1035 King Canute dies at Shaftesbury at age 39 His four sons are unable to control England, and Norway breaks away from Denmark

1439 Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by Parliament

1660 John Bunyan an English Baptist minister is jailed for preaching without a licence

1775 General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks

1859 Jules Leotard performs first Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris). He also designed the garment that bears his name

1867 Mt. Vesuvius erupts.

1880 Mines explosion at Stellerton Nova Scotia in the Foord Pit kills 50

1892 Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pittsburgh Athletic Club, 4-0 in football

1892 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes first pro football player

1905 Martial law is declared in Russian-occupie Poland

1910 First Movie stunt man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon

1912 The bodies of the members of Scott's Antarctic expedition are found.

1915 Britain annexes Gilbert &Ellice Islands

1915 Haiti approves the treaty making it a U.S. protectorate.

1918 Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic

1919 Ross &Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia

1921 Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments

1927 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party, catapulting Josef Stalin to the top.

1927 Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green

1928 British steamer "Vestris" capsizes &sinks off Virginia, kills 110

1933 First known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken

1933 Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany

1936 The first TV Gardening show airs

1936 The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.

1938 Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland

1939 Jews of Lodz Poland are ordered to wear yellow armbands

1940 Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)

1941 Germany's drive to take Moscow halted

1942 North Africa west of Algiers is subdued by Allied forces.

1944 The German battleship Tirpitz is sunk off the Norwegian coast.

1945 Canadian rock musician Neil Young is born

1946 First drive-in bank window established (Chicago)

1946 Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released

1948 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal

1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock AL

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