1739 Treaty of Belgrade-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks

1755 Fort Ticonderoga, NY opens

1759 British capture Québec during the French & Indian War

1769 Boston Gazette reports first US piano (a spinet)

1793 Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building

1810 Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)

1851 NY Times starts publishing

1881 Chicago Tribune reports on a televide experiment

1882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board)

1888 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Sign of Four" (BG)

1895 Booker T Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise" address

1895 D.D. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes first chiropractor

1911 Britain's first twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown

1914 Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I

1918 Australians attack on the Hindenburg Line

1919 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast

1926 Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250

1927 Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air (16 radio stations)

1930 Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup

1936 On test a new lightweight streamlined passenger train attains an officially recorded speed of 112 1/2 mph on the Canadian Pacific Winchester Subdivision near St. Telesphore, Quebec, with 4-4-4 locomotive no. 3003.

1942 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service

1943 Most of the 2,000 deported Minsk Jews are killed in Sobibor.

1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary Ind schools to protest integration

1948 Ralph J Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine

1957 "Wagon Train" premiers

1959 Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit

1962 Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to the UN

1965 "Get Smart" premiers

1967 Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Aust) in 21st America's Cup

1974 Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die

1975 Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF

1977 Courageous (US) sweeps Australia (Aust) in 24th America's Cup

1977 US Voyager I takes first space photograph of Earth & Moon together

1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect

1979 Steven Lachs, appointed Calif's first admittedly gay judge

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