1189 Henry II King of England (1154-89), dies at 56

1415 Jan Hus burned for heresy by the Church at Constance, Germany

1476 Regiomontanus [Johannes M�ller of K�nigsberg], dies

1483 England's King Richard III crowned

1535 Sir Thomas More executed in England for treason

1687 Newton publishes "Principia"

1699 Capt William Kidd arrested in Boston

1747 Birth of John Paul Jones at Arbigland, Scotland.

1757 French troops sent to re-enforce Louisbourg; the Corps Royal, consisting of six officers, four hundred recruits from France, and twenty artillery men, plus two battalions of the Berry Regiment.

1776 Dec of Ind announced on front page of the "PA Evening Gazette"

1777 British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans

1785 Congress resolves US currency named "dollar" & adopts decimal coinage

1798 US law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained,... & removed as alien enemies"

1847 SS Sea King, this paddle steamer which was plying the ferry trade between Belfast and Liverpool when it ran aground on the eastern end of Mew Island, Belfast Lough. It proven impossible to refloat her and she rolled over filled with water and sank, but there was no loss of life.

1853 National Black convention meets (Rochester NY)

1853 William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel," first novel by black American

1854 The first Republican state convention, Ripon, Wisc

1863 Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia

1869 Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr J H Harris, defeated

1885 The first inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur

1886 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers first malted milk to public

1892 Striking steelworkers in Homestead, Pa fire on scabs, killing 7

1892 Three day fire destroys most of St. John's Newfoundland

1894 Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike

1898 Armed Auxiliary Dixie captures Spanish Three Bells, Pilgrim, and Greeman Castle

1903 George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of SF

1906 The Empress of Ireland arrives at Quebec at 05 30 on maiden voyage from Liverpool; with 215 1st-class passengers, 314 2nd-class passengers and 777 3rd-class passengers; best day's run was 460 knots, a record for the North Atlantic service.

1908 CDR Robert Peary sails in Roosevelt from New York to explore Arctic.

1908 Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for the north pole

1911 First naval aviation base established at Annapolis, MD.

1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm opens

1919 British R-34 lands in NY, first airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)

1920 Test and first use of radio compass in aircraft off Norfolk, VA

1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics formed

1924 The first photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England

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