1782 First nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns, Boston

1800 Charles Goodyear founder of Goodyear Tire was born

1813 British soldiers burn the town of Buffalo, New York, during this War of 1812 battle.

1813 Major General Phineas Riall attacks villages of Black Rock and Buffalo with a party of Canadian militia and Indians to get revenge on burning of Newark and Queenston on Dec. 10.

1845 Texas is admitted as the 28th state of the US.

1848 Gas lights first installed at White House (Polk's administration)

1848 Gaslights are installed in the White House.

1851 First Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened (Boston)

1851 The first YMCA in the USA is organized in Boston.

1852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants

1867 First telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck and Co, New York

1876 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula OH

1877 Grand Trunk Railroad workers strike to support fired members of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; strike broken by use of militia and unorganized workers.

1890 300 Sioux Indians are killed by US troops at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

1890 Federal troops massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD; Indian "war" in the west

1890 The "Battle of Wounded Knee" ends the last major Indian resistance to white settlement in America

1891 Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)

1896 First issue of newspaper Le Soleil is published.

1908 patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville WI

1911 San Francisco Symphony formed

1913 First movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn," premieres in Chicago

1921 William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM

1931 Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey

1934 Japan renounces the London Naval Treaty of 1930 and the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.

1937 2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie

1937 Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service

1938 Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, begins

1940 Germany begins the bombing of London during WWII, damaging many buildings, such as historic St. Mary's Cathedral.

1944 Over France RCAF Flight Lt. Dick Audet destroys five German planes in ten minutes.

1945 In Ottawa DND releases World War II casualty statistics; 41,371 Canadians in service killed, 43,178 wounded, 10,844 made prisoners of war, 32 missing in action.

1948 US State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit

1949 Hungary nationalized its industries

1952 First transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY)

1954 Kingdom of the Netherlands, with Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being

1955 Barbra Streisand's first recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13

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