0240 -BC- Eratosthenes estimates circumference of Earth

1586 English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island NC

1754 Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies &Iroquois indians

1778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge

1846 First baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1

1861 Anaheim Post Office established

1862 Slavery outlawed in US territories

1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France

1865 All slaves in Texas freed

1867 The first Belmont Stakes, Ruthless wins

1868 Maj Gen E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC

1875 Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio

1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Man with the Twisted Lip"

1910 Father's Day celebrated for first time (Spokane, Wash)

1917 After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles &surnames, they take the name Windsor

1928 Amelia Erhart flies across the Atlantic Ocean, the first woman to do so in a 21-hour flight to Wales.

1930 C Jackson &H E Wood discovers asteroid #1595 Tanga

1931 The first photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct

1932 Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR

1934 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created

1938 "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47

1938 Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris

1940 "Brenda Starr," first cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago

1940 HMS ORPHEUS, sunk north of Tobruk, eastern Libya by Italian destroyer "Turbine".

1946 On television for the first time a sports spectacular-Joe Louis vs Billy Conn

1947 The first plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca

1950 A G Wilson discovers asteroid #1980 Tezcatlipoca

1952 "I've Got A Secret" debuted on CBS with Garry Moore as host

1952 1 RAR in action in Jamestown Line, Korea

1953 Albert W Dent, elected president of Natl Health Council

1959 Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Sec of Comm

1961 Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain

1961 US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God

1963 2 Russian space missions return to Earth

1963 Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen

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