0884 France's Carloman dies while hunting and is succeeded as king of the West Franks by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles III (the Fat), son of the late Louis the German

1777 Rev Benjamin Russen executed at Tyburn, England for rape

1859 First train operated over the Victoria Railway Bridge, Montreal. The first passenger train crossed the structure on December 17, 1859 and it was formally opened by the Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VII, on August 25, 1860. The original structure was a single-track iron tubular bridge. The tube, when first constructed, was entirely enclosed and there were ventilation problems. Later a slit 20" wide was cut in the tube the full length of the bridge to permit the emission of smoke.

1862 Confederate torpedo (mine) sinks USS Cairo in Yazoo River.

1870 Joseph Rainey (SC) became first black sworn into House of Reps

1871 Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum

1899 George F Grant of Boston patents golf tee

1901 Marconi receives first transatlantic radio signal, England to US

1906 Oscar Straus, first Jewish cabinet member, appointed Sec of Commerce

1913 The "Mona Lisa," stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered

1915 The first all-metal aircraft (Junkers J.1) test flown at Dessau Germany

1917 French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543

1917 Rev Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town outside Omaha NB

1925 Arthur Heinman coins term "motel," opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo

1925 last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rexa Shah Pahlavi takes over

1937 Japanese aircraft sink USS Panay in Yangtze River near Nanking, China.

1937 The first mobile TV unit (New York NY)

1941 German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews

1941 Naval Air Transport Service is established.

1944 Three Evacuation Squadrons (VE) were established in the Pacific from Air Sea Rescue Squadron

1946 Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building & burying 38

1951 First flight of helicopter with gas-turbine engine at Windsor Locks, CT, demonstrates adaptability of this engine to helicopters.

1951 The Kaman K-225 helicopter, equipped with a Boeing YB-502 turbine engine, made its first flight at Windsor Locks, Conn

1953 Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane

1957 US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)

1959 UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established

1961 Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36

1961 Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Albany GA

1963 Frank Sinatra Jr returned after being kidnapped

1963 Kenya gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1964 Shooting starts for Star Trek pilot, "The Cage" (Menagerie)

1965 Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record

1967 US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit

1968 Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired

1970 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays

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