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

1957 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched

1963 John Lennon utters his infamous "Rattle your jewelry" line

1965 Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH)

1966 Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works

1967 Landing craft from USS Navarro (APA-215) rescue 43 men from British SS Habib Marikar aground on a reef at Lincoln Island in the Tonkin Gulf.

1971 USS Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636) launches a Poseidon C-3 missile in first surface launch of Poseidon missile.

1978 Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U

1979 500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)

1980 Ronald Reagan (R) beats President Jimmy Carter (R) by a landslide

1981 Columbia shuttle launch scrubbed with 31 secs remaining

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