1640 Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule

1641 Mass becomes first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery

1742 Jews are expelled from Great Russia by Empress Elisabeth

1750 First American school to offer manual training courses opens, Md

1783 Charles and M.N. Roberts ascend 2,000' in a hydrogen balloon

1787 The first lighthouse, built at Kinnaird Head, Fraserburgh, by Thomas Smith and Robert Stevenson, lit.

1838 Van Diemen's Land gets its first library to boost morale.

1842 Midshipman Philip Spencer, son of Secretary of War John C. Spencer, is hanged for mutiny from the yardarm of the U.S.S. Somers, a small brig of war at sea in West Indian waters. He was convicted at a court-martial held on the ship of conspiring to organize a mutiny, murder the officers, and convert the captured ship into a pirate vessel

1854 Armed Diggers prepare for confrontation with troops on Eureka Hill, Victcoria.

1864 Fire in Brisbane destroys city area bounded by Queen, George, Elizabeth and Albert streets.

1878 First White House telephone installed

1887 Sherlock Holmes first appears in print "A Study In Scarlet"

1887 Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao

1896 The First certified public accountants receive certificates, New York

1909 The First Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa

1913 Continuous moving assembly line introduced by Ford (car every 2 38)

1913 The First drive-up gasoline station opens (Pittsburgh)

1913 The Ford Motor Company introduced the continuous moving assembly line on this day. Ford's new assembly line could produce a complete car every two-and-a-half minutes

1917 Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town

1918 Iceland becomes independent state under the Danish crown

1919 Lady Astor sworn-in as first female member of British Parliament

1921 The Detroit Steam Motors Corporation announced the Trask steam car, a favorite project of automobile distributor O.C. Trask.

1921 The First US helium-filled dirigible makes first flight

1921 US Post Office establishes philatelic agency

1924 Calles becomes president of Mexico

1929 BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe

1930 Ruth Nichols becomes first woman pilot to cross the continent

1933 Hitler declares legal unity of German state and Nazi party.

1935 Woody Allen (Allen Konigsberg) was born this day

1936 Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use

1936 EW Brundin and FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants

1936 Lou Rawls (Louis Allen) was born this day

1938 A fine of One Billion Marks is levied against German Jews for the destruction caused during Kristallnacht.

1938 School bus and train collide in Salt Lake City Utah

1939 Lee Trevino golfer was born this day

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