1492 Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day)

1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins

1585 Spain &Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville

1602 Spanish forces in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale

1678 Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles "Adam und Eva"

1757 British troops occupy Calcutta India

1759 In Montreal, French Intendant Bigot cuts the bread ration in New France to half a pound per person per day.

1776 Austria ends interrogation torture

1776 First revolutionary flag displayed

1788 Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution

1790 Mozart's opera "Cosi fan tutti" premieres, Vienna

1800 Free black community of Philadelphia PA petitions Congress to abolish slavery

1811 US Senator Thomas Pickering is first senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the President of the US)

1814 Lord Byron completes "The Corsair"

1839 First photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)

1842 First US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania

1849 The first gaslit streets in the province of Quebec are lit in Quebec City

1861 Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia

1861 SC seizes inactive Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor

1863 Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends

1870 Construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins

1871 King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25

1872 Canada and the US first share telegraphed weather reports.

1879 British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die

1879 First Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG

1881 Frederick Varley painter, born at Sheffield England; he was a founding member of Canada's "Group of Seven" artists

1882 Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust

1885 General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum

1890 Alice Sanger becomes first female White House staffer

1890 Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny

1893 The first US commemoratives &1st US stamp to picture a woman issued

1896 Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops)

1900 E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7" single-sided records (Montreal)

1903 President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola MI, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black

1905 Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine

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