0451 Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens

1275 Scottish forces put down a Manx rebellion in the Battle of Ronaldsway, Isle of Man

1604 The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is First sighted

1775 Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army

1840 First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed

1860 Telegraph line between LA and SF opens

1862 Battle of Perryville, KY-Confederate invasion halted

1865 Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains

1871 Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4ýmiles (10 kmý) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation

1886 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Noble Bachelor" (BG)

1896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks

1912 First Balkan War begins

1916 Piper James C. Richardson (16th Cdn. Infanctry Batt.) winds the Victoria Cross at the Somme, France

1918 Capt. Coulson Norman Mitchell (4th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Cambrai, France

1918 Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans

1919 The first transcontinental air race in the United States begins.

1934 Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son

1935 Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie and Harriet)

1939 Germany annexes Western Poland

1944 "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debut on CBS radio

1945 Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada

1952 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England)

1955 Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, Saratoga (US), launched

1957 Turkish and Syrian border guards exchange fire

1962 Algeria admitted as 109th member of the UN

1962 N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party

1963 Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya

1964 Ringo Starr takes and passes his driving test

1970 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit

1971 John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"

1981 Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral

1982 Poland bans Solidarity

1988 Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage

1990 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters

1990 US doctors Joseph E Murray and E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize

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