1606 Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown

1669 First jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection and sentenced to flogging, branding and slavery

1699 Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed-Sept 1 to Jan 1

1790 First successful US cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI)

1803 Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to US for $27M

1850 Hawaiian post office established

1860 SC votes 169-0 for Ordinance of Secession, first state to secede

1879 Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park

1880 New York's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"

1883 International cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls

1891 Strongman Louis Cyr withstands the pull of 4 horses

1892 Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne

1892 Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse NY

1893 First state anti-lynching statue approved, in Georgia

1900 Giacobini discovers a comet which later will be visited bya spacecraft

1907 Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91

1915 Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli Peninsula

1917 Second conscription referendum in Australia and among forces overseas Proposal to introduce conscription defeated TOP

1918 The use of the collective title "Canadian National Railways" is authorized by order in council P.C. 3122.

1919 Canadian National Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM)

1922 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR)

1928 First international dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Quebec

1929 Mount Davidson dedicated as a San Francisco city park

1938 V.K. Zworykin receives patent on the Iconoscope TV system

1939 Radio Australia begins overseas short-wave service

1944 Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)

1962 The Osmond brothers debut on the Andy Williams Show

1963 Berlin Wall opens for first time to West Berliners

1976 Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns

1977 First Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut

1978 H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail

1980 USSR formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin

1981 "Dreamgirls" opens on Broadway

1983 PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon

1984 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in the Yale library

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