1057 Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan

1519 Panama City founded

1535 Asuncion, Paraguay founded

1620 Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims

1748 United Lutheran Church of US organized

1808 A British mission to Japan arrives but the Tokugawa shogun Ienari rejects the emissaries

1843 National black convention meets (Buffalo NY)

1858 Regular mail to the Pacific coast begins

1863 Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars

1864 Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners

1867 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England

1870 Transcontinental Railway actually completed

1889 The Great London dock strike from August 15 to September 16 helps extend British trade unionism from the skilled classes to the less skilled

1893 US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea

1900 Regular service is commenced over the 3'0" gauge White Pass and Yukon Railway between Skagway, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon.

1901 Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro

1903 New Zealand wins first rugby union test against Australia, 22-3.

1906 First freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago

1907 Members of Australia's federal parliament vote themselves their first pay rise, of 50 per cent.

1914 Panama Canal opens (under cost)

1917 Prv. Michael James O'Rourke (7th Cdn. infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70 France

1918 First full length cartoon (The Sinking of the Lusitania)

1918 US and Russia sever diplomatic ties

1939 "Wizard of Oz" premiers at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood

1944 Anvil-Dragoon, U.S. 6th, 7th and French first Armies, attack Southern France and head toward Southern Germany.

1945 South Korea liberated from Japanese rule

1945 US wartime rationing of gasoline and fuel oil ends

1947 India becomes independent, Islamic part becomes Pakistan

1948 Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)

1950 8.6 quake kills over 1,000 in Assam, India

1952 9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34

1953 Inmates riot at Kingston Penitentiary; burn three buildings; do $2 million damage.

1957 David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon

1957 USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter

1960 Congo (Brazzaville) gains independence from France (Natl Day)

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