0936 The German king Henry the Fowler dies at Memleben at age 60 after a 17-year reign in which he has created the Saxon army and founded Saxon town life

1566 Nostradamus French astrologer/physician/prophet, dies in Salon

1644 Battle of Marston Moor; Parliamentary forces defeat royalists

1644 William Gascoigne introduced telescopic sights, is killed at 24

1776 Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are & of right ought to be Free & Independent States"

1777 Vermont becomes first American colony to abolish slavery

1787 de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered

1798 John Fitch American inventor, clockmaker, etc, dies

1808 Simon Fraser completes his trip down the Fraser River , BC, and lands at Musqueam

1843 An alligator falls from the sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm

1847 Envelope bearing the first US 10. stamps, still exists today

1858 Partial emancipation of Russian serfs

1862 Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges

1863 Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)

1864 Gen Early & Confederate forces reach Winchester

1864 Statuary Hall in US Capitol established

1867 The first US elevated railroad begins service, NYC

1881 Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker

1885 Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear

1890 Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies

1890 The Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed by Congress, it curtails the powers of U.S. business monopolies

1894 Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers

1900 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin first airship LZ-1, flies

1900 Retired German general Ferdinand von Zeppelin, 62, launches the first rigid airship

1902 John J McGraw becomes manager of NY Giants (stays for 30 years)

1918 Prime Minister William Morris Hughes, the "Little Digger", addresses Australian troops on the Western Front before the Battle of Hamel, France

1923 Commissioning of Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.

1926 Distinguished Flying Cross authorized by Congress.

1926 US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized

1927 The first American to win Wimbeldon in 20 years (Helen Wills Moody)

1932 FDR makes first presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech

1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1357 Khama

1935 Great Britain boxers beat US team in first intl Golden Gloves

1937 Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean

1937 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1429 Pemba & #1456 Saldanha

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