1576 Spanish defeat Walloons & take Antwerp Belgium
1842 Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill
1845 The first nationally observed uniform election day in US
1854 Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island
1861 University of Washington founded in Seattle
1862 The Gatling gun patented (Richard J Gatling)
1864 HMS Racehorse in the China Seas. The wreck of this ship, with the loss of a hundred lives, near Chefoo, at the southern entrance of the gulf of Pecheli, the Racehorse, 4, screw gun vessel, 200 horse power, and 695 tons, was built for the Admiralty by Messrs. Wigram and Co.,
1866 Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia
1867 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall
1873 Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents the gold crown
1875 "Pacific" collides with "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 dies
1879 James & John Ritty patent the cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in their Dayton, Ohio saloon
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for first presidential term
1890 Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate
1922 Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt
1923 Alfred Heineken (Heineken beer) born
1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross elected first US female gov (Wyoming)
1939 1940 Olympics awarded to Helsinki, Finland
1939 First air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill
1939 US allows "cash & carry" arms sales during WW II
1946 UN Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization formed
1949 "One Man's Family" premieres on TV
1952 Eisenhower (R) elected 34th President beating Adlai Stevenson (D)
1956 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest
1956 Israel captures Straits of Tiran from Egypt
