1608 City of Québec founded by Samuel de Champlain

1754 George Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years' War)

1775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass

1778 British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa

1806 Michael Keens exhibits first cultivated strawberry

1814 Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada

1816 French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas

1839 The first state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students

1841 John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus

1848 Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)

1852 Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif)

1861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY

1863 Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North

1871 The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company introduced the first narrow-gauge locomotive. It was called the "Montezuma".

1878 John Wise of Lancaster, PA was the pilot for the maiden flight of a dirigible.

1886 The first NY Tribune printing using first commercial linotype machine

1890 Idaho admitted as 43rd US state

1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Black Peter" (BG)

1897 G. A. Lancaster files claim on Eldorado Creek, Yukon, later known as Gold Hill.

1898 Joshua Slocum 1844-1909, from Briar Island, Nova Scotia, becomes the first person to complete a solo circumnavigation of the earth.

1898 US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba

1901 In Calgary Alberta, W.F. (Billy) Cochrane drives first automobile in Calgary; a steam-powered Locomobile, steered by a tiller rather than a wheel.

1904 First run of the Ocean Limited passenger train between Montreal, Que. and Halifax. N.S. This is the longest running train in Canada having operated continuously over the same 840 mile route.

1909 Cobalt Ontario a forest fire in Porcupine District leaves one-third of Cobalt's 6,000 residents homeless.

1913 Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird confirmed to have crossed the Atlantic

1915 US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934

1916 The first of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore (4 die)

1920 Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England

1930 Veterans Administration created

1932 John McGraw retires from baseball

1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1367 Nongoma

1934 FDIC pays off first insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL

1937 Del Mar race track opened in sunny Del Mar, California.

1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler

1939 Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech

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