1618 Sir Walter Raleigh, explorer and colonizer, is executed for conspiring against James I.

1682 William Penn lands in what will become Pennsylvania

1682 William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, lands at what is now Chester, PA.

1727 Severe earthquake in New England

1787 The opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)

1808 The last punishment for witchcraft is administered in England.

1811 The first Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans

1863 Intl Comm of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)

1863 The International Red Cross is established.

1867 Mail packets "Rhone" & "Wye" capsizes off St Thomas Virgin Islands

1889 Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC

1894 The first election of the Hawaiian Republic

1901 Leon Czolgosz, who assassinated President McKinley, is put to death in the electric chair.

1904 The first intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder, Texas)

1910 Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game

1912 The size of the U.S. flag is set by presidential order.

1923 "Runnin' Wild" (introducing the Charleston) opens on Broadway

1923 The Republic of Turkey is proclaimed.

1923 Turkey proclaimed a republic (National Day)

1924 "Dixie to Broadway," opens at Broadhurst Theater

1924 The ends of the Holland Tunnel meet under the Hudson River in New York City.

1929 "Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression"

1929 Black Tuesday, where fearful investors crashed the New York Stock Exchange through their panicked selling of stocks, starts the Great Depression in America.

1932 French liner Normandie is launched

1939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)

1940 Sec of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in US history

1942 16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk Russia

1942 Alaska highway completed

1945 The first ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it was patented

1956 Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up

1956 International zone of Tangier returned to Morocco

1956 Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open Straits of Tiran

1956 The Huntley-Brinkley Report nightly newscast premieres on NBC TV.

1957 A hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament)

1959 10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is, announced

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