0956 Hugh the Great dies 2 months after becoming effective master of Burgundy

1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of California and heads north

1745 American colonials capture the French fort Louisburg on Cape Breton Island

1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)

1789 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly

1850 Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)

1856 Republican Party opens its first national convention in Philadelphia

1863 Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back the Union in Virginia

1863 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer)

1870 USS Mohican burns Mexican pirate ship Forward

1882 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa

1885 Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'

1895 US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan

1897 William Frank Powell, NJ educator, named minister to Haiti

1898 Navy Hospital Corps established

1909 A Kopff discovers asteroid #682 Hagar

1919 "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premiers

1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become first woman to fly the Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)

1936 Himmler is appointed chief of the German Police.

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

1940 Chief of Naval Operations asks Congress for money to build two-ocean Navy

1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II

1942 HMS WILD SWAN, sunk in the North Atlantic off south west Ireland (c 50-00'N, 11-00'W) - by German Ju88 bombers.

1942 The first WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)

1944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland

1945 Australians land at Weston, North Borneo

1945 Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)

1946 SW Bell innaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis

1950 The first kidney transplant (Chicago)

1953 East Berlin workers rise up to protest low wages and bad conditions. Soviet tanks mow down the strikers with machine gun fire, ending illusions that communism is a workers' paradise.

1953 Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for the next day their 14th anniversary

1954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends

1957 Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)

1962 Brazil Beats Czechosolakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago

1963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools

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