0079 Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum

0410 Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire

1313 Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor, dies.

1456 The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.

1572 King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants

1662 Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer

1680 Death of Colonel (Thomas) Blood, Irish adventurer who stole Crown Jewels from Tower of London in 1671.

1690 Calcutta, India, is founded by the British East India Company.

1690 Job Charnock establishes an English trading post in West Bengal, considered the official founding of India's largest city, Calcutta.

1751 Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch

1814 British sack Washington, DC, White House burned

1814 Washington, D.C. is burned by the British.

1853 The first potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY)

1854 National emigration convention meets in Cleveland

1857 Thirty-one people die when ship Lady Bird collides with another vessel off the State of Victoria in Australia

1869 Waffle iron invented

1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera

1909 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal

1912 Alaska becomes a U.S. territory.

1912 NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US olympians

1912 Territory of Alaska organized

1912 US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition the govt

1916 Official inauguration of the Australian Comforts Fund (ACF) The ACF coordinated the activities of the various State "patriotic funds" set up in 1914 to collect money to send comfort parcels to service personnel overseas

1918 Sgt. Samuel Forsyth, NZ Engineers, attached to 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Grevillers, France

1928 A subway wreck occurs under Times Square in New York City.

1932 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the U.S. nonstop, completing a 19-hour flight from Los Angeles to Newark, NJ.

1932 The first transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart

1936 Australian Antarctic Territory created

1939 Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact

1939 Germany and Russia sign a 10-year non-agression pact.

1939 Last man hanged in New South Wales axe murderer John Trevor Kelly.

1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established

1950 Operation Magic Carpet-45,000 Yemenite Jews move to Israel

1954 Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism

1954 International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China

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