1560 Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy

1583 The Delight, with 85 persons aboard, founders on the banks of Sable Island; first Canadian shipwreck on record.

1680 Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa F‚ from Spanish

1796 Mississauga Chief Wabakinine, protecting his sister from a British soldier, is struck on the head with a rock and killed; his wife is also seriously injured.

1816 Quebec has an early season snowfall. WOW that is early even for us Canadians!!

1841 John Hampson patents venetian blind

1841 The Venetian blind is patented by John Hampton of New Orleans, but he didn't tell us how to clean them!

1852 Tlingit warriors destroy Hudson's Bay Company Fort Selkirk, Yukon after the HBC tries to break the Tlingit monopoly on trade with interior tribes.

1857 First book published by an Australian female author Gertrude the Emigrant, by Caroline Atkinson.

1857 In one of Australia's worst maritime disasters, 121 people drown when the Dunbar sinks off Sydney Heads;

1858 First Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)

1862 Billy Barker discovers gold in creeks running into the Quesnel River; town of Barkerville, BC, grows up around mine; the find sparks a massive gold rush into the Cariboo.

1878 American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY

1912 Mr Carter-Cotton chosen first chancellor of Univ of British Columbia

1917 Company Sgt. Major Robert Hanna (29th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France

1917 Cpl. Fliip Konowal (47th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France

1944 Dumbarton Oaks conference opens in Washington, DC; establishes UN

1944 HMCS Alberni lost

1945 Pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program

1953 Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m

1959 Hawaii becomes 50th US state

1961 Australian TV current affairs program Four Corners makes TV debut.

1963 Martial law declared in S Vietnam

1964 Canadian Bette Singer dives a record-setting 307 feet into Bahaman waters.

1965 Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)

1968 After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio

1968 Democratic Convention opens in Chicago

1968 Radio Prague (Czech) at 12 50 AM announces a soviet led invasion. Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement

1968 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)

1972 First hot air balloon flight over the Alps

1972 Republican convention opens in Miami Beach

1972 US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched

1975 3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway

1981 Ottawa Roughrider Tony Gabriel catches a pass in his 128th consecutive game; sets world pro football record; record eclipsed in 1987 by the Steve Largent of the NFL.

1984 Australia's federal budget speech is televised live from Canberra for the first time

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