1879 Gilmore Garden (NYC) renamed Madison Square Garden

1883 A rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge is in danger of collapsing triggers a stampede that kills 12

1883 Rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse caused a stampede that kills 12

1889 The brassiere is invented (good or bad?)

1895 W G Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days

1896 First car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)

1908 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System

1908 First federal workmen's compensation law approved

1908 Paris advocate E Archdeacon is first passenger in a airplane

1908 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City UT authorized

1909 National Conference on the Negro is held

1909 Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of first home in Tel-Aviv

1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua

1913 First Balkan War ends with the, Treaty of London

1913 New country of Albania is formed

1921 Memorial to Captain Eddie Grant, killed in WWI, unveiled at Polo Grounds

1921 Salzburg Austria votes to join Germany

1922 Latvia & Vatican sign accord

1922 The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated today in Washington, D C , by Chief Justice William Howard Taft

1924 Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists

1925 British mariners shoot on demonstrators

1933 Patent on invisible glass installation

1935 Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies

1937 Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago, 10 die

1941 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government

1941 First anti semitic measures in Serbia

1941 German capture Kreta

1941 The Canadian passenger ship SS Nerissa torpedoed off Ireland 73 Cdn. Army personnel lost

1942 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WWII

1942 Reichsführer Himmler arrives in Prague

1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor

1943 French General De Gaulle arrives in Algiers

1943 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians

1944 Transport NR75 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany

1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (New York) 42 die

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