1619 House of Burgesses Virginia formed, the first elective US governing body

1729 City of Baltimore founded

1733 Society of Freemasons opens first American lodge in Boston

1792 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for first time

1839 Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad

1863 Pres Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot

1864 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of the Crater

1870 Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100

1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Naval Treaty" (BG)

1898 "Scientific America" carried the first magazine automobile ad. The Winton Motor Car Company of Cleveland, OH invited readers to "Dispense with a Horse."

1905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #570 Kythera

1908 Around the World Autombile Race ends in Paris

1909 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League

1909 US Army accepts delivery of first military airplane

1911 J Palisa discovers asteroid #716 Berkeley

1913 Conclusion of the 2nd Balkan War

1916 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #951 Gaspra

1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ

1918 Units of First Marine Aviation Force arrive at Brest, France

1922 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #983 Gunila

1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency

1928 George Eastman demonstrates first color movie

1930 Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's first World Cup in Montevideo

1932 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles

1932 G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #2253 Espinette

1932 The Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles, CA. The Games would revisit Los Angeles -- and the same venues of the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Rose Bowl, etc. -- in 1984.

1938 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1467 Mashona

1941 HMS CACHALOT, sunk after a collision NW of Benghazi, eastern Libya - rammed by Italian torpedo boat 'Papa'.

1941 Japanese aircraft bomb USS Tutuila (PR-4) at Chungking, China; First Navy ship damaged by Axis during World War II.

1942 FDR signs act establishing WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). During World War II, over 80,000 officer and enlisted women served in the WAVES.

1942 FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)

1942 German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia

1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)

1944 Naval Task Force lands Army troops near Cape Opmarai, New Guinea.

1945 Japanese submarine, I-58, sinks USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in Philippine Sea; 316 out of 1199 crew survived.

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