1631 Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler

1775 Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army

1805 Lewis and Clark sighthte Pacific Ocean

1865 London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded

1872 Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; found abandoned 4 weeks later

1874 The first cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by T Nast

1875 Verney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa

1885 The last spike is driven in the first Canadian transcontinental main line at Craigellachie B.C. in the Eagle Pass. Van Horne makes his famous fifteen-word speech "All I can say is that the work has been well done in every way".

1900 Lt. Hampden Z.C. Cockburn (Royal Cdn. Dragoons) wins the Victoria Cross at Leliefontein South Africa

1900 Lt. Richard E.W. Turner (Royal Cdn. Dragoons) wins the Victoria Cross at Leliefontein South Africa

1900 Sgt. Edward J. G. Holland (Royal Cdn. Dragoons) wins the Victoria Cross at Leliefontein South Africa

1907 Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico

1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected President

1917 British capture Gaza Palestine from the Turks

1918 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets

1918 United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed

1928 Herbert Hoover wins the election for U.S. President.

1933 Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports

1939 Germans begin expulsion of Jews from Western Poland.

1940 Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Wash

1944 FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)

1951 Constitution of Jordan passed

1955 Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas

1962 Richard Nixon quits politics-You won't have Nixon to kick around

1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US

1967 LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting

1972 President Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)

1973 NJ becomes first state to allow girls into the little league

1982 Liz Taylor's 7th divorce (John Warner)

1983 Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries

1985 Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice

1991 Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus and retires from Lakers

1994 Intel tells the world of a "Bug Problem" in their Pentium chips

1872 The ship Marie Celeste sails from New York, eventually to be found deserted

1944 Franklin D.Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President

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