0390 -BC- Battle of Allia-Gauls inflict heavy casualties on Romans

1100 Jerusalem's Godfrey of Bouillon dies at age 39 after successful forays against the Seljuk Turks that have taken him as far as Damascus

1536 Pope's authority declared void in England

1716 Jews are expelled from Brussels Belgium

1753 Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slaveholder in Framingham Mass

1775 Continental Congress resolves that each colony provide armed vessels

1779 Commodore Abraham Whipple's squadron captures 11 prizes in largest prize value of Revolutionary War.

1792 John Paul Jones dies in Paris, France

1813 U.S. Frigate President captures British Daphne, Eliza Swan, Alert and Lion.

1814 British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc)

1853 The first train to cross the US-Canada boundary, Portland, Me.- Montréal, PQ

1872 Britain introduces secret ballot voting

1904 P Gotz discovers asteroid #538 Friederike

1914 US army air service first comes into being, in the Signal Corps

1918 US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I

1920 Naval aircraft sink ex-German cruiser Frankfurt in target practice.

1925 First edition of Mein Kampf is published.

1931 The first air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched

1932 US & Canada signed a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway

1936 Spanish Civil War begans, Gen Francisco Franco led uprising

1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif

1940 The first successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct

1942 Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, first jet fighter, takes first flight

1942 The first legal NJ horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens

1943 German submarine shoots down K-47, the first and only U.S. airship lost during WW II.

1947 President Harry S. Truman delegates responsibility for the civil administration of former Japanese mandated island to the Secretary of the Navy.

1947 US receives UN trusteeship over Pacific Islands

1951 Jersey Joe Walcott KOs Ezzard Charles in 5 for heavyweight belt

1951 Uruguay accepts its constitution

1955 The first electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially

1959 The first black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright)

1964 Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln)

1965 Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit

1966 Bobby Fuller rocker (I Fought the Law), found dead

1966 Gemini 10 launched

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