1307 William Tell shoots apple off his son's head
1421 Zuider Zee floods 72 villages, killing an estimated 10,000 in Netherlands
1477 The First English Printing press
1497 Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope
1755 Worst quake Massachusetts Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report
1776 Hessians capture Fort Lee, NJ
1803 Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French
1883 Standard time zones established by railroads in US and Canada
1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
1905 Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway
1909 US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya
1911 Britain's first seaplane flies
1912 Albania declares independence from Turkey
1918 Latvia declares independence from Russia
1923 Alan Shepard, Jr. first American in space is born
1927 CBC boradcaster Knowlton Nash is born
1928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in"Steamboat Willie"
1929 Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places
1936 Germany and Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco
1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
1938 Canadian author Margaret Atwood is born
1940 George Matesky Mad Bomber's first time bomb
1952 The feasibility of using a helicopter as an aerial minesweeper was demonstrated in the first of a series of tests conducted by VX-1 pilots flying an HRP-1 helicopter off~ Panama City, Fla.
1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for first powered flight
