1607 First Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown

1633 Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican heliocentric views

1684 MA Bay Colony's charter revoked

1768 The first US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer)

1788 US Constitution goes into effect as NH is 9th to ratify

1792 Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil &Mexicana off Vancouver, BC

1805 Great Stoneface Mt found in NH

1858 Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe

1879 F W Woolworth opens first store (failed almost immediately)

1887 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria

1893 The first Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)

1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company

1900 Arthur MacArthur, U.S. military governor in the Philippines, grants an amnesty to Filipino rebels

1906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #601 Nerthus

1913 Tiny Broadwick becomes first woman to parachute from an airplane

1917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded

1919 Germans scuttle their own fleet rather than surrender it to the Allies

1923 Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using the mail to defraud

1933 The first Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans

1939 Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

1940 HMAS Sydney and Stuart bombard Bardia

1941 Allied troops, including Australians, occupy Damascus

1942 129ø F (54ø C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record)

1942 Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa

1943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead

1944 Mantello sends out Auschwitz Protocols through the British Exchange Telegraph and, two weeks later, 500 Swiss newspapers publish the story of 1,715,000 Jews being murdered.

1945 Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to US during WW II

1946 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas

1948 Dr Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrates "long playing record" Columbia commits to 33 1/3 rpm records, plans to phase out 78's

1948 First stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I

1949 H L Giclas discovers asteroid #1886 Lowell

1951 United States Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation awarded to 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, for "extraordinary heroism and outstanding performance" at battle of Kapyong, Korea (24apr 1951)

1952 Wilfred 'Wop' May pilot, World War I air ace, died on this day.. May was being pursued by German ace Manfred von Richthofen when the Red Baron was shot down.

1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m

1963 3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney-disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail

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