1651 Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va

1673 Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate

1683 The first settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard the Concord

1701 French make first landing at site of Detroit

1704 Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain

1758 George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess

1783 Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia

1799 William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) is willed the slave York

1813 Sailing Master Elijah Mix attempts to blow up British warship Plantagenet with a torpedo near Cape Henry, Virginia.

1847 Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT

1847 Rotary-type printing press patented by Richard March Hoe, NYC

1866 Tennessee becomes first Confederate state readmitted to Union

1870 The first trans-US rail service begins

1877 The first time federal troops are used to combat strikers

1900 Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed

1915 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die

1918 Sgt. Richard Charles TRAVIS, 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Hebuterne, France

1919 Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded)

1923 Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne

1925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs

1927 Opening of the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres, Belgium The gate records the names of over 56,000 allied soldiers, among them 6,176 Australian soldiers of the First Australian Imperial Force (AIF), missing in the battles near Ypres during the First World War

1929 Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war

1934 The first ptarmigan hatched & reared in captivity, Ithaca, NY

1936 118ø F (48ø C), Minden, Nebraska (state record)

1936 121ø F (49ø C), near Alton, Kansas (state record)

1937 Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro

1942 HMCS St. Croix (Destroyer) sinks the U-90

1942 The Bureau of Aeronautics issued a Planning Directive calling for procurement of four Sikorsky helicopters for study and development by Navy and Coast Guard aviation forces.

1943 Revolt in Italy; Mussolini is deposed by Badoglio.

1944 Following 43 days of naval gunfire and air bombardment, Naval Task Force lands Marines on Tinian.

1944 Russians liberate the Majdanek extermination camp.

1948 Soviets blockades Berlin from the west

1950 V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; first launch from Cape Canaveral

1952 112ø F (44ø C), Louisville, Georgia (state record)

1952 Pres Truman settles 53-day steel strike

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