1614 2nd parliment of King James I, disolves passing no legislation

1654 Louis XIV crowned king of France

1692 Porte Royale Jamaica slides into harbor after earthquake

1769 Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Kentucky

1775 The United Colonies change their name to the United States.

1776 Richard Lee (VA) moves Decl of Independence in Continental Congress

1839 Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed

1860 Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, SF

1863 Mexico City captured by French troops

1864 Abe Lincoln renominated for Pres by Republican Party

1866 Irish Fenians raid Pigeon Hill, Qu‚bec

1887 Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Wash DC

1896 G Harpo &F Samuelson leave NY to row the Atlantic (takes 54 days)

1898 Social Democracy of America party holds first national convention, Chic

1901 M Wolf discovers asteroid #471 Papagena

1903 Professor Pierre Curie reveals the discovery of the element Polonium.

1905 Norway dissolves union with Sweden (in effect since 1814)

1909 Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens

1912 St Pius X encyclical "On the Indians of South America"

1912 US army tests the first machine gun mounted on a plane

1914 The first vessel passes through the locks at the Panama Canal.

1917 Battle of Messines, Belgium

1917 Crpl Samuel Frickleton, 3rd Battalion, 3rd NZ (Rifle) Brigade, won the Victoria Cross at Messines, Belgium

1924 George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit

1929 Vatican City becomes a soverign state

1930 NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"

1932 Some 7,000+ war veterans march on Washington, D.C. demanding bonus pay for their service in World War I.

1938 Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat is first flown

1939 The first king &queen of England to visit US, George VI &Elizabeth

1941 Palmach units take part in an Allied invasion in Syria.

1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island

1943 Professor Clauberg in Auschwitz reports a sterilization rate of 1,000 women a day, mostly on Jewish women from Greece.

1954 First microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)

1955 "The $64,000 Question" premiers on CBS TV

1955 The first President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)

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