1599 Caravaggio's first public commission for paintings

1798 Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt

1803 Irish nationalist Robert Emmet, 25, leads a rebellion against the British He spoke with Bonaparte and Talleyrand last year in an effort to obtain French support, his small band of followers commits two murders and other acts of violence July 23 in a move to capture the viceroy, but the rioters are quickly dispersed Emmet escapes, goes into hiding, is captured August 25, tried by a special court, and hanged September 20

1803 Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin

1808 Spanish forces at Bailen force a French army of 18,000 under Gen Pierre Antoine Dupont, 43, to surrender July 23

1852 The first interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio

1871 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #114 Kassandra

1877 The first telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii completed

1877 The first US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations

1880 The first commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Mich

1895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #405 Thia

1900 Pan-African Congress meets in London

1904 Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo

1908 A Kopff discovers asteroids #666 Desdemona & #667 Denise

1909 M Wolf discovers asteroid #683 Lanzia

1914 Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I

1916 Australians enter the action in the battle of the Somme at Pozières and Mouquet Farm, France

1920 Kenya becomes a British crown colony

1925 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his first of 23 career grand slammers

1931 Ashmore & Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia

1931 France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics

1932 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1246 Chaka

1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)

1938 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1468 Zomba

1940 "Blitz" begins, all-night raid on London

1944 US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II

1947 First Navy all jet squadron (VF-17A) receives its first aircraft (FH).

1947 The first US Navy air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, RI

1948 Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President

1948 USS Putnum (DD-757) evacuates U.N. team from Haifa, Israel and becomes first U.S. Navy ship to fly the U.N. flag.

1950 USS Boxer sets record crossing of Pacific to bring aircraft, troops, and supplies to Korea at start of the Conflict

1952 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (Natl Day)

1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph

1958 The first 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords

1958 USS Nautilus (SSN-571) departs Pearl Harbor for first submerged transit of North Pole.

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