1667 Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)
1725 Guillaume de Chazel, drowns in wreck of payship 'Le Chameau,' which sinks 25 km from Louisbourg; found by 3 divers in May 1966, with gold and silver coins worth $700,000
1758 Colonel John Bradstreet 1714-1774 captures Fort Frontenac and its rich storehouses, as well as nine armed vessels with 100 guns, the total French naval force on Lake Ontario; British have only two wounded and not a single man killed
1776 Americans lose to the British at the Batttle of Long Island.
1776 British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
1783 The first hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1789 French Natl Assembly issues "Decl of the Rights of Man & the Citizen"
1858 Lincoln and Douglas debate at Freeport, IL.
1859 Successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn
1883 Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons
1892 The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City is heavily damaged by fire.
1896 Zanzibar loses to England in a 38 minute war (9 02 AM-9 40 AM)
1909 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.
1913 Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
1917 Squadron of minesweepers departs U.S. for service off France
1918 Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
1918 Lt-Colonel William H. CLark-Kennedy (24th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Fresnes-Rouvroy, France
1921 J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise
1927 Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
1928 16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident
1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
1937 George E.T. Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH
1939 Erich Warsitz makes first jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
1940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
