1623 The first breach-of-promise lawsuit Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against Cicely Jordan. He loses

1642 The first compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts

1775 The U.S. Army is founded.

1775 US Army founded

1777 Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag

1777 The Continental Congress, convening in Philadelphia, adopts the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.

1841 The first Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario

1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma

1846 U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaim the Republic of California.

1847 Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide

1850 Fire destroys part of SF

1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia

1864 Battle of Pine Mt, Gen Leonidas Polk killed in action

1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise

1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr, Cambridge, Mass

1900 Hawaiian Republic becomes the US Territory of Hawaii

1906 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #600 Musa

1917 Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I

1919 The first nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Nfld

1923 Pres Harding is first US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore

1928 Republican Natl Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover

1931 French "St Philbert" overturned off St Nazaire France, drowns 450

1934 Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City

1935 Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends

1936 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1490 Limpopo

1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin

1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins the first Caldecott Medal (kid books author)

1940 German forces occupied Paris during WW II

1940 The Nazis open the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Also German troops enter Paris during World War II.

1941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS

1942 The first bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct

1942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released

1943 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that schoolchildren cannot be required to salute the U.S. flag if doing so conflicts with their religious beliefs.

1944 The first B-29 raid against mainland Japan

1945 Rod Argent, rocker (The Zombies-Never Even Thought)

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