1560 Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy
1583 The Delight, with 85 persons aboard, founders on the banks of Sable Island; first Canadian shipwreck on record.
1680 Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa F‚ from Spanish
1796 Mississauga Chief Wabakinine, protecting his sister from a British soldier, is struck on the head with a rock and killed; his wife is also seriously injured.
1816 Quebec has an early season snowfall. WOW that is early even for us Canadians!!
1831 Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)
1841 John Hampson patents venetian blind
1841 The Venetian blind is patented by John Hampton of New Orleans, but he didn't tell us how to clean them!
1852 Tlingit warriors destroy Hudson's Bay Company Fort Selkirk, Yukon after the HBC tries to break the Tlingit monopoly on trade with interior tribes.
1857 First book published by an Australian female author Gertrude the Emigrant, by Caroline Atkinson.
1857 In one of Australia's worst maritime disasters, 121 people drown when the Dunbar sinks off Sydney Heads;
1858 First Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
1862 Billy Barker discovers gold in creeks running into the Quesnel River; town of Barkerville, BC, grows up around mine; the find sparks a massive gold rush into the Cariboo.
1878 American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY
1912 Mr Carter-Cotton chosen first chancellor of Univ of British Columbia
1917 Company Sgt. Major Robert Hanna (29th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France
1917 Cpl. Fliip Konowal (47th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France
1944 Dumbarton Oaks conference opens in Washington, DC; establishes UN
1944 HMCS Alberni lost
1945 Pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program
1953 Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m
1959 Hawaii becomes 50th US state
1961 Australian TV current affairs program Four Corners makes TV debut.
1963 Martial law declared in S Vietnam
1964 Canadian Bette Singer dives a record-setting 307 feet into Bahaman waters.
