1298 English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk

1461 Charles VII king of France (1422-61), dies at 58

1587 2nd English colony established on Roanoke Island off NC

1587 English settlers establish a colony on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.

1686 City of Albany, NY chartered

1763 Catherine II issued her second manifesto inviting foreigners to settle in Russia. It spelled out the conditions under which they could immigrate and granted special rights and privileges. Large numbers of German peasants accepted the invitation.

1775 George Washington takes command of the troops

1796 Cleveland, Ohio, is founded by General Moses Cleaveland.

1802 Frigate Constellation defeats 9 Corsair gunboats off Tripoli.

1802 Marie-Fran‡ois-Xavier Bichat a founder of histology, dies

1812 Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain

1812 French troops are defeated by the British at the Battle of Salamanca in Spain.

1854 J R Hind discovers asteroid #30 Urania

1864 Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman & suffers terrible losses

1898 Belgica crew see first sunrise in 1600 hrs-1st to endure Antarct winter

1905 Body of John Paul Jones moved to Annapolis, MD for reburial.

1905 Phila Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St Louis Browns, 6-0

1906 The Grand Trunk Railway changes from left to right hand running on double track sections. The change involved considerable alteration in crossovers, switches and semaphore signals.

1908 W Lorenz discovers asteroid #665 Sabine

1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm closes

1916 A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in SF killing 10

1916 Ten people are killed when a bomb explodes during the Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco.

1917 Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian PM

1917 Four members of the Australian Army Nursing Service – Sisters Cawood, Deacon and Ross-King and Staff Nurse Derrer – win Military Medals for rescuing patients trapped in a burning Casualty Clearing Station at Trois Arbes, France These were the first bravery awards won by Australian nurses in action

1917 M Wolf discovers asteroids #879 Ricarda, #880 Herba & #881 Athene

1918 Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park

1923 Walter Johnson becomes the first to strikeout 3,000

1925 Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher

1926 105ø F (41ø C), Waterbury, Connecticut (state record)

1926 108ø F (42ø C), Troy, New York (state record)

1930 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1306 Scythia

1930 H Van Gent discovers asteroids #1666 van Gent, #1752 van Herk & #1945 Wesselink

1933 Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida," NYC-1st negro prima donna in US

1933 Wiley Post completes first round-the-world solo flight

1934 Bank robber John Dillinger is shot to death by FBI agents outside of the Biograph Theater in Chicago.

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