1098 Christian Crusaders seize Antioch, Turkey

1539 Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain

1621 The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands, better known as New York

1770 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in Calif

1781 Jack Jouett rides to warn Jefferson of British attack

1789 Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada)

1851 The first baseball uniforms worn. Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt &blue long trousers

1856 Opening of Windsor Branch Railway from Windsor to Windsor Jc., N.S. by Nova Scotia government. This was the oldest constituent of the Dominion Atlantic Railway.

1860 Comanche, Iowa completely destroyed by 1 of a series of tornadoes

1861 First Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV

1864 Battle of Cold Harbour continues

1875 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #144 Vibilia ‘ Adeona

1888 "Casey at the Bat" published (SF Examiner)

1889 The first CP train arrives in Saint John, NB from Montréal marking the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway as a coast to coast railway.

1900 The International Ladies' Garment Workers Union is founded

1916 ROTC established by Act of Congress

1918 Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional

1919 Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks

1921 A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado

1924 Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service

1925 Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes first flight (It is the first airship with enclosed cabin)

1929 Border dispute between Peru &Chile resolved

1929 First trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center (electric light)

1934 Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted

1935 The French steamship Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours

1937 The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, marries Wallis Warfield Simpson.

1941 Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn

1948 Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore

1948 The 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory

1949 Dragnet is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles)

1949 The first negro to graduate from US Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown)

1957 Howard Cosell's first TV show

1960 Seven helicopters of HS-4 from Yorktown rescued 53 merchant seamen from the British freighter Shun Lee which was breaking up on Pratas Reef, 500 miles northwest of Manila

1960 Test launchings of Bullpup air-to-surface missiles from a Marine Corps HUS-1 helicopter were successfully completed at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River.

1962 Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130

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