1714 Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet

1771 Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California

1789 Bastille Day-citizens of Paris storm Bastille prison

1798 Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous & malicious" writing against US govt

1798 The first direct federal tax on the states-on dwellings, land & slaves

1845 The first postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC

1850 The first public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration

1853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan

1853 Pres Franklin Pierce opens first industrial exposition (NY)

1865 The first ascent of Matterhorn

1868 Tape measure enclosed in a circular case patented, AJ Fellows, Ct

1881 On a ranch near old Fort Sumner, New Mexico, the infamous Western outlaw known as "Billy the Kid" was shot to death by Pat Garrett, the sheriff of Lincoln County

1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #370 Modestia

1911 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Phillipines

1914 The first patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Dr R Goddard)

1918 Jay Forrester, a pioneer in computer memory, was born . Forrester studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he later became a professor and researcher. In 1945

1921 Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of killing their shoe company's paymaster

1927 The first commercial airplane flight in Hawaii

1933 East European Jewish immigrants are stripped of German citizenship.

1934 116ø F (47ø C), Orogrande, New Mexico (state record)

1934 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1325 Inanda & #1326 Losaka

1934 NY Times erronously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time

1936 116ø F (47ø C), Collegeville, Indiana (state record)

1942 Captain Charles Hazlitt UPHAM 20 th NZ Battalion, won the second of two Victoria Crosses in Egypt

1947 C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1747 Wright

1950 RE Wayne awarded first Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea

1951 Citation becomes first horse to win $1,000,000 in races

1951 The first color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)

1953 The first natl monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver

1954 117ø F (47ø C), East St. Louis, Illinois (state record)

1954 118ø F (48ø C), Warsaw & Union, Missouri (state record)

1955 2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England

1957 Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270

1958 Iraqi army overthrows monarchy; republic replaces Hashemite dynasty

1958 King Faisal II PM of Iraq, assassinated at Baghdad

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