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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.

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