0905 The Holy Roman Emperor Louis III is surprised after having subdued the Lombards He is blinded and sent back to Arles
1588 English fleet defeats Spanish armada
1667 The Treaties of Breda signed, ended the second Anglo-Dutch war after a Dutch fleet has broken the chain in England's Medway River, reached Chatham, and captured the flagship Royal Charles.
1796 Robert Burns Scottish poet, dies
1823 After pirate attack, LT David G. Farragut leads landing party to destroy pirate stronghold in Cuba.
1831 Belgium gains independence from Netherland, Leopold I made king
1836 The first Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie & St John, Quebec
1846 Mormons found first English settlement in Calif (San Joaquin Valley)
1861 Battle of first Bull Run
1861 The first major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins
1880 Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY League merge to form National Association of Colored Woman
1898 Spain cedes Guam to US
1904 Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH
1919 Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)
1928 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1096 Reunerta
1930 US Veterans Administration established
1931 Reno race track, becomes first in US to use daily double wagering
1934 113ø F (45ø C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)
1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1358 Gaika
1940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
1942 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Va
1944 Invasion and recapture of Guam begins.
1944 US forces free Guam of Japanese invaders
1946 In first U.S. test of adaptability of jet aircraft to shipboard operations, XFD-1 Phantom makes landings and takeoffs without catapults from Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1948 Arshile Gorky abstract expressionist, dies at 43
