1693 The first woman's magazine "The Ladies' Mercury" published (London)

1743 English defeat French at Dettingen

1806 Buenos Aires captured by British

1847 NY &Boston linked by telegraph wires

1857 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #45 Eugenia

1862 Day 3 of the 7 Days-Battle of Gaines' Mill

1864 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

1867 Bank of California opens doors

1884 J Palisa discovers asteroid #237 Coelestina

1884 The SS Caesarea, sank 10 miles off Cap de la Hague, Channel Islands, after being in a collision with the Strathesk on a voyage from Southampton.

1890 Canadian boxer George 'Little Chocolate' Dixon 1870-1909 wins world bantamweight crown.

1914 US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia

1915 100ø F (38ø C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record)

1917 Ultonia, built for Cunard by Swan Hunter at Wallsend on Tyne, of 8845 tons, she was sunk by the German submarine U53 190 miles south west of the Fastnet Rock. Two people were killed.

1922 Newberry Medal first presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)

1929 The first color TV demo (NYC)

1930 P Parchomenko discovers asteroid #1166 Sakuntala

1934 Federal Savings &Loan Association created

1940 800 Jews are burned alive inside Great Synagogue. 1,200 others die in shooting

1940 HMS WREN, sunk 10 miles of Aldeburgh, eastern England in North Sea - by German bombers.

1940 USSR returns to the Gregorian calendar

1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs that came from from a sub off NY's Long Island

1944 476,000 are deported to Auschwitz since May 15.

1944 Cherbourg, France captured by Allies

1949 W Baade discovers asteroid #1566 Icarus

1950 Pres Truman orders Air Force &Navy into Korean conflict

1950 RAAF bomber squadron sent to Malaya to assist the British in counter insurgency work against communist guerrillas during the Malayan Emergency

1950 UN Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea

1950 US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam

1951 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1588 Descamisada

1954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala

1954 The first atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)

1955 First automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)

1957 390 die by Hurricane Audrey in coastal La &Tx

1957 In the USSR (Russia) a quake resulted in 1,200 dead no more details (national security?)

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