1532 Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca
1676 First colonial prison organized, Nantucket, Massachusetts
1776 Hessians capture Fort Washington, Manhattan
1798 Kentucky becomes first state to nullify an act of Congress
1801 The New York Post newspaper is founded.
1841 N.E. Guerin of NY patents cork-filled life preserver
1864 General William T. Sherman and his Union army troops begin their March to the Sea during the American Civil War.
1894 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
1895 Samuel F. Smith, composer of America, dies.
1901 3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds
1907 Oklahoma becomes 46th state
1908 Arturo Tuscanini begins conducting NY's Metropolitan Opera
1914 The Federal Reserve Banking Act is adopted in the U.S.
1918 Hungarian People's Republic declared
1920 Postage meter first used in US in lieu of postage stamps
1933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
1939 Destruction of Talmudic Academy in Lublin and its huge library, which gave "so much pleasure to its conquerors that it was recalled with glee more than a year later."
1945 Yeshiva College (University), chartered in NY, first US Jewish College
1950 UN gets US government approval to issue postage stamps
1955 First speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) (D.M. Campbell)
1957 Ed Gein butchers last victim
1959 The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music opens on Broadway.
1965 First public announcement about Walt Disney World
1965 Venera 3 launched, first to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)
1966 Dr Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury
