1495 The first written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor is the distiller

1638 The first earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass

1774 British govt orders Port of Boston closed

1789 The first US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)

1792 Kentucky becomes the 15th state of the union.

1796 Tennessee becomes the 16th state of the U.S.

1808 The fir1st US land-grant university founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio

1809 Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he walked a « mile round trip from his home

1813 Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"

1813 Captain James Lawrence, commander of the U.S. frigate Chesapeake, coins the phrase "Don't give up the ship," during a losing battle with a British frigate.

1843 It snows in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland Ohio

1843 Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist

1845 Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days

1855 US adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery

1861 The first skirmish in the Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va

1861 US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange

1862 Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines

1864 Battle of Cold Harbour, VA

1866 Renegade Irish Fenians invade Fort Erie Ontario from US

1868 James Buchanan, the 15th president of the U.S., dies near Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

1868 Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin

1875 Ceremony of turning the first sod on the Canadian Pacific Railway on the left bank of the Kamistiquia River in the townsite of Fort William about four miles from the river's mouth.

1877 US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico

1888 California gets its first seismograph

1889 Europe's Orient Express completes arrangements for travel between Paris and Constantinople without change of train

1898 Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha

1905 Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon

1907 -27ø F (-33ø C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)

1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle

1911 The first US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ

1915 The first Zeppelin air raid over England

1915 The National Transcontinental Railway is completed between Moncton and Winnipeg via Edmundston, Quebec and Senneterre. Because of the high cost the Grand Trunk refused to lease the line which was operated as a component of the Canadian Government Railways until the formation of the Canadian National System.

1921 Race riot in Tusla Okla (21 whites & 60 blacks killed)

1933 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago

1938 Superman Comics launched

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