1809 Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston

1853 Gadsden Purchase 45,000 mi (120,000 km) by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million. Area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico

1853 The US purchases 30,000 square miles of land from Mexico in what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona. The Gadsden Purchase cost the US $10 million.

1854 Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, first in US, incorporated in NYC

1875 Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms

1896 Montreal Victorias beat Winn Victorias 6-5 for the Stanley Cup

1897 Province of Zululand annexed to Natal colony

1903 600 people die in a fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago.

1903 602 die as flames swept through Iroquois Theater in Chicago

1903 American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans

1906 Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy

1907 Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball

1908 Montreal Wanderers loses to Edmonton but retain Stanley Cup (4th of 1908). Cup is won by total points in a 2 game series

1911 Sun Yat-sen elected first President of Republic of China

1911 Sun Yat-sen is elected as the first president of the Republic of China.

1915 HMS Natal, blew up and sank at her moorings in the Cromarty Firth, Scotland, over 400 lives lost. Sources differ about the date with some giving it as 31st. The cause was speculated about at the time and sabotage was feared by some but the official enquiry put it down to a cordite explosion which becomes unstable when overheated. Other ships had suffered a similar fate, and this is the most likely explanation.

1922 Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR

1922 Vladimir Lenin establishes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

1924 Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems

1927 Japan dedicates first subway in the Orient (route under 2 miles long)

1929 Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates

1935 Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia

1936 The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike at the Fisher Body Plant in Flint, Michigan.

1938 Electronic television system patented, VK Zworykin

1944 King George II of Greece, renounces his throne

1947 King Michael of Romania abdicates the throne, but makes it clear that he is forced out by Communists.

1948 Cole Porter's musical Kiss Me, Kate opens on Broadway.

1952 Tuskegee Institute reports 1952 as first yr in 71 with no lynchings in US

1953 Electronics manufacturer Admiral unveils the first color television set for consumers, priced at a modest $1,175.

1959 The George Washington, first ballistic missile sub commissioned

1963 Congress authorizes the Kennedy half dollar

1967 Beatles' "Hello Goodbye," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks

1968 -48ø F (-44ø C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)

1972 President Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks

1972 The US stops the bombing of North Vietnam.

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