1658 Peace of Roskilde between Sweden &Denmark

1702 England's Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III

1706 Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established

1711 Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder

1722 Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia

1746 Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen

1754 Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain

1766 Willem V (18) becomes Governor of United Provinces

1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre Ohio militia kills 90 Indians

1801 British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt

1813 First concerto of Royal Philharmonic

1815 In Charlottetown PEI, Peter Byers, a black, sentenced to death for stealing five pounds; 2 weeks earlier his brother Sancho sentenced to hang for stealing a pound of butter and a loaf of bread

1838 US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes)

1854 US Commodore Matthew C Perry's 2nd trip to Japan

1855 A train crosses first US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls

1855 A train passed over the first railway suspension bridge -- at Niagara Falls, NY.

1855 The Niagara Suspension Bridge opens, linking Canada and the US; the world's first suspension bridge built to carry trains

1861 St Augustine FL surrenders to Union armies

1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal

1862 Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched

1862 Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads VA CSS Virginia, Jamestown &Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress &Monitor

1865 Battle of Kingston NC (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks)

1887 Everett Horton, Connecticut, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes

1887 The telescopic fishing rod, made of steel tubes inside one another, was patented by Everett Horton.

1894 A dog license law was enacted in the state of New York.

1894 New York passes first state dog license law

1898 Richard Straus' "Don Quixote", premieres in Keulen

1901 Samuel Benfield Steele, commanding Lord Strathcona's Horse, arrives back in Halifax with his regiment after fighting the Boers in South Africa.

1904 Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match

1908 Collingwood Elementary (Cleveland) burns, kills 173 kids &2 teachers

1908 Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, New York

1908 First International Women's Day, founded by German labor activist Clara Zetkin.

1910 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris France becomes first licensed female pilot

1913 Internal Revenue Service begins to levy &collect income taxes

1915 The first US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned

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