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

1927 Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt)

1928 Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet

1930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America

1930 The Detroit-Windsor traffic tunnel opens lining the Canadian and American cities

1931 First commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured

1935 George II returns to Greece ®ains monarchy

1936 President FDR wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)

1942 Battle of El Alamein ends in the North African desert in WWII

1942 William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago

1952 Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas

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