1493 Columbus' 2nd expedition to the New World

1621 First newspaper in England debuts.

1625 Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico

1683 Jews are expelled from all French possessions in America

1742 Faneuil Hall opens to the public

1780 Benedict Arnold escapes to the British after his attempt to betray West Point.

1789 Congress creates the Post Office

1789 Congress' first Judiciary Act, Attorney General & Supreme Court

1789 The U.S. Congress passes the First Judiciary Act, which establishes the Supreme Court and the position of Attorney General.

1838 Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law

1841 Sarawak obtained by Britain from Sultan of Brunei

1845 The first baseball team is organized

1852 A new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated

1853 The first round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)

1862 Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal

1865 James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF

1869 Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold

1869 The Black Friday Wall Street panic occurs when financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the gold market.

1883 National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky

1895 The first round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)

1897 A new double track steel arch bridge is completed by the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company and the Niagara Falls International Bridge Company. The upper floor of the new structure is leased to the Grand Trunk Railway.

1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Red Circle" (BG)

1927 NHL's Toronto St Patricks become the Maple Leafs

1929 Lieutenant James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle pilots a biplane over Mitchel Field in New York to make the first all-instrument flight.

1929 Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in the first all-instrument flight

1934 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium

1940 The Cdn. Navy received 6 former US Navy "4 stackers" destroyers and renames them HMCS Annapolis, Columbia,Niagra, St. Clair ST. Croix and St. Francis

1941 9 Allied govts pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter

1942 3,000 Tuczyn Jews are killed after resisting and escaping a Nazi attack. Only 15 survive.

1942 General Blamey assumes command of Allied Land Forces in New Guinea

1942 HMS SOMALI lost north of Iceland after being stuck by 1 torpedo from German U.703 on 20th in Greenland Sea.floundered while being towed by 'Ashanti', went down in bad weather, 45 men lost

1948 Mildred Gillars, charged with treason as Nazi radio propagandist Axis Sally, pleads innocent in Washington, DC.

1950 "Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel

1952 Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5

1954 Tonight Show premiers on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later)

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