0888 Duke Odo becomes king of West-France

1099 Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria

1547 Earl Henry Howard of Surrey sentenced to death

1559 Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey

1610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter

1621 Jan Pieterszoon Coen's fleet sets sail to Moluccas (from Jacarta)

1630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued

1673 Jean Racine's "Mithridate," premieres in Paris

1695 Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland

1733 James Oglethorpe &130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC

1770 De Beaumarchais' "Les Deux Amis," premieres in Paris

1785 John Walter publishes first issue of London Times

1794 Congress changes US flag to 15 stars &15 stripes

1799 President George Washington adds two stars and two stripes to the U.S. flag, honoring the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union. The new stripes were later removed, restoring the total to 13.

1849 Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co

1854 Anthony Foss patents the accordion

1863 Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, New York City NY

1863 Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet

1864 Composer Stephen Foster dies in New York at age 39, while recuperating from loss of blood from a fever-induced fall in his hotel room.

1865 Amphibious attack on Fort Fisher, NC

1869 Colored National Labor Union, first Black labor convention

1869 National convention of black leaders meets in Washington DC

1873 PBS Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana Governor

1874 Battle between jobless &police in New York City NY, 100s injured

1874 Imperial Russian Government issues second decree which amended the one of June 4, 1871. The second decree instituted compulsory military conscription for the German colonists. These two decrees impelled thousands of German Russians to immigrate to North and South America.

1874 US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king

1882 Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal"

1883 Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430

1883 Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende," premieres in Oslo

1888 National Geographic Society founded (Washington DC)

1893 British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader)

1894 Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops

1895 Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband," premieres in London

1898 Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in Paris

1899 The Canadian Northern Railway is formed by the amalgamation of the Winnipeg Great Northern Railway and the Lake Manitoba Railway and Canal Company. William Mackenzie and Donald Mann then proceeded to expand the Canadian Northern system so that by 1915 the system comprised 9,362 miles of trackage.

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