1178 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon

1630 Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop

1638 A lunar eclipse becomes the first astronomical event recorded in US

1672 First recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass

1788 The Virginia colony including Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, entered the United States of America as the tenth state.

1788 Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify US constitution

1798 US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens

1844 John Tyler took Julia Gardiner as his bride, thus becoming the first U.S. President to marry while in office.

1862 Day 1 of the 7 Days begins with fighting at Oak Grove

1864 Petersburg Campaign-Federals begin digging tunnels under Reb lines

1868 FL, AL, LA, GA, NC & SC readmitted to US

1876 Indian Chief Crazy Horse won the twohour Battle of Little Bighorn, Montana, wiping out the army of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. Custer, who led the battle against the Sioux Indian encampment, was among the 200+ casualties. Ironically, the only survivor of Custer’s forces was a horse, Comanche.

1888 Republican Convention, in Chicago, nominates Benjamin Harrison

1910 The U.S. Congress authorized the use of postal savings stamps.

1919 First advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13)

1921 Jack Hutchinson becomes first American to win golf's British Open

1924 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1023 Thomana

1929 Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)

1938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40. per hour

1940 HMCS FRASER (RCN, ex 'Crescent), lost off Gironde Estuary, western France by collision with RN cruiser 'Calcutta'.

1941 FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination

1942 British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)

1944 Flight-lt. David e. Hornell (Royal Cdn. Air Force) wins the Victoria Cross while on Sea Patrol over th North Sea

1945 Miri oilfields in Sarawak recaptured

1948 Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 to reatain championship

1950 Israeli airline El Al begins service

1950 Korean conflict begins; N Korea invades S Korea

1951 The first commercial color TV program was seen. It was a four-hour-long show presented on CBS and carried in New York City, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, D.C. Arthur Godfrey, Faye Emerson, Sam Levenson and Ed Sullivan starred in the TV milestone. An interesting side note to this event is that the public didn’t own any color TVs at the time and CBS, itself, owned only about three dozen sets.

1953 86ø F in Anchorage Alaska

1956 51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" & "Stockholm" (Cape Cod)

1961 Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)

1962 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5 to 4) that prayers in public schools violated the First Amendment to the Constitution regarding the separation of church and state.

1966 Beatles' "Paperback Writer," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks

1966 Kosmos 122, first Soviet weather satellite, launched

1967 400 million watch Beatles "Our World" TV special

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