0924 Edward the Elder of Wessex and Mercia dies and is succeeded by his son Athelstan, 29, who will reign until 940, continuing his father's conquest of the Danelaw north of the Thames-Lea line from the Vikings who have been in Britain since 787

1549 Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium

1695 Establishment of the Bank of Scotland under an Act of the Scottish Parliament,The Three Estates.

1775 The first military hospital approved

1794 African Church of St Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated

1794 Richard Allen organizes Phila's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church

1841 British humor magazine "Punch" first published

1850 Harvard Observatory takes first photograph of a star (Vega)

1856 Sunday school excursion train collides killing 46 children (Phila)

1861 Congress authorizes paper money

1862 US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers

1863 Battle of Honey Springs, largest battle of war in Indian Territory

1864 CSA President Davis replaces Gen Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood

1867 The first permanent university dental school in US, Harvard

1879 The first railroad opens in Hawaii

1897 The first ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from the Yukon

1898 Spanish American War-Spaniads surrender to US at Santiago Cuba

1917 British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor

1918 SS Carpathia. One of the more well known names, more from assisting the Titanic than from her own sinking, she was of 13,603 tons and built for Cunard by Swan and Hunter on the Tyne in 1902. She was attacked by the German submarine U55, 170 miles west of Bishops Rock, while outward bound to Boston, USA, from Liverpool, a service which had been decided would continue to be maintained in wartime conditions. She was hit by three torpdeoes. Five engine room staff were killed directly by the impact and explosions but 215 crew and all 57 passengers were saved and rescued by the sloop HMS Snowdrop.

1935 Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix"

1936 North African detachments of the Spanish Army led by Generalissimo Franco, and supported by Italy and the Nazis, begin civil war agaist the five year old republic.

1938 Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland

1942 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15

1942 Estimated 87.5 cm (34.5") of rainfall, Smethport, Pa. (state record)

1944 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322

1945 Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds first meeting

1946 Mikhailovich resistance leader, executed by Tito regime

1948 C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1685 Toro

1948 Proclamation of the constitution of the Republic of (South) Korea

1954 Construction begins on Disneyland in rural Orange County

1955 Arco, Idaho becomes first US city lit by nuclear power

1955 Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County

1959 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)

1959 Billie Holiday blues singer, dies of liver failure at 44 in NYC

1959 Dr Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old)

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