1620 Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth England to the New World
1628 Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
1839 Great fire in NY
1848 National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)
1853 Women's Rights Convention met (NYC)
1862 Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland
1863 After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC
1869 Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania
1869 The first westbound train arrives in SF
1873 Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
1876 Race riot in Charleston SC
1876 Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed
1899 Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
1901 US President William McKinley is shot and mortally wounded by an asailant at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY. Sep 06,
1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Creeping Man" (BG)
1905 Atlanta Life Insurance Company established
1909 Word received, Adm Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier
1913 The first aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe P‚goud-France)
1914 Battle of the Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
1920 Detroit station WWJ airs the first pro boxing match to be broadcast on radio.
1920 The first radio broadcast of a prizefight
1923 Publisher Edward P.Dutton dies.
1939 South Africa declares war on Germany during WWII.
1941 All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
1941 Jews of Vilna Poland are confined to a ghetto
