1645 Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty

1682 William Penn sails from England to America, where he would establish the Pennsylvania Colony.

1843 The first black participation in national political convention (Liberty Party)

1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city

1854 John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels

1862 Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY

1862 Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee

1862 Confederate troops defeat Union forces at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA.

1885 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda

1888 Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day

1905 Baseball slugger Ty Cobb makes his major league debut.

1905 Ty Cobb's first major league at bat (Detroit Tigers)

1913 US Navy tests Sperry gyroscopic stabilizer (automatic pilot)

1914 Battle of Tannenberg, one of history's great military disasters, ends after the Russian Second Army under Samsonov is enveloped and crushed by the Germans, losing 30,000 men; Samsonov committed suicide.

1916 Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany

1922 Tiger Rag, still a familiar ragtime tune, is recorded by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.

1939 NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)

1941 Nazi forces take the city of Mga as the siege of Leningrad begins during WWII.

1941 Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II

1942 Battle of Alam Halfa – 9th Australian Division again in action at El Alamein

1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania

1945 Hong Kong is liberated when the British navy under Rear-Admiral Cecil Harcourt sails into Victoria harbour to accept the Japanese surrender.

1945 Hong Kong liberated from Japan

1945 The Japanese POW camp Shamshuipo in Hong Kong is liberated containin 1500 POW's including 400 Canadians

1956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas

1961 The first Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons

1963 Hot Line communications link between Wash DC & Moscow went begins

1963 The Hot Line phone linking the White House with the Kremlin was installed.

1965 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball

1965 Casey Stengel retires from baseball after a career spanning 40 years.

1965 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland

1967 The US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as the first black US Supreme Court Justice.

1967 US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as first black justice

1968 Death of CEW Bean, founder of the Australian War Memorial and editor of the Official history of Australia in the war of 1914–18

1968 John and Yoko Lennon's One on One concert at Madison Square Garden raises $250,000 to help mentally retarded children.

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