1661 Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James

1791 The first session of the new French legislative assembly

1800 Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty

1800 U.S. Schooner Experiment captures French Schooner Diana.

1844 Naval Observatory headed by LT Matthew Fontaine Maury occupies first permanent quarters.

1847 Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet

1851 The first Hawaiian stamps issued

1869 The first postcards are issued (Vienna)

1874 Supply Corps purser, LT J. Q. Barton, given leave to enter service of new Japanese Navy to organize a Pay Department and instruct Japanese about accounts. He served until 1 October 1877 when he again became a purser in the U.S. Navy. In 1878, the Emperor of Japan conferred on him the Fourth Class of Rising Sun for his service.

1880 John Phillip Sousa becomes leader of Marine Corps Band

1885 Special delivery mail service begins in US

1886 US mint at Carson City, Nevada closes

1888 A new Chinese Exclusion Act voted by Congress, forbids Chinese workers who have left the United States to return

1889 Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum

1890 The McKinley Tariff Act passed by Congress October 1 increases the average U.S. import duty

1890 Yosemite National Park established

1893 3rd worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi)

1894 Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha, Nebraska

1896 Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Veiled Lodger" takes place (BG)

1898 Henry Huntington buys the LA Railway

1898 Jews are expelled from Kiev Russia

1905 The Grand Trunk assumes control of the 460 mile Canada Atlantic system by agreement dated August 15, 1904.

1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car (costs $825)

1908 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory, beats Walter Johnson 2-1

1910 Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (first state fair)

1918 Australian Light Horsemen take Damascus, Syria

1918 Sgt. William Merrifield (4th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Abancourt, France

1928 First class at school for enlisted Navy and Marine Corps Radio intercept operators (The "On the roof gang")

1928 Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium bicycled 76 miles 504 yards in 1 hour

1936 Gen Francisco Franco establishes the state of Spain

1937 Patrol aviation transferred to Aircraft Scouting Force, a reestablished type command. With change five patrol wings were established as separate administrative command over their squadrons.

1937 Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

1938 Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia)

1939 Winston Chruchill refers to Soviet policy as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"

1940 Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens

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