0455 Gaiseric & the Vandals sack Rome

0575 Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

0657 St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1797 First ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhead)

1851 Maine becomes the first state in the Union to enact a law prohibiting alcohol

1851 The first US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)

1857 James Gibbs, Va., patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine

1858 Donati Comet first seen named after it's discoverer

1862 Gen Robert E Lee takes command of the Confederate armies of E VA & NC

1864 Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2

1865 At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders the Trans-Mississippi Dept

1866 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces

1873 Ground broken on Clay St (SF) for world's first cable railroad

1886 Grover Cleveland is first to wed during presidency (Frances Folsom)

1886 U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in a White House ceremony.

1897 Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead at age 61, is quoted by the New York Journal as saying "The report of my death was an exaggeration."

1899 Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings

1902 2nd statewide initiative & referendum law adopted, in Oregon

1910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea

1910 The first roundtrip flight over the English Channel (C.S. Rolls, England)

1913 The first strike settlement mediated by US Dep't of Labor-RR clerks

1917 Capt. William Avery Bishop Cdn. (Royal Flying Corps.) wins the Victoria Cross for service over France

1924 The U.S. Congress grants citizenship to all American Indians.

1930 Sarah Dickson becomes first woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati

1930 The first baby born on a vessel passing through Panama Canal

1933 WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air

1936 Gen Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua

1941 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis claims baseball's "Iron Horse," Lou Gehrig, in New York. The malady is now often referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease.

1943 99th Pursuit Squadron flies first combat mission (over Italy)

1946 Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)

1949 Transjordan renamed Jordan

1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey

1953 Queen Elizabeth II of Britain is crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.

1959 Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," SF

1964 Rolling Stones first US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass

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