0922 The Persian mystic Al-Hallaj (abu al-Mughith-al-Hsayn ibn Mansur), 64, is sentenced to death for heresy after a long trial and is flogged, mutilated, and beheaded March 27 at Baghdad He has supported reform of the caliphate and been seen as a rabble-rouser

1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León sights Florida

1599 Robert Devereux becomes Lieutenant-General of Ireland

1614 Port Royal Nova Scotia Jean de Biencourt, Baron de Poutrincourt 1557-1615 rescues starving survivors of Port Royal and takes them back to France

1625 Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends to throne

1668 English King Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company

1708 English pretender to the throne James III flees

1709 Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded)

1713 Spain losses Menorca & Gibraltar

1721 France & Spain sign Treaty of Madrid

1758 Battle at Emmerich British army floats around France the Rhine

1790 The shoelace invented

1794 Congress authorizes the President "to provide a naval armament" (US Navy)

1802 The Treaty of Amiens March 27 brings a temporary end to hostilities among Europe's warring powers Spain yields Trinidad to Britain but secures Minorca, the Batavian republic cedes Ceylon to Britain, the British give up all their other conquests to France and her allies, but hostilities soon begin again

1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend General Andrew Jackson beats Creek-Indians

1841 First US steam fire engine tested, New York NY

1848 John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster

1849 Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill

1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene (can jet fuel be far behind?)

1860 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)

1861 Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars

1863 President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer

1865 Independent British colony of Kaffaria is incorporated with Cape Colony in South Africa.

1865 Siege of Spanish Fort AL captured by Federals

1866 Andrew Rankin patents the urinal

1866 President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th Amendment

1878 Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect whose designs include the Albert memorial in Hyde Park, London, dies.

1912 First Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington DC

1914 First successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)

1917 Lt. Frederick M. W. Harvey (Lord Strathcona's Horse Cdn.) wins the Victoria Cross at Gyencourt France

1918 Lt. Alan Arnett MCLeod Cdn. (Royal Flying Corp) wins the Victoria Cross for service over France

1920 Film stars Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks wed

1920 Hermann Müller becomes German chancellor (SPD)

1923 Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist whose inventions include the thermos flask and cordite, dies.

1924 Canada recognizes USSR

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