1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia

1621 Galileo perfects the telescope

1678 Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford

1685 Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden

1775 First official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)

1847 Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper " North Star"

1855 The Great Western Railway "branch" between Hamilton and Toronto is opened to traffic.

1866 Paid fire department replaces volunteer companies

1868 Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; first blacks on US trial jury

1883 48th Congress (1883-85) convenes

1883 The first coed higher education institution in the U.S., Oberlin College, begins classes in Ohio.

1917 Prv. Henry James Nicholas, 1st Battalion, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Polderhoek, Belgium

1920 Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty

1922 The Toll of the Sea becomes the first successful Technicolor motion picture, screened at the Rialto Theatre in New York City.

1930 Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)

1938 AAU's decides to continue linear measuring system over metric

1944 Civil War starts in Athens Greece

1947 Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire makes its Broadway debut.

1948 "Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss)

1948 Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100

1948 First US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in

1952 First TV broadcast in Hawaii

1956 Wilt Chamberlain's first collegiate basketball game (scores 52)

1960 "Camelot" opens at the Majestic Theater on Broadway

1964 Police arrests 800 sit-in students at University of California at Berkeley

1965 USSR launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon

1967 Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the world's first successful heart transplant at Cape Town, South Africa. The recipient of the new heart, Louis Washkansky, survived 18 days.

1967 Final run of "20th Century Limited," famed New York-Chicago luxury train

1969 John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar

1972 Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die

1973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet)

1975 Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed

1979 Christie's auctions a thimble for a record $18,400

1979 Eleven people are killed when fans stampede during a concert by The Who at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum.

1984 Thousands die and over 200,000 are injured from a gas leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India (the world's worst industrial accident). occurred when gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India.

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