1187 Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders

1535 Jacques Cartie‚r discovers Mount Royal (Monte‚al)

1608 Hans Lippershey offers Dutch gov't a new invention, the telescope

1608 Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey

1608 The first telescope is demonstrated by Hans Lippershey of Middelburg.

1780 John Andre British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold), dies at 30

1788 HMAS Sirius sets out from Port Jackson, Australia, to Cape Town for provisions.

1792 Baptist Missionary Society forms in London

1839 New Zealand comes under jurisdiction of the Governor of New South Wales

1853 Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land

1870 Italy annexes Rome and Papal States; Rome made Italian capital

1879 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Musgrave Ritual" (BG)

1889 First Pan American conference (Washington DC)

1901 First submarine commissioned by the British Navy is launched from Barrow, north-west England.

1910 First 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)

1917 HMS Drake, a Armoured cruiser of 14,000 tons built in 1902 torpedoed by U79. She was beached by her Captain, S H Radcliffe in Church Bay on the north coast of Ulster. All the crew was consequently saved.

1919 Pres Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke

1934 Royal Indian Navy is formed

1935 Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

1937 FDR visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State

1941 6 Parisian synagogues are bombed

1942 First self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago

1942 RMS"Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338 in the Atlantic

1943 Orders are given for the expulsion of all Danish Jews. Thanks to Danish underground operations, only 415 Jews are captured by the Germans. 7,000 are evacuated to Sweden.

1950 The comic strip "Peanuts" first appears, in 9 newspapers

1955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premiers on Television

1956 First atomic power clock exhibited-NYC

1959 Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS

1962 Frank Lovejoy actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48

1970 Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30

1971 Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race

1972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105

1973 Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi who won 6 Olympic gold medals, dies

1973 Paul Hartman actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction), dies at 68

1980 Larry Holmes retains WBC heavweight title defeating Muhammad Ali

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