1609 Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan island

1709 English, Dutch & Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet

1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace."

1777 Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British

1786 Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce

1789 Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of the Treasury

1814 Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; Americans defeat British

1853 First electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos

1875 First newspaper cartoon strip

1886 Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup

1910 First commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)

1914 Two Australian battalions land near Rabaul and occupy the German colony on New Britain, off north-eastern New Guinea during WWI.

1919 US marines invade Honduras

1922 British mandate of Palestine begins

1923 The ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Tower

1926 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu

1929 SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system

1930 Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles

1936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam

1941 Charles Lindbergh, charges "the British, the Jewish & the Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the US into WW II

1941 FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight

1942 HMCS Charlottetown lost the Gulf of St. Lawrence

1944 FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at the 2nd Quebec Conference

1944 Holland is liberated by the Allies.

1946 First mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation

1950 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio

1950 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence

1950 First typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited

1951 Florence Chadwick becomes first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours,19 minutes

1952 West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews

1954 First Miss America TV broadcast

1960 The 17th Olympic games close in Rome

1961 Bob Dylan's first NY performance

1962 Beatles cut "Love Me Do" and "PS I Love You"

1964 Gillette's 20 year contract with MSG & ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at the Cleve Auditorium

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