1645 Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty
1682 William Penn sails from England to America, where he would establish the Pennsylvania Colony.
1820 James Wilson, Strathaven Radical, hung and beheaded at Glasgow Green for his part in the 1820 Rising. A crowd of 20,000 sympathetic to Wilson, witnessed the event. James Wilson, on his way to the scaffold, remarked to the hangman Thomas Moore - "Did ye evir see sic a crowd, Tammas?"
1843 The first black participation in national political convention (Liberty Party)
1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
1854 John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
1862 Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY
1862 Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
1862 Confederate troops defeat Union forces at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA.
1885 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
1888 Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
1905 Baseball slugger Ty Cobb makes his major league debut.
1905 Ty Cobb's first major league at bat (Detroit Tigers)
1913 US Navy tests Sperry gyroscopic stabilizer (automatic pilot)
1914 Battle of Tannenberg, one of history's great military disasters, ends after the Russian Second Army under Samsonov is enveloped and crushed by the Germans, losing 30,000 men; Samsonov committed suicide.
1916 Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
1922 Tiger Rag, still a familiar ragtime tune, is recorded by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.
1939 NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
1941 Nazi forces take the city of Mga as the siege of Leningrad begins during WWII.
1941 Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
1942 Battle of Alam Halfa – 9th Australian Division again in action at El Alamein
1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
1945 Hong Kong is liberated when the British navy under Rear-Admiral Cecil Harcourt sails into Victoria harbour to accept the Japanese surrender.
1945 Hong Kong liberated from Japan
1945 The Japanese POW camp Shamshuipo in Hong Kong is liberated containin 1500 POW's including 400 Canadians
