1664 The British Marines are organized.

1774 The First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1814 British governor-general of India declares war on Gurkhas of Nepal.

1863 Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer

1863 Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva

1868 White terrorists kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish La

1869 The first American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, NY)

1874 All Grand Trunk Railway lines east of Montreal, 542 miles, are converted from 5' 6" to standard gauge.

1876 President sends federal troops to SC

1878 Australian bushranger Ned Kelly shoots and kills three police officers at Stringybark Creek, Victoria.

1881 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Az

1902 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist, dies.

1903 Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross SF Bay

1905 The first Soviet (workers' council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia

1905 Union of Sweden & Norway ends

1916 Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)

1917 Capt. Christopher P.J. O'Kelly (52nd Cdn. Infantry BAtt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium

1917 Lt. Robert Shankland (43 Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium

1917 Prv. Thomas W. Holmes (4th Cdn. Mounted Rifles) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium

1921 Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia

1940 Canadian Pacific's Empress of Britian is bombed and sunk.

1941 US savings bonds go on sale

1942 The U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet is sunk in the WWII Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.

1944 U.S. defeats the Japanese Navy near the Phillipines.

1947 Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India

1949 President Truman signs a measure raising the U.S. minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour.

1950 In London King George VI opens the restored House of Commons chamber, destroyed in a 1941 bombing raid

1951 Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden

1955 Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as pres

1956 UN's International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved

1956 Vietnam promulgates its constitution

1957 USSR fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov

1957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting

1958 Pan Am flies its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York to Paris in eight hours, 41 minutes.

1962 Beatles tape "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"

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