0891 Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France

1267 Ramban (Nachmanides) arrives in Jerusalem to establish Jew community

1614 Vincent Fettmich expells Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany

1661 The first Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James

1666 Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed upside the fire cleanns up th ecity

1739 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal

1772 Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California

1799 Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)

1807 Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is found innocent of treason.

1849 California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey

1858 The first transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month

1859 RC Carrington &R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare

1862 Severe action at Chantilly, Virginia

1863 RR &ferry connection between SF &Oakland inaugurated

1865 Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery

1870 Napoleon III captured at Sedan

1874 Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia

1878 The first female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)

1897 Subway service in Boston, MA begins.

1905 Alberta &Saskatchewan become 8th &9th Canadian provinces

1906 Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time

1906 Papua placed under Australian administration

1911 M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km

1914 St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd

1916 Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)

1918 Baseball season ends due to WW I

1918 Prv. Claude J. P. Nunney (38th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Drocourt-Quèant, France

1918 Sgt. John Gilroy Grant, 1st Battalion, Wellington Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Bancourt France

1918 SS City of Glasgow, a Ellerman Lines ship of 6457 grt and built in 1906, she was torpedoed by German submarine UB118 21 miles east of Tuskar Rock in St George's Channel whilst en-route from Manchester to Montreal in ballast. 12 of the crew were lost.

1918 US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920

1922 NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billards"

1923 Earthquake strikes Tokyo &Yokohama, kills 106,000

1923 Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan, are rocked by an earthquake, killing over 50,000 people.

1923 US beats Australia in tennis, for their 4th straight Davis Cup

1928 Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king

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