1356 English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers
1777 Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or first Battle of Saratoga
1796 George Washington's farewell address as president
1846 Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning elopes
1848 Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion, moon of Saturn
1849 First commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California
1862 Battle of Luka, Miss
1863 Battle of Chickamauga, Tenn (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat
1864 Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia
1873 Black Friday Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic
1890 Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540
1893 New Zealand grants women the vote
1928 Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC)
1929 Adam West, actor (Batman) born
1934 Bruno Hauptmann arrested for kidnapping the Linbergh baby
1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile women to work in Jewish homes
1941 HMCS Levis (Corvette) torpedoed
1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London
1949 Twiggy, British actress/model born
1955 Juan Peron, president of Argentina since 1946, was deposed and exiled in a military coup,
1957 Bathyscaph Trieste, in a dive sponsored by the Office of Naval Research in the Mediterranean, reaches record depth of 2 miles
1957 The first underground nuclear explosion (Las Vegas Nevada)
1959 Nikita Krushchev is denied access to Disneyland
1968 A baby was born on Golden Gate Bridge yes the event slowed traffic
1970 "Mary Tyler Moore" show premiers
