1497 Antitax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath

1611 Henry Hudson &son set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers

1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II

1772 Slavery outlawed in England

1775 First Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)

1775 The first Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)

1807 British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812

1807 The British man-of-war Leopard fires on the U S frigate Chesapeake and removes four alleged British deserters

1808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak

1815 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)

1847 Doughnut created

1848 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for Pres

1849 Stephen C Massett opens courthouse using only piano in Calif

1851 Fire destroys part of San Francisco

1868 Arkansas re-enters US

1870 Congress creates Department of Justice

1873 Prince Edward Island joins Canada

1874 Dr Andrew T Sill, of Macon, Missouri, finds science of osteopathy

1910 First airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland

1911 King George V of England crowned

1918 Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68 (Ivanhoe Illinois)

1925 G Shajn discovers asteroid #1058 Grubba

1936 Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee &survives

1936 Virgin Islands receives a constution from US

1937 Joe Louis KOs James Braddock for the heavyweight boxing crown

1938 Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2 04 of first round at Yankee Stadium

1940 France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarmed

1941 "Operation Barbarossa," German invasion of the U.S.S.R., gets launched.

1941 Finland invades Karelia

1941 Germany declares war on Soviet Union during WW II

1944 FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)

1945 Beaufort, Borneo, occupied

1945 Japanese resistance on Tarakan ends

1947 12" rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO)

1949 Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for the boxing title

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