1739 Treaty of Belgrade-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
1755 Fort Ticonderoga, NY opens
1759 British capture Québec during the French & Indian War
1769 Boston Gazette reports first US piano (a spinet)
1793 Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
1810 Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1851 NY Times starts publishing
1881 Chicago Tribune reports on a televide experiment
1882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board)
1888 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Sign of Four" (BG)
1895 Booker T Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise" address
1895 D.D. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes first chiropractor
1911 Britain's first twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown
1914 Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
1918 Australians attack on the Hindenburg Line
1919 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast
1926 Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250
1927 Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air (16 radio stations)
1930 Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup
1936 On test a new lightweight streamlined passenger train attains an officially recorded speed of 112 1/2 mph on the Canadian Pacific Winchester Subdivision near St. Telesphore, Quebec, with 4-4-4 locomotive no. 3003.
1942 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service
1943 Most of the 2,000 deported Minsk Jews are killed in Sobibor.
1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary Ind schools to protest integration
1948 Ralph J Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine
1957 "Wagon Train" premiers
