1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII

1593 Giuseppe Arcimboldo first surrealist painter, dies

1740 Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne

1781 Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of the US

1792 Prussia army moves into French territory

1798 Reestablishment of Marine Corps under the Constitution

1798 US Marine Corps created by an act of Congress

1804 Alex Hamilton killed by VP Aaron Burr in pistol duel near Weehawken

1804 Former U S Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton is mortally wounded at age 49 in a duel at Weehawken, N J with Vice President Aaron Burr, now 48, who has heard of insults directed at him by Hamilton and demanded satisfaction

1804 VP Aaron Burr kills Alex Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken

1812 US invades Canada (Detroit frontier)

1864 Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Wash DC

1868 J C Watson discovers asteroid #100 Hekate

1873 American whisky traders massacre group of Assiniboines; Cypress Hills Massacre forces the Government to send police to the Canadian West.

1888 118ø F (48ø C), Bennett, Colorado (state record)

1888 Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall

1890 Japan holds her first political elections

1901 L Carnera discovers asteroid #472 Roma

1905 Black intellectuals & activists organize Niagara movement

1909 Simon Newcomb celestial mechanics authority, dies

1911 A huge forest fire breaks out in Porcupine district near Timmins, fanned by high winds into a 40 km long front, the fire takes 200 lives; over 3,000 left homeless; burns up 2200 sq. km, destroying the mining communities of South Porcupine, Cochrane and Goldlands.

1916 The first federal grant-in-aid for state roads enacted

1918 M Wolf discovers asteroid #895 Helio

1919 Pay Corps renamed Supply Corps

1921 Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)

1934 FDR became first pres to travel through Panama Canal

1936 Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx & Queens opens

1937 George Gershwin composer (American in Paris), dies at 38

1940 Petty Officer D. A. Hewitt first Canadian killed in the Battle of Britain.

1942 First medical experiments are performed at Auschwitz.

1943 Gunfire from U.S. cruisers and destroyers stop German and Italian tank attack against Army beachhead at Gela, Sicily.

1952 Gen Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate

1954 The first White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Miss

1955 Congress authorizes all US currency to say "In God We Trust"

1955 New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colo with 300 cadets

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