1307 William Tell shoots apple off his son's head

1421 Zuider Zee floods 72 villages, killing an estimated 10,000 in Netherlands

1477 The First English Printing press

1497 Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope

1755 Worst quake Massachusetts Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report

1776 Hessians capture Fort Lee, NJ

1803 Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French

1883 Standard time zones established by railroads in US and Canada

1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii

1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama

1905 Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway

1909 US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya

1911 Britain's first seaplane flies

1912 Albania declares independence from Turkey

1918 Latvia declares independence from Russia

1923 Alan Shepard, Jr. first American in space is born

1927 CBC boradcaster Knowlton Nash is born

1928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in"Steamboat Willie"

1929 Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places

1936 Germany and Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco

1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined

1938 Canadian author Margaret Atwood is born

1940 George Matesky Mad Bomber's first time bomb

1952 The feasibility of using a helicopter as an aerial minesweeper was demonstrated in the first of a series of tests conducted by VX-1 pilots flying an HRP-1 helicopter off~ Panama City, Fla.

1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for first powered flight

1960 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration

1961 US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed

1964 J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"

1967 British government devalues œ from US equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40

1970 Russia lands self propelled rover on the Moon

1975 The province of Ontario pass a manditory seatbelt law and lowers the speed limit on highways to conserve energy

1976 Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 years of dictatorship

1978 Mass suicide in Peoples temple in Jonestown Guyana

1980 Conn Smythe founder o fthe NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs dies at age 85

1987 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station

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