1452 First book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible
1630 First execution in America-J Billington hanged in Plymouth, MA
1659 Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during Creligious services
1659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
1777 Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance
1791 Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premiers in Vienna
1809 The Treaty of Fort Wayne negotiated by Gen William Henry Harrison obtains 3 million acres of Indiana Territory Indian land on the Wabash River for the United States
1846 Anesthetic ether used for first time (Dr Wm Morton extracts a tooth)
1857 US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland and Jarvis Is. south of Hawaii
1867 Midway Islands formally declared a US possession
1877 First US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club)
1878 First Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii
1880 Henry Draper takes that first photograph of the Orion Nebula
1885 Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate
1887 Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure "The Five Orange Pips" (BG)
1887 Volunteer (US) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America's Cup
1895 France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar
1918 Lance Corporal E A Corey, a stretcher bearer with the 55th Battalion, wins a third bar to his Military Medal, first won on 15may1917 The winning of four Military Medals is a unique feat in the Australian Army or any other Commonwealth service
1918 Prv. James Crichton, 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Crevecoeur, France
1929 First manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
1934 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1935 Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" premiers in Boston
1936 Intl Commission of the Straits (Dardanelles and Bosphorus) ends
1938 Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany
1939 First televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at NYC)
