1521 Cortes destroys the capital of the Aztec Empire

1704 English defeat French at Battle of Blenheim

1777 American explosive device made by David Bushnell explodes near British vessel off New London, CT.

1844 Explorer Ludwig Leichhardt leaves Brisbane to explore unknown territory beyond the Darling Downs.

1846 Joint expedition led by CDR Robert Stockton seizes Los Angeles, CA

1868 In Peru and Bolivia a 8.5 earthquake killed 25,000 caused extreme damage and a tsunami

1868 Quakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)

1870 Armed tug Palos becomes first U.S. Navy ship to transit Suez Canal

1876 Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified

1885 BHP incorporated in Australia as a business.

1886 John A. MacDonald drives last spike of the Esquimault-Naniamo railway in British Columbia..

1892 Baltimore Afro-American forms

1899 Alfred Hitchcock born in London

1905 Japanese seize Canadian ship Antiope out of Victoria as a carrier of contraband; during Russo-Japanese War.

1906 Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas

1907 First taxicab (NYC)

1913 Canadian Army troops called out at Nanaimo British Columbia to stop rioting.

1914 Establishment of the Australian Red Cross to raise funds to purchase comfort supplies for Australian service personnel overseas

1919 Australia's first demonstration of wireless telephony given by Ernest Fisk to illustrate a lecture in Sydney.

1919 Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)

1920 Princes Highway between Melbourne and Sydney is officially opened at Warragul.

1923 Mustapha Kemal elected president of Turkey

1926 Fidel Castro born

1928 Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins

1930 Don Ho, Hawaiian singer (Tiny Bubbles) born

1935 Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum)

1939 Sabotage suspected in crash of the 'City of San Francisco' which fell into the Humboldt River killing 24. (Elko, Nevada)

1940 Air crash in Canberra kills three UAP ministers and Chief of the General Staff

1941 Australian Women's Army Service formed

1942 The Commander in Chief U.S. Fleet directed that an Aircraft Experimental and Developmental Squadron be established at NAS Anacostia.

1945 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia

1946 Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus

1948 Satchel Paige at 42 pitches his first major league complete game

1953 Pres Eisenhower establishes Govt Contract Compliance Committee

1955 The opening of the Canso Causeway, linking Cape Breton Island to the Nova Scotia mainland

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