1394 Jews are expelled from France by order of King Charles VI

1630 City of Boston forms

1776 Presidio of SF forms as a Spanish fort

1787 US constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention

1789 William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn

1862 Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of the Civil War

1863 Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada

1873 19 students attend opening class at Ohio State University

1908 Thomas Selfridge becomes first fatality of powered flight

1911 First transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min

1920 National Football League organized in Canton Ohio

1922 Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)

1927 Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco

1928 Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee Florida drowning 1,800-2500

1934 First 33 1/3 rpm recording released (Beethoven's 5th)

1939 HMS COURAGEOUS sunk south west of Ireland by 2 torpedoes from German U.29. 514 men lost from crew of 1,260

1939 Invasion of Poland by the Red Army.

1943 Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station

1949 Steamer "Noronic" burns at pier killing 128 (Toronto Canada)

1953 First successful separation of Siamese twins

1957 Scott Crossfield takes X-15 up for first powered flight

1959 Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan and Korea

1963 "The Fugitive" premiers on ABC TV

1963 Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32

1964 "Bewitched" premiers on ABC TV

1967 "Mission Impossible" premieres on CBS-TV

1967 Mount Washington cog railway train derails, kills 8 (NH)

1968 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon

1972 "M*A*S*H," premiers on TV

1972 BART begins passenger service in SF

1974 Courageous (US) beats Southern Cross (Aust) in 23rd America's Cup

1974 USS Enterprise sailed from San Francisco with VF-1 and VF-2 aboard. This event marked the initial deployment of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, the Navy's newest fighter

1975 Rollout of first space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101)

1978 the Camp David accord is signed by Begin, Sadat and Carter

1980 Solidarity labor union in Poland forms

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