1609 Delaware Bay explored by Henry Hudson for the Netherlands
1609 Explorer Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay
1655 New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service
1776 Battle of Long Island
1789 Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
1862 Battle of 2nd Bull Run
1862 Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC
1867 US occupies Midway Islands in the Pacific
1884 The first known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD
1904 The first jail sentence for speeding in an automobile is pronounced in Newport, RI.
1916 Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
1917 10 suffragists arrested as they picket the White House
1921 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris)
1922 Joseph-Elzéar Bernier builds Craig Harbour, Canada's most northerly settlement to date at 76 degrees I0' N; on the Canadian Government Arctic Expedition.
1922 The first radio commercial is broadcast. Queensboro Realty receives 10 minutes of air time on New York station WEAF for $100.
1941 The Dominion Observatory time becomes Canada's official time at 1 pm on this day.
1942 Reigner cable is sent to Stephen S. Wise - specifying Nazi plans to exterminate almost 4 million Jews.
1952 First guided missile launched from ship during Korean Conflict
1957 Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
1962 Dr Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid
1962 Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)"
1963 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, DC
1963 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr delivers his I Have a Dream speech before an audience of 250,000 near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
1963 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens
1963 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
