0068 Nero, the Emperor of Rome, commits suicide

1456 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1534 Jacques Cartier first sails into mouth of St Lawrence River

1628 First deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Mass

1732 Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe

1772 First Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion

1784 John Carroll appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions

1789 Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I

1790 The first book copyrighted under the constitution, Philadelphia Spelling Book

1851 San Francisco Committee of Vigilance forms

1862 Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp

1863 Battle of Brandy Station, Va

1868 First meeting of the Board of Regents, University of California

1869 Charles Elmer Hires sells his first of many root beers (Phila)

1870 Author Charles Dickens dies in England.

1883 First commercial electric railway line begins operation (Chicago El)

1898 China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years

1907 K Lohnert discovers asteroid #635 Vundtia

1919 Canadian National Railway Company is incorporated.

1928 First aerial cross of the Pacific lands in Brisbane Australia

1931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1197 Rhodesia

1931 Goddard patents rocket-fueled aircraft design

1934 The Donald Duck cartoon, The Wise Little Hen, released

1940 Norway surrenders to the Nazis during World War II

1941 7th Division crosses Litani River

1943 Congress passes "pay-as-you-go" income tax

1944 23 puppies (record litter) born to Lena, a foxhound, Ambler, Penn

1946 19 guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire. (Dubuque Iowa)

1949 Mrs Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes first woman treasurer of US

1953 100 people die when a tornado strikes Worcester, Massachusetts.

1953 About 100 die in Worcester MA tornado

1954 Joseph Welch asks Sen Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" during Senate-Army hearings

1955 100ø F-Hottest day in Seattle Washington

1957 Anthony Eden resigns as British PM

1959 The first ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct)

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