1640 Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin

1738 Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia

1793 Noah Webster establishes New York's first daily newspaper, American Minerva

1851 First Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montreal)

1854 Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published

1869 Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia

1883 New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902)

1884 Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate

1907 First Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)

1909 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. born.

1909 First US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island NY)

1916 Canadian Pacific inaugurates the 5-mile Connaught Tunnel which eliminated the old route over Rogers Pass and shortened the line through the Selkirk Mountains by 4 1/2 miles.

1917 British forces capture Jerusalem

1931 Spain becomes a republic

1940 British troops first major offensive in North Africa during WW II

1940 Illegal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius

1941 China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy

1941 Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester"

1941 The first US WW II bombing mission in the Far East, Luzon, Philippines

1948 UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide

1951 Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Worttemberg, W Germany

1953 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired

1958 Robert H.W. Welch Jr and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form the anti-Communist John Birch Society

1961 SS Colonel Adolf Eichman found guilty of war crimes in Israel

1961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania

1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway

1962 Tanganyika becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth

1963 Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped

1963 Zanzibar gains independence from Britain

1965 Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium

1967 Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace

1967 Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in the White House

1967 Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania

1968 Doug Engelbart demonstrates first computer mouse at Stanford

1971 Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to the Supreme Court

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