to control train movements.
1883 First train reaches Calgary.
1884 In New York City, a 5.5 earthquake caused large cracks in walls at Amityville and Jamaica (intensity VII). The shock was felt strongly at New York City
1887 Excursion train crashes killing 101 in Chatsworth, Illinois
1893 Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act
1907 Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Peking to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally
1911 Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
1913 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
