1519 Magellan starts first successful circumnavigation of the world

1565 Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Fla and massacre the French

1664 Maryland enacts first anti-amaglmation law to prevent widespread intermarriage of English women and black men

1777 Paoli massacre

1792 French defeat Prussians at Valmy

1797 US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston

1850 Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue

1854 British and French defeat Russians at Alma, in the Crimea

1859 Patent granted on the electric range

1860 First British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (King Edward VII)

1863 Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga, Tenn, ends

1873 Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure)

1877 Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan)

1879 U. Grant comes to SF for elaborate extended visit

1881 Chester A Arthur sworn in as president

1884 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria

1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP

1899 In the Menderes Valley Turkey a 6.9 earthquake caused severe damage to buildings, bridges and railroad and telegraph lines in the Aydin-Denizli area.

1912 Official approval given for the establishment of a military Central Flying School

1943 HMCS ST CROIX (RCN),sunk by a new acoustic torpedoSE of Greenland by 2 torpedoes from German U.305.

1943 Rome is occupied by the Germans. The German Army now controls most of Italy.

1944 Death in action, while filming American troops on Peleliu, of Australian cameraman Damien Parer Parer made what has been considered Australia's most famous war film – Kokoda Front Line The film won an Academy Award and gave international exposure to the experiences of Australian soldiers in 1942 on the Kokoda Track

1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US

1951 First North Pole jet crossing

1954 First National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution

1954 Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy

1954 The first FORTRAN computer program run

1958 Martin Luther King Jr stabbed in chest by a deranged black woman in NYC

1960 UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries and Cyprus (96 nations)

1962 James Meredith is blocked from entering Miss U as its first black

1964 Paramount theater (NYC) presented the Beatles and Steve and Eydie

1966 US Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23

1967 Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38

1968 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536

1970 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample

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