0654 St Eugene I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

0955 The Battle of the Lechfeld August 10 ends 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West Otto the Great of Saxony defeats the Magyars with an army recruited from all the duchies

1519 Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate the Earth

1680 Pueblo Indians rebel against Spaniards in Mexico

1743 Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated

1790 Robert Gray's Columbia, completes first American around world voyage

1792 Mobs in Paris attack the palace of Louis XVI

1809 Ecuador declares independence from Spain

1840 The 'Star of the East' first known balloon to fly in Canada.

1846 Congress charters the "nation's attic," the Smithsonian Institution

1856 Hurricane washes away 300 in Louisiana

1866 Transatlantic cable laid

1877 First use of the telephone to dispatch trains. This was at the Caledonia Mine at Glace Bay on the Sydney Mines Railway. One of the owners was Gardiner G. Hubbard who was the father in law of Alexander Graham Bell who installed two telephones to control train movements.

1883 First train reaches Calgary.

1884 In New York City, a 5.5 earthquake caused large cracks in walls at Amityville and Jamaica (intensity VII). The shock was felt strongly at New York City

1887 Excursion train crashes killing 101 in Chatsworth, Illinois

1893 Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act

1907 Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Peking to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally

1911 Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords

1913 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses

1914 Voluntary recruitment for first Australian Imperial Force (AIF) begins

1919 Ukranian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukrane

1921 FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello

1929 Canadian National Railways place in service the first road diesel electric passenger locomotive. This consisted of two units, weighing a total of 335 tons.

1938 Temperatur reaches 119 degrees F in Pendleton, Oregon. - New state record

1940 Anti-Jewish laws are passed in Romania.

1942 HMS EAGLE sunk north of Algiers, Algeria by 4 torpedoes from German U-73. 260 men lost out a wartime crew of 1,160

1944 Race riots in Athens Alabama

1945 HMCS Uganda returns from the Pacific theater in WWII

1945 Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged

1948 ABC enters network TV

1948 Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC

1949 Natl Military Establishment renamed Dept of Defense

1949 The Avro Canada C.102 Jetliner takes maiden flight; designed to meet a Trans-Canada Airlines requirement; first jet transport to fly in North America and second to fly in the world

1960 Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned first object from space

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