1609 Delaware Bay explored by Henry Hudson for the Netherlands

1609 Explorer Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay

1655 New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service

1776 Battle of Long Island

1789 Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus

1862 Battle of 2nd Bull Run

1862 Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC

1867 US occupies Midway Islands in the Pacific

1884 The first known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD

1904 The first jail sentence for speeding in an automobile is pronounced in Newport, RI.

1916 Italy declares war against Germany during WW I

1917 10 suffragists arrested as they picket the White House

1921 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris)

1922 Joseph-Elzéar Bernier builds Craig Harbour, Canada's most northerly settlement to date at 76 degrees I0' N; on the Canadian Government Arctic Expedition.

1922 The first radio commercial is broadcast. Queensboro Realty receives 10 minutes of air time on New York station WEAF for $100.

1941 The Dominion Observatory time becomes Canada's official time at 1 pm on this day.

1942 Reigner cable is sent to Stephen S. Wise - specifying Nazi plans to exterminate almost 4 million Jews.

1952 First guided missile launched from ship during Korean Conflict

1957 Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill

1962 Dr Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid

1962 Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)"

1963 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, DC

1963 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr delivers his I Have a Dream speech before an audience of 250,000 near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.

1963 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens

1963 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial

1964 Beatlemania is in full swing as The Beatles grace the cover of LIFE magazine.

1964 Race riot in Philadelphia

1968 Anti-war demonstrators clash with police in Chicago, where Hubert H. Humphrey receives the Democratic nomination for president.

1968 Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven

1971 25 people die and 1,150 are rescued when the Greek liner Haleanna catches fire.

1972 Mark Spitz earns the first of seven gold medals, seting a world record in the 200-meter butterfly at the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.

1973 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527

1973 An earthquake jolts Mexico, killing more than 500 people.

1973 In Veracruz, Mexico a 7.2 earthquake resulted in more than 600 reported killed, thousands injured

1974 Soyuz 15 returns to Earth

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