1545 Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opens

1577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world

1642 New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman

1769 Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter

1774 First incident of the Revolution-400 attack Fort William and Mary, NH

1816 Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston

1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Va; South beats North

1879 First federal fish hatching steamer launched (Wilmington Delaware)

1898 First passenger train over the newly reconstructed Victoria Railway Bridge, Montreal. The original 1859 tube had been replaced by a double track steel bridge.

1903 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone (NJ)

1916 Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol

1918 US army of occupation crosses the Rhine, enters Germany

1918 Wilson, becomes first to make a foreign visit as president (France)

1919 Ross and Smith land in Australia from a flight from London

1920 F Pease's interferometer measures first stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)

1924 KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions

1928 George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (New York NY)

1938 "Aryanization" decree is enacted, all Jewish property is transferred to Aryan possession.

1938 Los Angeles freezes at 28ø

1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138

1947 Maine Turnpike opens to traffic

1949 Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capitol to Jerusalem

1951 Future British PM Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher

1959 Archbishop Makarios elected first president of Cyprus

1963 Capitol records signs right of first refusal agreement with the Beatles

1964 In El Paso, TX, LBJ and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border

1968 Playland at the Beach reopens

1971 John Sinclair (sentence 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed

1972 An HC-1 Detachment Five SH-3G Sea King helicopter, stationed aboard Oriskany, rescued a VFP-63 pilot involved in operations in the Tonkin Gulf while on Yankee Station. This was the fifteenth pilot rescued by HC-1

1974 Malta becomes a republic

1976 Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur

1976 Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to San Francisco 13h14m)

1977 Entire University of Evansville basketball team, die in plane crash

1978 Susan B Anthony dollar, first US coin to honor a woman, issued

1981 Polish government declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists

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