1737 Earthquake kills 300,000 & destroys « of Calcutta India

1776 Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain, New York. Although defeated, the American flotilla delayed the British advance and caused it to fall back into winter quarters.

1776 Brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British

1797 British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, the Netherlands

1811 The Juliana, the 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation

1864 Slavery abolished in Maryland

1865 Pres Johnson paroles CSA VP Alexander Stephens

1890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded

1890 The First 100 yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens 9-4/5 secs, Wash DC)

1899 The Boer War begins in South Africa

1918 Lt. Wallace L. Algie (20th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Cambrai, France

1919 The first transcontinental air race ends

1922 The first woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)

1923 German mark falls to 10 billion per œ, 4 billion per $

1927 Lou Gehrig elected MVP

1932 The first political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC

1936 "Professor Quiz", 1st radio quiz show premieres

1942 Battle of Cape Esperance begins In two-day battle, American task force stops Japanese attack on Guadalcanal and sinks two Japanese ships while losing only USS Duncan (DD-485).

1945 Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung

1945 Typhoon hits Okinawa, damaging many Navy ships.

1950 Task Force 77 Aircraft destroy North Korean vessels off Songjin and Wonsan and north of Hungham.

1958 2nd US Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back

1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100 m

1962 2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII

1962 Pope John XXIII opens Vatican council

1962 The first appearance of a Gabor sister on the Merv Griffin Show

1963 Navy medical team from Norfolk, VA begins massive inoculation program to safeguard against outbreak of typhoid in the wake of Hurricane Flora.

1967 Operation Coronado VI began in Rung Sat Zone

1967 Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)

1968 Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours

1968 Launch of Apollo 7, the first U.S. 3-man space mission, commanded by CDR Walter Schirra, JR. USN. MAJ Ronnie Cunningham, USMCR served as Lunar Module pilot. The mission lasted 10 days and 20 hours. Recovery was by HS-5 helicopters from USS Essex (CVS-9).

1968 Panama revolts

1969 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next 2 days

1971 Frank McGee becomes news anchor of the Today Show

1972 Prison uprising at Washington DC jail

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