1609 Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan island
1709 English, Dutch & Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet
1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace."
1777 Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British
1786 Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce
1789 Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of the Treasury
1814 Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; Americans defeat British
1853 First electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos
1875 First newspaper cartoon strip
1886 Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup
1910 First commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1914 Two Australian battalions land near Rabaul and occupy the German colony on New Britain, off north-eastern New Guinea during WWI.
1919 US marines invade Honduras
1922 British mandate of Palestine begins
1923 The ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Tower
1926 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
1929 SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
1930 Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
1936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1941 Charles Lindbergh, charges "the British, the Jewish & the Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the US into WW II
1941 FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight
1942 HMCS Charlottetown lost the Gulf of St. Lawrence
1944 FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at the 2nd Quebec Conference
1944 Holland is liberated by the Allies.
1946 First mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
