0310 St Eusebius ends his reign as Catholic Pope

0686 Conon begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1520 Magellan entered the strait which bears his name

1553 Volumes of the Talmud are burned

1868 Severe earthquake at 7 53 AM, centered in Hayward, Calif

1869 First shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore

1872 Germany gives the San Juan Islands to the U.S.

1879 Thomas Edison invents the electric light.

1915 First transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris

1915 Vera Deakin, daughter of former Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, establishes the Australian Red Cross Missing and Wounded Enquiry Bureau in Cairo, Egypt During the remainder of the war the bureau handled thousands of enquiries from Australian families seeking information about wounded and missing soldiers

1917 First Americans to see action on the front lines of WW I

1918 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min

1918 The Mount Royal Tunnel, Montreal, is opened for regular traffic by the Canadian Northern Railway.

1944 Prv. Ernest Alva Smith (The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada) wins the Victoria Cross at the Savio River, Italy

1944 US troops capture Aachen, first large German city to fall

1945 Women in France allowed to vote for first time

1948 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated in Washington DC

1950 Chinese forces occupy Tibet

1959 The Guggenheim Museum is dedicated in New York City.

1962 The 1962 Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) closes.

1966 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfs a school in S Wales

1967 Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm the Pentagon

1969 Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)

1969 Jack Kerouac, novelist, dies.

1970 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea

1970 Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways

1975 Mexico City's first major subway accident takes 26 lives

1975 Venera 9, first craft to orbit the planet Venus launched

1976 American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1989 Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in SF earthquake

1991 24 die in a fire in Oakland Calif

1982 Gerry Adams elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, becoming the first Sinn Fein member to do so

1760 The birth of Katsushka Hokusai, Japanese painter

1772 The birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet and friend of Wordsworth

2005 20th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, celebrations held around the United Kingdom.

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