1184 -BC- Greeks finally captured Troy

1488 Battle of Sauchieburn, Scotland

1509 England's King Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon

1517 Sir Thomas Pert reached Hudson Bay

1770 Capt Cook runs aground on Australian Great Barrier Reef

1788 First British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound, BC

1798 Napoleon Bonaparte takes the island of Malta.

1859 Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada

1864 300' (90 m) of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm

1891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #311 Claudia

1895 Charles E. Duryea receives the first U.S. patent to an American inventor for a gas-powered automobile.

1896 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota authorized

1900 Australians in action at Diamond Hill

1901 Cook Islands annexed & proclaimed part of New Zealand

1903 King Alexander and Queen Draga of Belgrade are assassinated by members of the Serbian army.

1905 Penns Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs)

1920 Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president

1929 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1147 Stavropolis

1930 William Beebe sets a deepwater dive record of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda in a bathysphere (diving chamber).

1932 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1222 Tina

1936 Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia

1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released

1939 King & Queen of England taste first "hot dogs" at FDR's party

1942 US & USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II

1943 An Axis garrison at Pantelleria, in the central Mediterranean area, surrenders after six days and nights of heavy bombing.

1944 First Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, NYC

1947 WW II sugar rationing finally ends

1951 Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal

1957 12 die in a train crash in Vroman Colo

1959 Postmaster General bans D.H. Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover

1960 House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan)

1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested for attempts to integrate Florida restaurants.

1963 Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at U of Alabama

1963 JFK says segregation is morally wrong & that it is "time to act"

1966 French & German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry

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