1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed

1611 John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication

1774 Rhode Island becomes first colony to prohibit importation of slaves

1777 Marquis de Lafayette lands in US

1789 Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington

1798 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California

1866 House passes 14th Amendment

1871 Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador

1873 J C Watson discovers asteroid #132 Aethra

1879 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #198 Ampella

1886 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC

1888 Congress creates the Department of Labor

1889 2 feet of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming

1890 Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out &named

1895 �mile Levassor wins first Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)

1898 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital

1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners &Christians

1907 Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2øF in Tamarack Calif

1910 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes first 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila

1910 William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia

1927 Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC

1930 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece

1933 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized

1933 First sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)

1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1349 Bechuana

1940 HMS ODIN, sunk off southern Italy in Gulf of Taranto by torpedo and gunfire of Italian destroyer 'Strale'.

1940 Paris evacuated before the German advance

1941 Battle for Jezzine

1942 First V-2 rocket launch, Peenem�nde, Germany; reached 1.3 km

1944 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks

1945 Australians capture Brunei

1946 First transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland

1948 Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th

1953 Tim Allen (real name Tim Allen Dick) born.

1955 Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France

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