0632 Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era

1567 Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison

1671 Cossack rebel leader Stenka Razin tortured, executed in Moscow

1755 British capture Fort Beaus‚jour, expel the Acadians

1858 Abraham Lincoln accepts the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Illinois.

1858 Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"

1864 Siege of Petersburg & Richmond begins

1871 Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine founded, NYC

1879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theatre NYC

1882 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa

1884 The first roller coaster in the U.S. begins operation at Coney Island, NY.

1893 F.W. Rueckheim introduces Cracker Jack® at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago's First World Fair

1896 Temperture hits 127øF at Fort Mojave, Calif

1902 The Broadway Limited goes into service for the Pennsylvania Railroad to begin a career of more than 75 years on the route between New York and Chicago

1903 Ford Motors incorporates

1904 Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses)

1909 The first US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000

1917 The first Congress of Soviets convene in Russia

1922 Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics

1927 Tommy Armour wins golf's US open

1932 Pres Hoover & VP Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention

1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)

1933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created

1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA

1940 Commuinist govt installed in Lithuania

1940 HMS GRAMPUS,sunk off Augusta, eastern Sicily in Ionian Sea by Italian torpedo boats 'Circe' and 'Clio'.

1941 The first US federally owned airport opened Wash DC

1943 Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)

1947 Pravda denounces Marshall Plan

1947 The first network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"

1948 Start of Malayan Emergency

1949 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pa

1952 Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl is published in the United States.

1955 Pope Pius XII ex-communicated Argentine Pres Juan Peron

1961 Ballet performer Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union while in Paris.

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