1000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland"

1446 Korean Hangual alphabet devised

1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony

1635 Roger Williams (no relation to the famous country singer some 300 years his junior), is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious views.

1701 Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven

1701 The Collegiate School of Connecticut is chartered in New Haven. It was later renamed to Yale University.

1776 Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay

1776 Spanish missionaries first settle in what is now San Francisco, California.

1855 Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass patents 1st calliope

1871 The Great Chicago Fire runs out of fuel and burns out.

1876 The first 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires

1877 American Humane Association organized in Cleveland

1877 Locomotive Countess of Dufferin arrives at St. Boniface on a barge towed by the steamer "Selkirk". It was brought in by the contractor Joseph Whitehead to work on the Selkirk - Emerson line and was the first locomotive in Manitoba and on the Prairies.

1888 Public admitted to Washington Monument

1888 The Washington Monument opens to the public for the first time.

1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Red-Headed League"

1903 11" rainfall in 24 hrs (NYC)

1914 Antwerp, Belgium falls to the Germans.

1915 Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st pres to attend a world series game (World Series #12)

1930 The first transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls

1934 King Alexander of Yugoslavia, by Georgief, a Croatian terrorist

1936 Generators at Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) begin transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.

1936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA

1943 HMS CARLISLE (AA), damaged 9th October 1943, Eastern Mediterranean, south west of Rhodes in Scarpanto Strait by German Ju87 divebombers.

1946 The first electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50

1947 The first telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane

1958 Pope Pius XII dies, 19 years after elevation to the papacy

1960 Howard Glenn NY Titan, dies of injuries sustain in this day's game

1961 Tanganyika becomes independent within the British Commonwealth

1961 Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)

1962 Lulu McConnell comediene (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 80

1962 NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m

1963 Uganda becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth

1965 Beatles' "Yesterday," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks

1966 Balt Orioles sweep LA Dodgers, in 63rd World Series

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