0079 The city of Pompei is buried by an erupting Mt Vesuvius

1210 King John of England begins imprisoning Jews

1512 Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, is exhibited

1604 William Shakespeare's tragedy"Othello" is presented

1611 Shakespeare's romantic comedy "The Tempest" is presented

1623 Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings

1755 Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000

1765 Stamp Act went into effect in the British colonies

1776 San Juan Capistrano Mission founded in California

1784 Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette and his descendants

1800 John Adams is the first President to live in the White House

1861 Gen George B McClellan made general in chief of Union armies

1863 Fortifications built on Angel Island (San Francisco Bay) by troops

1870 US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)

1884 The Harbour Grace Railway, the first railway on Newfoundland, is opened for traffic between St. Johns and Harbour Grace. The last spike was driven by Prince George, later to become King George V, who was at the time visiting Newfoundland as a midshipman aboard H.M.S. Cumberland.

1885 First train service established over CP between Montreal and Winnipeg via Ottawa, Sudbury and the Lakehead.

1894 Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris

1911 Introduction of compulsory military training

1914 The First Division of the AIF sails from Albany, Western Australia, for Egypt

1918 97 die in NYC subway's worst accident

1918 Sgt. Hugh Cairns (46th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Valenciennes, Belgium

1922 Ottoman Empire abolished

1928 Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km

1929 Lundy, part of the British Isles, issue their own stamps

1932 Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program

1936 Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an "Axis"

1939 The first animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed

1939 Trans Canada Air Lines starts daily coast-to-coast flights

1940 The first US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa

1943 Dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area

1944 Final mass gassing at Auschwitz, 73 women are murdered. The remainder of the prisoners, approximately 2,300, are deported to Ravensbruck and Bergen-Belsen to meet the growing slave labor demand.

1945 Australia ratifies Charter of United Nations

1945 First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson

1946 West German state of Niedersachsen formed

1947 UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ and UK

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