1849 Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis MO

1851 Saint John New Brunswick, the launch of the sailing ship Marco Polo; reputed to be the fastest ship in the world.

1853 Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election

1862 Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities

1863 Battle of Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi

1864 Battle of Adairsville GA, Union forces Confederates to retreat

1871 Indians fighter General Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches

1872 Bohemian Club incorporated

1875 In the first running of the Kentucky Derby today, Aristides wins in 2 37 75

1876 7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Fort Lincoln

1877 Edwin T Holmes installs first telephone switchboard burglar alarm

1881 Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington DC

1881 Revised version of New Testament

1883 Buffalo Bill Cody's first wild west show premieres in Omaha

1884 Alaska becomes a US territory

1890 Comic Cuts, first weekly comic paper, published in London

1899 Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid England

1900 British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony)

1900 Mafeking in South Africa relieved

1909 White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks

1910 Canada sets the designs for its 1 cent to fifty cent coins.

1915 Last liberal British Government of Asquith falls

1915 National Baptist Convention chartered

1916 British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), first introduced

1920 The first De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol

1921 Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union

1921 President Harding opens (via telephone) first Valencia Orange Show

1926 Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton

1926 German Government of Marx takes power

1928 9th modern Olympic games open in Amsterdam

1932 Congress changes the name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico"

1937 Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier

1938 Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy

1939 British issue the Palestine "White Paper" fixing the upper limit to 75,000 Jews to be admitted into Palestine over the next five years.

1939 King George VI 1895-1952 and Queen Elizabeth disembark at Wolfe's Cove from the CP ship Empress of Australia to start a month-long royal visit to Canada

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