0452 Italy invaded by Attila the Hun

0536 St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope

0570 Relgion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca

0632 Mohammed, founder of Islam, dies

1783 Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption

1786 First commercially-made ice cream sold (NY)

1815 39 German states unite under the Act of Confederation

1845 Andrew Jackson, seventh US president, dies in Nashville.

1861 People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union

1861 Tennessee secedes from the Union and joins the Confederacy.

1862 Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia

1869 Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents a vacuum cleaner

1875 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #146 Lucina

1887 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #268 Adorea

1889 Cable Cars begin service in LA

1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (BG)

1900 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the 6 Napoleons" (BG)

1915 William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State

1917 Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School

1918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered

1923 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #995 Sternberga

1928 The first US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)

1937 World's largest flower blooms in NY Botonical Garden, 12' calla lily

1940 Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced

1940 HMS GLORIOUS sunk west of Lofoten Islands in Norwegian Sea by 11in gunfire of German battlecruisers 'Scharnhorst' and 'Gneisenau'.1,207 men lost, c40 survivors. Escorting destroyers 'Acasta' and 'Ardent' also sunk

1941 Allied forces (largely Australian) enter Syria

1942 Eisenhower is appointed Commanding General of the European Theater of Operations.

1942 Tobruk in the African Desert falls to Germans; Axis claims 25,000 prisoners.

1944 FO K.O.Moore pilot of a liberator bomber sunk two U-Boats off the coast of France

1947 Lassie makes its broadcast debut on the ABC radio network.

1948 "The Milton Berle Show" premiers on NBC TV

1948 John Rudder becomes first negro commissioned officer in US marines

1950 General Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces, South West Pacific Area, World War Two, made a Field Marshal, the only Australian appointment to this rank in Australian military history

1953 Cluster of 6 tornaodes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113

1953 Panmunjon negotiators sign agreement on POWs

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