0422 St Boniface I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

0476 Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in west, is deposed

1609 Navigator Henry Hudson discovers island of Manhattan (or 0911)

1618 "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed

1781 Los Angeles founded in Bahia de las Fumas by 44 settlers, (Valley of Smokes)

1842 Work on K”ln cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus

1862 North Beach &Mission Railway Company organized in SF

1864 Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama

1866 The first Hawaiian daily newspaper published

1870 3rd French republic proclaimed as they overthrow their king

1882 The first district lit by electricty (NY's Pearl Street Station)

1885 The first buffet in the US opens in New York City.

1885 The first cafeteria opens (NYC)

1886 Geronimo is captured, ending last major US-Indian war

1888 George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a US patent for his camera that uses roll film.

1911 Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)

1916 Christy Mathewson &Mordecai Brown final baseball game

1918 US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months

1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)

1927 Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour

1933 The first airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il

1937 Doris Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4 22.4)

1939 The Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated

1943 Australians land near Lae, New Guinea

1945 Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded

1945 US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan

1948 Queen Wilhelmina of the Holland abdicates the throne, citing health reasons.

1949 Marie Robie sinks 393 yd hole-in-one (1st hole in Furnace Brook)

1950 D McI Hodgson of St Ann Bay, Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna

1950 The first helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines (Korea)

1951 NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network

1951 The first transcontinental TV broadcast, by Pres Truman

1953 Florence Chadwick swims the English Channel.

1954 Peter B Cortese of the US achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania

1954 The first passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed

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