1493 Columbus' 2nd expedition to the New World
1621 First newspaper in England debuts.
1625 Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico
1683 Jews are expelled from all French possessions in America
1742 Faneuil Hall opens to the public
1780 Benedict Arnold escapes to the British after his attempt to betray West Point.
1789 Congress creates the Post Office
1789 Congress' first Judiciary Act, Attorney General & Supreme Court
1789 The U.S. Congress passes the First Judiciary Act, which establishes the Supreme Court and the position of Attorney General.
1838 Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
1841 Sarawak obtained by Britain from Sultan of Brunei
1845 The first baseball team is organized
1852 A new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated
1853 The first round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)
1862 Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
1865 James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF
1869 Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
1869 The Black Friday Wall Street panic occurs when financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the gold market.
1883 National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky
1895 The first round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
1897 A new double track steel arch bridge is completed by the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company and the Niagara Falls International Bridge Company. The upper floor of the new structure is leased to the Grand Trunk Railway.
1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Red Circle" (BG)
1927 NHL's Toronto St Patricks become the Maple Leafs
1929 Lieutenant James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle pilots a biplane over Mitchel Field in New York to make the first all-instrument flight.
1929 Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in the first all-instrument flight
