0565 St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness
1454 Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
1485 Richard III slain at Bosworth Field-last of Plantagenets
1654 Jacob Barsimson, said to be first Jewish immigrant to America, lands at New Amsterdam
1711 British Admiral Hovenden Walker's assault on New France falters as 8 of his 15 warships are wrecked in gales and heavy fog in the St. Lawrence; nearly 900 men drown; 25 ships remaining in fleet return to England.
1762 First female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
1775 King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion
1787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
1791 Haitian Revolution begins
1798 French forces land in Ireland
1846 US annexes New Mexico
1851 Gold fields discovered in Australia
1851 Yacht "America" wins first Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup)
1864 Geneva Convention signed, by 12 nations
1864 International Red Cross Founded
1886 William J. Kendall successfully swims through the Niagara Rapids wearing a cork life jacket.
1901 Cadillac Company founded
1902 President Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to ride in an automobile
1906 First Victor Victrola manufactured
1910 Japan annexes Korea
1911 Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre
1932 BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts
1944 HMS Nabob (Cdn. manned aircraft carrier) severely damaged by torpedo off Norway
1949 In the Queen Charlotte Island a 8.1 earthquake was Canada's largest historic earthquake.
1952 CBC tele-cine projectionist inserts a slide upside down; Canada's first known TV gaffe.
