1394 Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
1620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
1631 First Protestant Missionary arrives in America
1665 The Treaty of Westminster restores Acadia to France from England
1679 Great panic occurs in Europe over the close approach of a comet
1762 Spain acquires Louisiana
1783 Washington orders the Continental Army disbanded
1839 First opium war-2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
1868 First black elected to Congress (John W Menard, Louisiana)
1868 Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
1874 James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti
1883 Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)
1885 Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes &businesses
1888 Jack the Ripper kills last victim
1896 William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for President
1899 Jim Jeffries retains heavyweight boxing title over Sailor Tom Sharkey
1900 First national automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
1903 Panama Declares Its Independence from Colombia
1908 William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan
1914 HM Submarine D2, mined off Great Yarmouth. Five crew saved by the trawler Faithfull.
1916 Treaty establishes British suzerainty over Qatar
1917 First class mail now costs $0.03
1918 Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolves
1918 Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
1921 Actor Charles Bronson born
