1593 France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic

1670 Jews are expelled from Vienna Austria

1729 North Carolina becomes royal colony

1759 British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)

1775 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta

1799 French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir

1814 Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British

1860 The first US intercollegiate billard match (Harvard vs Yales)

1866 US Grant named first general of Army

1868 Territory of Wyoming created

1871 Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa

1898 During the Spanish-American War, U.S. forces launched their invasion of Puerto Rico, a 108-mile long, forty-mile-wide island that was one of Spain's two principle possessions in the Caribbean.

1898 The first US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay

1903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes

1909 France's Louis Bl‚riot, makes first airplane flight across Engl Channel

1912 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies

1916 Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks

1918 Annette Adams sworn in as first woman district attorney of US, Calif

1918 Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed)

1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1641 Tana

1936 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #3761

1940 John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hrs 46 mins in the Mississippi R

1943 Benito Mussolini dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II

1943 With American and British forces racing across Sicily, Italian King Emmanuel III, acting under the recommendation of the Fascist Grand Council, dismissed Fascist leader Benito Mussolini and placed him under arrest

1944 The breakout from the Normandy beaches begins.

1944 The first jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)

1946 The first bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show

1946 US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion)

1947 US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Dept of Defense

1947 US Deptartment of the Army created

1950 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroids #1799 Koussevitzky, #1822 Waterman & #2842

1951 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1714 Sy

1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day)

1952 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1788 Kiess

1953 NYC transit fare rises from 10. to 15., first use of subway tokens

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