1521 Cortes destroys the capital of the Aztec Empire
1704 English defeat French at Battle of Blenheim
1777 American explosive device made by David Bushnell explodes near British vessel off New London, CT.
1831 Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
1844 Explorer Ludwig Leichhardt leaves Brisbane to explore unknown territory beyond the Darling Downs.
1846 Joint expedition led by CDR Robert Stockton seizes Los Angeles, CA
1868 In Peru and Bolivia a 8.5 earthquake killed 25,000 caused extreme damage and a tsunami
1868 Quakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)
1870 Armed tug Palos becomes first U.S. Navy ship to transit Suez Canal
1876 Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
1885 BHP incorporated in Australia as a business.
1886 John A. MacDonald drives last spike of the Esquimault-Naniamo railway in British Columbia..
1892 Baltimore Afro-American forms
1899 Alfred Hitchcock born in London
1905 Japanese seize Canadian ship Antiope out of Victoria as a carrier of contraband; during Russo-Japanese War.
1906 Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
1907 First taxicab (NYC)
1913 Canadian Army troops called out at Nanaimo British Columbia to stop rioting.
1914 Establishment of the Australian Red Cross to raise funds to purchase comfort supplies for Australian service personnel overseas
1919 Australia's first demonstration of wireless telephony given by Ernest Fisk to illustrate a lecture in Sydney.
1919 Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)
1920 Princes Highway between Melbourne and Sydney is officially opened at Warragul.
1923 Mustapha Kemal elected president of Turkey
1926 Fidel Castro born
1928 Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins
