1054 Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days)

1627 Thomas Middleton Elizabethan dramatist, dies (birth date unknown)

1636 City of Providence, Rhode Island form

1653 Barebones Parliment goes into session in England

1696 Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 embarks from Montreal in a canoe flotilla with 2,150 men to travel up the St. Lawrence to Fort Frontenac and mount a new attack on the Iroquois.

1776 American colonies declare their independence from Great Britain

1776 Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain

1777 John Paul Jones hoists first Stars and Stripes flag on Ranger at Portsmouth, NH.

1789 Nootka Sound BC, Estaban Jose Martinez 1742-1798 seizes British ship Argonaut and others for infringing Spanish sovereignty; on Spanish warship Princesa.

1789 The first US tariff act

1801 First Presidential Review of U.S. Marine Band and Marines at the White House.

1802 US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)

1842 First test of electrically operated underwater torpedo sinks gunboat Boxer

1845 Texas Congress votes for annexation to US

1845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond

1848 Francois Rene de Chateaubriand French novelist/politician, dies

1862 Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell

1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)

1863 Confederates surrender of Vicksburg, MS, gives Union control of Mississippi River.

1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces

1865 The first edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published

1866 Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying much of Portland, Me

1873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens

1874 Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed

1875 White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg

1876 The first public exhibition of electric light in SF

1881 Brooker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute

1882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF

1883 Buffalo Bill Cody presents first wild west show, North Platte, Nebr

1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris

1886 The first scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC

1888 The first organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz

1889 Washington state constitutional convention holds first meeting

1893 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #369 Aeria

1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of first US autos at 6 MPH

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