1609 Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope

1647 Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces at Dangan Hill in Ireland.

1709 First known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)

1789 First police force, named Nightwatch, is established in Australian colony of NSW.

1796 Boston African Society establishes with 44 members

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St Helena

1844 Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death

1860 Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in NYC

1868 Quake destroys Arica Chile

1876 Thomas Edison patents mimeograph

1882 Snow falls on Lake Michigan

1890 Daughters of the American Revolution organizes

1890 The Knights of Labor strike the New York Central Railroad August 8.

1900 NSW and Victorian Contingent departs Sydney for the Boxer Rebellion in China

1909 R S Falkiner of Moonbria sheep station in NSW demonstrates first electric sheep-shears.

1915 Battle for Sari Bair

1916 Battle for Mouquet Farm

1918 Battle for Amiens begins

1918 Cpl. Herman J. Good (13th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France

1918 Prv. John B. Cook (13th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France

1919 Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence

1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight

1929 Salem Oregon airport dedicated

1937 Berlin 115 demonstrators are arrested. Rev. Martin Niemoller is arrested and charged with having opposed Nazi restrictions.

1937 Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power

1940 Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks

1942 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Wash DC

1944 HMCS Regina (Corvette) torpedoed

1945 Pres Harry S Truman signs UN Charter

1945 USSR declares war against Japan in WW II

1949 Bhutan, land of the Dragon, became an independent monarchy

1953 US & South Korea initial a mutual security pact

1955 Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy

1956 Fire & explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium

1960 Ivory Coast declares independence

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