0374 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

0600 Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze

1349 Jews are expelled from Burgsdorf Switzerland

1486 Diet of Frankfort

1512 Battle at Valeggio French troops beat Venetianen

1559 Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy

1641 English king Charles I accept Triennial Act

1655 Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor Johan de Witt marries Wendela Bicker

1659 First known check (£400), it is now (on display at Westminster Abbey

1666 Netherlands & Brandenburg sign treaty

1677 Earl of Shaftesbury arrested/confined in London Tower

1741 Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine (2nd US Magazine) begins publishing

1742 Earl of Wilmington becomes British premier

1746 Government forces under Lord Louden attempted to capture Prince Charles Edward stewart at Moy Hall but were surprised and routed by a handful of Jacobites. The only death in the Rout of Moy was Duncan Bam MacCrimmon, Hereditory Piper to the MacLeods of Dunvegan, who took the Hanoverian side in the 45.

1760 Native American hostages killed in Ft Prince George SC

1771 Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy

1777 Messier adds M53 to his catalog (globular cluster in Coma Berenice)

1804 Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, with volunteers from frigate Constitution and schooner Enterprise, enters Tripoli harbor by night in the ketch Intrepid to burn the captured frigate Philadelphia. Decatur's raid succeeds without American losses. England's Lord Nelson calls this "the most daring act of the age."

1815 USS Constitution captures British Susannah

1838 Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions

1838 The British Parliament passes an act suspending the constitution in Lower Canada.

1840 American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1846 Battle of Sobraon ends first Sikh War in India

1860 Dutch Rochussen/Van Bosse government resigns

1862 Ft Donelson captured by General Grant (1,400 confederates surrender)

1864 Battle of Mobile, AL - operations by Union Army

1868 The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is founded

1878 The Silver Dollar was introduced as a U.S. coin.

1880 American Society of Mechanical Engineers founded, New York NY

1881 In Montreal Quebec George Stephen signs charter and incorporates Canadian Pacific Railway and in 2001 the company said it will break up into it's parts

1883 "Ladies Home Journal" begins publication

1894 British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast

1899 Pelham Warner scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (England vs South Africa Johannesburg)

1900 The first Chinese daily newspaper in US publishes first issue (Chung Sai Yat Po-San Francisco)

1903 -59º F (-51º C), Pokegama Dam MN (state record)

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