1095 Hungary's Ladislas I conquers Croatia and Dalmatia, where he introduces Catholicism, founds the bishopric of Zagreb (Agram), persecutes the heathen, but dies suddenly at age 55 just as he is about to join the crusade

1567 James VI was crowned at Stirling. Regarded as 'The Wisest Fool in Christendom' he succeeded to the English throne in 1603

1588 Attacking Spanish Armada defeated & scattered by English defenders

1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sunk off Florida coast by hurricane

1751 The first international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 mins in England

1773 The first schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH

1786 The first newspaper published west of Alleghenies, Pitts Gazette

1844 New York Yacht Club forms

1851 A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #15 Eunomia

1858 The first commercial treaty between US & Japan signed

1858 US citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan

1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court

1899 Southern Calif Golf Assn formed

1899 The first motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY

1900 In Monza, Italy, King Umberto I was shot to death by Gaetano Bresci, an Italian-born anarchist who had resided in America before returning to his homeland to murder the king

1908 St Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Phila Athletics

1909 The Buick Motor Company acquired the Cadillac Motor Company on behalf of General Motors for $4.5 million on this day in 1909.

1914 The first transcontinental phone link made between NYC & SF

1915 US marines land in Haiti, stay until 1924

1920 The first transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF

1928 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released

1930 115ø F (46ø C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)

1936 RCA shows the first real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show & monologue from Tobacco Road & comedy)

1937 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1431 Luanda

1938 Olympic National Park established

1947 ENIAC, one of the world's first digital computers, was turned back on after receiving a memory implant on this day in 1947

1947 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg Va

1948 King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London

1952 The first nonstop transpacific flight by a jet

1956 Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)

1957 International Atomic Energy Agency established by UN

1957 Jack Paar's Tonight show premiers

1958 Pres Eisenhower signs NASA & Space Act of 1958

1958 Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running

1960 J Schubart discovers asteroid #2000 Herschel

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