1492 Haiti discovered by Columbus, at Mole Saint Nicolas

1534 Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish

1631 The first predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed

1745 Charles Edward Stewart and the Jacobite Army retreated from Derby, England.

1768 First edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland)

1790 Congress meets in Philadelphia, new temporary US capitol

1846 The opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris)

1849 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland

1866 Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed

1870 Joseph H Rainey, first black in the House of Reps (SC)

1872 William S. Hart (actor, director, silent screen star Wild Bill Hickock) was born This was the first TV show I watched in 1954

1875 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes

1876 City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time

1876 The first crematorium in US begins operation, Washington PA

1877 Washington Post publishes first edition

1880 The Edmonton Bulletin, the first newspaper in Edmonton and in the province of Alberta begins publication

1882 Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit

1884 Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Washington DC

1900 Agnes (Robertson) Moorehead Emmy Award-winning actresswas born

1900 Journalist and parliamentary reporter Alphonse Desjardins founds North Amberica's first credit union in Levis Quebec

1907 Coal mine explosions in Monongah WV, kills 361

1917 At 9 05 A.M., in the harbor of Halifax in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, the most devastating man-made explosion in the pre-nuclear age occurs when the Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, explodes twenty minutes after colliding with another vessel.

1917 Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)

1921 Irish Free State gains independence from Britain

1922 The first commercial carrier of electricity launched its service on this day in 1922 in Utica, New York.

1922 the first constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation

1923 Presidential address broadcast on radio (President Calvin Coolidge) for the first time

1941 NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens

1948 Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts debuted on CBS-TV. The show introduced such talent as Pat Boone, The Chordettes, Carmel Quinn, The McGuire Sisters, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Connie Francis, Steve Lawrence and Al Martino.

1955 New York psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing

1955 The Federal government standardized the size of license plates throughout the U.S. Previously, individual states had designed their own license plates, resulting in wide variations.

1956 Nelson Mandela and 156 others arrested for political activities in S Africa

1957 AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987)

1957 The first US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up

1958 US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back

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